This week, our discussion looks at anger and how it can be expressed with an open heart. Here is an excerpt of the topic article, Processing Anger with an Open Heart:
We need to remember that the anger we feel toward someone else is not an accurate evaluation or judgment of who that person actu...
This week, we read an article by Edward Espe Brown. In it, he looks at how cooking, from a Zen perspective, is a metaphor for life. Brown notes:
See cooking as a chore or a waste of time, and you will find the task tedious—so tiresome that you will probably not even get into the kitchen! See coo...
This week (and next) there were no weekly gatherings, but we did have the chance to watch a video with Tara Brach in which she describes three attitudes that support our practice of waking up.
A key spiritual inquiry is, “In this moment, what most serves awakening?” Rather than a particular s...
On the first day of 2019, we explored three perspectives using VOICE (Voice of Innate Clarity Exercise). We began my considering this quote from Shunryu Suzuki, the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind:
Usually our mind is very busy and complicated, and it is difficult to be concentrated on what...