- More Zen Portraits
Jennifer and Ryoshin from the Village Zendo's retreat, last summer and the summer before.  
- Jukai Photos: Jukai
August 7, 2011. Jukai, a ceremony in which Zen students promise to uphold the precepts, and receive a new name. The initiates have put their robes on top of their heads while they chant, to express their reverence for the Buddha way.  
- Zen Photos: River Lanterns
- Zen Photos: Enkyo Roshi
- Sybil's Death Poem
- Generosity
- Sybil Myoshin Taylor
My good friend Sybil died today, a few months after she found out she had leukemia. She was about 80, I think, and she'd been jetting around Germany last fall when she started tiring more easily usual. She came home, got her diagnosis, fought [ ... ]
- Zen Portraits
- Zencation
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis I'm back in NYC tonight. I spent a few days in Chicago with my girlfriend's family for Christmas, and we're leaving tomorrow for our habitual weeklong Zen retreat with the Village Zendo. I've had a pretty good [ ... ]
- Spontaneous Shrines
Spontaneous shrine in Kern County, CA. Photo: Shady Grove Oliver My friend Shady Grove Oliver blogs about spontaneous shrines. She writes that a "type of stranger-ritual is performed by passersby who stop or change course specifically [ ... ]