- 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 [ ... ]
- 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 [ ... ]