A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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Meditation at Home Photographs of Village Zendo members in early 2020.
Who Can You Trust? Our leaders are untrustworthy. When we hear about toilet paper hoarders or covidiots, we stop trusting each other. But there is someone we can trust.
Reading A Journal of the Plague Year in New York Daniel Defoe's account of London in 1665 is eerily like New York in 2020.
How Buddhism Survived The Japanese Internment Japanese Americans founded our practice, and preserved and adapted it to life in internment camps. Today too, we must adapt our practice in a crisis.
Climbing Under Lockdown March 29, 2020. The gym has been closed two weeks, I'm starting to climb the walls.
Joren's Shuso Hossen March 8, 2020. Joren Sarah Drury gave her first dharma talk and engaged the community in dharma combat.
How Not To Panic Panic obliterates the self. We need a strong self to face fear in meditation and all of life. Dharma at the Village Zendo, January 23, 2020.
Meditation at the Village Zendo November 24, 2019. Meditation at a Zen temple in Manhattan.
Yokoji Zen Mountain Center August 2019. Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Year End Meditation Retreat December 2019. Yoga and sutra-copying at the Village Zendo's year-end meditation retreat at the Garrison Institute.