Ordinary Mind Zendo
The Zendo was founded in 1996 by Barry Magid, a Dharma heir of Charlotte Joko Beck and is dedicated to her vision of a psychologically minded Zen practice adapted to the needs of American students practicing in the context of our everyday lives.
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The Relationship Between Acceptance and Responsibility
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Part 4 (Blue Cliff Record, Case 3)
I’d like to begin by reading a little excerpt from the autobiography of Alan Watts, which I just came upon. This was published in 1972, just a yea...
Treating Things and People As If They Matter
Book of Serenity, Case 22.
When Gantō came to Tokusan, he straddled the threshold and asked, “Is this ordinary, or is it holy?” Tokusan immediately shouted. Gantō bowed. Tōzan heard of this and said, “Anybody but Gantō would hardly get i...
The Freedom Of Immediate Responsiveness
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Part 3
Blue Cliff Record, Case 2.
Jōshū, instructing the assembly, said: The Supreme Way is not difficult. It simply dislikes choosing. If even a word is uttered, it is already a...
What Would It Take For the Star to Realize It Was a Star
The eighth day of the twelfth month has come to be commemorated as the day of Buddha’s enlightenment. Certainly in Japanese Zen traditions, typically the longest, most rigorous sesshin of the year is held that week, in which students’ effor...
Three First Koans - No One of Them Is It; Each One of Them Is It
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Part 2
Today we’ll start looking at Matthew Sullivan’s commentaries on the cases of the Blue Cliff Record. We begin with Case 1, which is a story that I’m sure is very familiar to a...
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