- Transcendental Meditation for veterans
Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images How interesting—David Lynch, who's practiced Transcendental Meditation for 40 years, gives a million dollars to teach TM to veterans. I've never practiced TM and I don't know much about it, [ ... ]
- Dharma Combat
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis August 2010. Dharma combat with Enkyo Roshi during the Village Zendo's summer ango at Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. Dharma combat's the most fun you can have at a Zen temple. A senior Zen student or a [ ... ]
- Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of the Occupy Movement
OWS sign. Photo: David Shankbone. Two awesome thirtysomething Buddhist teachers I've practiced with, Michael Stone in Toronto and Ethan Nichtern here in NYC, have published An Open Letter From Buddhist and Yoga Teachers in Support of [ ... ]
- Balance
My online dharma buddy and fellow Jiryu, Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler, writes: ...silence to noise, stillness to busyness, zazen to work, isn’t necessarily integration—it’s oscillation. So we talk about [ ... ]
- Myoji Sunim gravely ill
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis On of my favorite Zen masters in New York City, Myoji Sunim, is in the hospital. A message from her temple says, Myo Ji Sunim had a massive brain hemorrhage yesterday late afternoon and was brought to St. Luke's [ ... ]
- Eido Roshi Resigns
Photo: Michael Dougan Eido Shimano Roshi has resigned his leadership of The Zen Studies Society, one of the oldest and most traditional Zen groups in the U.S., and his successor, Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, has taken his place. She [ ... ]