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Contemplative Crossings

Joshua R. Paszkiewicz

A Zen Teacher's occasional musings on the wisdom of contemplation, across traditions and spiritual paradigms.

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On the Maturational Trajectory of Zen Practice

Zen Master Seung Sahn frequently instructed that the developmental trajectory of the Zen practitioner is to “first wake up,” and then “help save all beings.”

When the latter Bodhisattvic evolution is not taken up utterly prematurely, it st...

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On Being and Beholding

Sadness, melancholy, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, boredom, and even occasional hopelessness are all normative, and even recurrent experiences in the human condition. When we resist their occasional forays into our conscious experience, they...

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What Saves Us?

In the Zen tradition, we frequently intone the Bodhisattva Vows, the first of which promises that “sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them all.”

In his famed Compass of Zen teaching, the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn opens with t...

4 months ago
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On Calling, Discernment, and Religious Vocation

I’ve been talking a lot about vocational calling in the context of ministry these days. After a couple decades of personal wrestling, both as an individual and as a religious teacher, it’s become clear to me that transcendent of the details...

4 months ago
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On the Dawning of Compassion

Compassion arises like an itch, spontaneously and without effort. It requires no special tending or intention beyond the practice of being with what is.

In the cultivation of awareness, one naturally takes note of (and accord with) the...

4 months ago
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    Priest, Zen Teacher, Psychotherapist, Nurse, Clinical Chaplain, Author, and Educator. I blog on a number of topics, centered around contemplative spirituality, east and west.

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