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...
by SJZC Administrator | Dec 5, 2016
by Mary Leigh Burke When people asked the Buddha about metaphysical issues (is there a God? Is the soul reborn?) he replied with some variation of: “I don’t speculate on these things. I teach only suffering and the end of suffering.” So some people...
by SJZC Administrator | Aug 28, 2016
One of my most deeply rooted, and least helpful, habits was berating myself when I thought I had said or done something “wrong.” At one point I stumbled across a loving-kindness meditation in Ezra Bayda’s Beyond Happiness (see below.) I began...
