by Abby Mushin Terris | Dec 9, 2023
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Have you heard this before? In Zen we are always saying that no one else can awaken to our life for us. We don’t need to be anyone else. We cannot be anyone else. There is no need to be anyone else. The Buddha extended the...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Dec 2, 2023
While some of us are sitting sesshin this coming week, whenever you think of us, please stop for a moment and take a mindful breath, or several. Look around and appreciate the blessings that you are receiving this very moment. And reflect on what you are offering this...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Nov 25, 2023
Monday is a full moon. This day is set aside traditionally for the Fusatsu ceremony, where we contemplate our basic life intention. We’ll be celebrating this on Sunday. We look at what ways we continue to be led by our habits of mind and activities that are...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Nov 18, 2023
Dogen offers his unique guidance for awakening when he instructs: “See the Buddha’s golden light in every hour of your day, cultivate doubt about your view of time and being, investigate how it is that particular being-time co-exists with all being-time, and know that...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Nov 11, 2023
The first of the perfections is dana, the Sanskrit word for generosity. Dana is a natural expression of an open heart and spacious mind. Nothing material need be added necessarily. We give things, time, attention, Dharma. And most fundamentally this refers to how we...
