Because the way of zazen is indivisible from everything, it is the activity of faith. If there’s any division, then faith in enlightenment cannot take effect and it becomes belief. Faith opens up experience, effecting a receptive and responsive engagement within time and place. There are aspects of trust in this but this trust is […]
Without impermanence, there would be no beauty. If it were possible to eradicate impermanence, from that point on there would only be a hellish eternity where nothing moves or breathes. My shoes Then and now, now Doubting impermanence, we may attempt to create a permanence and imagine that it is working. This could be a
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Out of gratitude to Shakyamuni, May I realize the truth That birth and death are nothing but nirvana. And so share myself graciously, Just as the plum tree in the piercing cold – blossoms. Happy Wesak 2022!
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“When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly”. This dropping away is integral to the practice of zazen and the Soto Zen tradition, it is immediate realization of our true form and the
April events Hi, dates for what’s going on in April are now up for booking here Introduction sessions: Tuesday 5th, Saturday 9th, Tuesday 19th Meditation mornings: Saturday 2nd, Saturday 30th Meditation day: Saturday 16th
Wherever we are, whatever is going on, attention can move effortlessly around breathing, thought, sensation, the immediate surroundings, and so on. This integrated functioning is not special and is not a skill acquired through a technique, something to switch on or off. It’s the functioning wisdom of our real nature. We have probably become
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March events Dates for March are now available on the booking calendar: Saturday 5th: Meditation morning, 9.15am – 12.30pm Tuesday 8th: Introduction, 7.00-8.30pm Saturday 12th: Introduction, 10.00am – 12.30pm Saturday 19th: Meditation day, 9.15am – 4.00pm Tuesday 22nd: Introduction, 7.00 – 8.30pm
In trying to become an accepting person, we get in our own way and smother the possibility of real acceptance. At best we make a clumsy imitation of what is always energetically liberated, cannot be contained and is simply unconditional. If our actions are tinted with signs of resigned frustration, defensiveness, striving and the like,
