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...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Jan 1, 2023
Words from the Teacher The turning of the year . . . in human days it’s a new year. In Buddha time, it’s just this moment. The season of light and dark is not restricted to the winter holiday time. We can appreciate gifts, given and received, in each moment. The...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Nov 27, 2022
We may begin practice with a wish for bliss, a wish for peace. We try all kinds of approaches and finally arrive at dharma practice. You may be trying to find some solution to change your life from what it is. Over time you notice how you continue to taste everything,...
by Abby Mushin Terris | Nov 20, 2022
Going through a stack of notes, I came across this scribbled quote, “To most of us a person, a human being, is the ceiling of reality. But a person is no superlative.“ Can we humans encompass the entirety life with our minds? We are not at the top of the chain of...
