by SJZC Administrator | Jan 27, 2025
We hear so much about practicing with breath, counting the breath, following the breath. It’s not uncommon especially when we first take up Zen practice to hear these words with half a heart, partial attention. We can easily be breathing half-heartedly while the other...
by SJZC Administrator | Jan 20, 2025
During this month we’re concentrating on the teachings on Vow. What habits do you want to cultivate that support a wish to be happy, and to bring the light of Dharma clarity into the world of interbeing, in your ordinary relationships. We live into our practice not...
by SJZC Administrator | Dec 30, 2024
Happy New Year! Always a new day to awaken to Bodhi mind. What flows here and now is one life in service to all beings. Our inheritance from a long line of ancestors, ancient and current, inspires us and points out the Way. They have offered us many methods to clear...
by SJZC Administrator | Dec 23, 2024
Discerning light in the dark and dark in the light. This is the season where we can especially appreciate this way of living beyond opposites of light and dark, good and bad. We might think of them as an either/or proposition, but when we are free to the true balance...
by SJZC Administrator | Dec 16, 2024
The precepts. Beyond precept study, reflection, and discussion, we emphasize the practice of zazen to clarify the precepts. Why? The precepts are about living in integrity, harmoniously, in tune. But what are we tuning with? We are tuning with respect to our deeper...
