by SJZC Administrator | Dec 15, 2025
From Mushin: How do the arts enter your everyday life? As mirrors for experience and meaning-making, they shed a bright light on the human-made world. They trigger us into physical sensations, emotions, streams of thought associations, memories, dreams etc. There’s...
by SJZC Administrator | Dec 8, 2025
From Mushin: The whole world in the ten directions is One Bright Pearl, the title of the essay by Dogen Zenji that we worked with at the Rohatsu sesshin just finished. We come away from it with a keener awareness of how this one bright pearl, each moment, is shaped by...
by SJZC Administrator | Nov 30, 2025
From Mushin: Many of us are preparing to attend Rohatsu sesshin, a week that celebrates the Buddha’s awakening. We celebrate by embodying it during an intensive week of being present in all that we do. Everything, from zazen to chanting, to work practice, to drinking...
by SJZC Administrator | Nov 23, 2025
From Sogen: What is being received right now by body, heart and mind? What is being received that sustains and enriches life? Thank you air. Thank you food. Thank you friend. Thank you stranger. Gratitude, acknowledgment, appreciation being expressions of generosity,...
by SJZC Administrator | Nov 17, 2025
From Mushin: How often are you walking along wrapped up in your thoughts, and feeling unsettled? A while back Jiden Christina Stanley sent me words from Ralph Waldo Emerson that read, “Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain...
by SJZC Administrator | Nov 10, 2025
From Mushin: We live in a reciprocal universe. No one and nothing is ultimately isolated or alone in deepest reality. Whatever happens anywhere, in some way touches us, and conversely, how we live and act and think affects everything everywhere. Given what is now...
