CHOSEI ZEN BLOG
90-Day Training: A New Spring
Sit 30 minutes and do something vigorous that you enjoy to move your body everyday. See how it changes your life.
Don’t Move! And other things you’ll hear in the zendo
The jiki who instructs, “Don’t move” is like a guest in your home who smelled smoke and asked, “Is something burning?”
Virtual Dojo: 2021 Message
The kind of comfort that satisfies doesn't come from a dojo, or from all the many things that you miss right now ... but from within oneself. We're here for that.
Fall Sesshin 2021 - Spring Green Dojo
“How do we use training in Spring Green to prepare people for the severe limitations in resources that the climate crisis is bringing closer to our doors?”
News From Rhode Island
We have now planted the seeds of our small dojo here in Rhode Island.
Update from Daikozen-ji
We are in a much stronger position than we were a year ago, and we’re roaring to go.
Shakuhachi Zen
I quickly learned that a shakuhachi tells you what it is; that is, what key it will play in.
Realizing We Were Made for Each Other
I realized that it was a way I had been searching for without even knowing it.
Hexagrams, Take Two
During spring keishin in April, we experimented for the second time with using hexagrams as a tool for intensive Zen training. We’re sharing some of the results to give you a flavor of our collective experience.
Remembering Why We're Here
We train because we remember our interconnectedness and take responsibility for tuning this body and whatever we’re sending out into the world.
Winter in the Virtual Dojo
With the support of the group, we all pushed beyond our limitations. For myself, I can report going beyond fatigue to a place of light and love and life.
Work in Progress
The rock that you cannot move or project that is beyond your grasp will teach you much more than the one that is within your known limits.
Nothing Like a Good Bonfire
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”
Being Your Own Jiki
The Virtual Dojo that arises from moment to moment is dependent on students being their own fierce jikis and supporting others to do the same.
A Tale of Shugyo
Greene Roshi weaves a beautiful story about a student of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) into a timeless tale of Shugyo.
Things Are Different At Night
I’m walking down to the ceramics kiln for my 3 am firing shift. In the circle of my headlamp’s light there are all these beautiful white flowers. Wow – how come I didn’t notice them before?
We are All Zen Women
Like Zen women of thousands of years ago, we sat zazen after waking up in our own beds, before and after making our families’ meals and attending to our children and pets. Our training became our daily life and our daily life became a way of practice.
The Virtual Dojo
Heather Meikyo Scobie Roshi tells her story about the Chosei Zen Virtual Dojo.