Encouraging Words

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Blog – Standing Your Ground, Maggie Gluek

‘Encouraging Words from the Teacher’ was published in the June/July 2017 Newsletter: An oft told story in these parts—and recently told at the autumn sesshin– is that concerning Hsueh-feng, snowed in with his dharma brother and mentor Yen-tou at a place called Turtle Mountain. While Yen-t’ou snoozed, Hsueh-feng spent most of the time doing zazen. “What are you doing sitting like a

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Zazenkai – Jane Andino musician

Musican and Zen practitioner Jane Andino has called her talk ‘Singing and Dancing are the voice of the Law’. Jane discusses and plays an excerpt of one of her compositions related to this quote from Hakuin’s ‘Song of Zazen’. She also explores ‘what is thought that is no-thought?’ and Tung Shan’s Five Modes.

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Blog – Questions of Resurrection & Rebirth, Subhana Barzaghi

Chapelle du Rosarie: Questions of Resurrection and Rebirth An essay by Subhana Barzaghi, first published in Mind Moon Circle Spring 2016 edition. – One of my primary reasons for coming to the old historic village of Vence which is located on the  slopes of the Côte d’Azur France was to see and to sit in the Chapelle du Rosarie, also

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