by SJZC Administrator | Mar 23, 2024
You don’t have to have it all figured out. Well, maybe the next few steps. Maybe the plan for today, maybe even the plan for next year. But when it just plain looks like things are going to turn out badly, it’s time to throw out the future and just put one foot in...
by SJZC Administrator | Feb 10, 2024
Every weekday morning after our morning zazen the small group of us have tea around the kitchen table at the Zen center. The guiding teacher (usually Soten) offers a prompt for discussion. This past Monday I offered the prompt, “If you were to substitute another...
by SJZC Administrator | Jan 20, 2024
From Shinei… How do you meet your life? This life right now? Are you meeting it as a task to be accomplished? A problem to fix? As an opponent to brace yourself against? Right now, you have a choice. Take a deep breath, relax the body and drop all notions of...
by SJZC Administrator | Jan 6, 2024
You can hear the day’s activity start up in the dark of mid-winter dawn, even before the dim light of the emerging day swells slowly in the cloud-choked sky. This moment on Earth, filled with the clouds of war, flood, and growing violence brings us all to the...
by SJZC Administrator | Mar 27, 2018
Dear Sangha (Community), As I prepare to take refuge in the buddha, the dharma, and the sangha next month in the Jukai (or 16 bodhisattva precepts) ceremony and make my commitments as a buddhist publicly to you, I have been studying the meaning of the precepts and...
