Category: Zen

Village Zendo's Summer Meditation Retreat 2022 Photos of my Zen community's first in-person sesshin since December 2019.
Buddhist Groups Supporting Refugees My Zen group, the Village Zendo, is leading a Buddhist project to resettle refugees in NYC.
Priest ordination for Shōmon at the Village Zendo August 2, 2021. This summer's head trainee, Willie Mukei Smith, was ordained and received the name Shōmon.
How To Understand Non-Self: Buddhism And Conway's Game Of Life John Conway's Game of Life is a math puzzle that gives us insights into the Buddha's teaching of anatman.
Give Something Away to a Stranger Rich countries and drug firms are acting selfishly during the pandemic. Selfishness is natural, but we can strengthen our universal goodwill through training.
Nighttime meditation in East River Park November 28, 2020. Members of the Village Zendo meditating outdoors at night in Manhattan's East River Park.
These Unreliable United States We're shocked how fragile our country is, but Buddha told us nothing lasts. We can rely only on the truth. A talk at Village Zendo, November 8, 2020.
American Religion in America's Time of Crisis Buddhists must respond to the current political crisis, just as abolitionists did in the 19th C. A talk at the Village Zendo, September 3, 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.
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.