by Abby Mushin Terris | Feb 11, 2023
This Zen path is a continual process of un-conditioning, allowing each moment its entirety, its “as is” face. The mind is made fresh in zazen….opening steadily, experiencing freshly the conditions that the burdened human mind of confusion mistakes for real. Here’s...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Feb 4, 2023
Sunday is a full moon. This day is set aside traditionally for the Fusatsu ceremony, where we contemplate our basic life intention. We look at what ways we continue to be led by our habits of mind and activities that are contributing to our own suffering and to that...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Jan 28, 2023
Our Zen practice of steady, determined, daily cultivation does tend to lighten our load in some mysterious way, and brings joy. But how does it alter the difficulties in the world directly? We still know sorrow, we still know grief. Though the Buddha tells us that...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Jan 22, 2023
Last Saturday’s dedication of our sangha to the practice of Zen Buddhism was a significant and joyful event and added encouragement to our practice of Zen Buddhism settling into the forms of our culture. Opening of the eyes of the Buddha by our founding teachers,...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Jan 15, 2023
Now that the holidays are passed and ordinary business is resuming, we see an uptick in conflict in the public sphere. What will happen next? Out of all this current turmoil in the political arena, in our domestic conflicts and the wars across the globe, in the...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Jan 8, 2023
Happy New Year! More moments to practice Zen in. A practice that emphasizes presence, moment by moment by this moment. What flows here and now is our one life — our inheritance from a long line of ancestors, of ancient and current teachers. They inspire us, and...
