by Abby Mushin Terris | Oct 28, 2023
It’s not always possible to know what will result from our actions. Our practice is to recognize when we are distracted by our own mind states, that are colored in holding extreme views, being caught in thinking and in rigid categories. When we fall into habitual...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Oct 21, 2023
I’d like to share with you words from my fellow teacher, Rafe Martin. He is the author of several translations of the Jataka Tales, mythic stories of the Buddha’s previous lives. We live in a reciprocal universe. No one and nothing is ultimately isolated or alone in...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Oct 14, 2023
When the Buddha taught that with awakening comes the cessation of grief and lamentation for the world, he was commenting on the world of India 3,000 years ago, marked by disease, old age and warfare. There was warfare, power struggles and hostilities then that led to...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Oct 7, 2023
Have you noticed how Zen practice brings back to us a sense of wonder, a sense of awe? Without an intentional practice of being in the undivided present, really all here, many little details of ordinary routines and responsibilities can blind our eye to wonder. Wonder...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Sep 30, 2023
Ordinarily when something exactly matches what we’ve wished for, we might say “Perfect!”, invoking the ordinary sense of “perfect.” And as such, when it’s perfect, it’s perfect, “yes, thank you, that’s just what I wanted!” But when it’s not, it’s imperfect, “I’m so...
