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Our practice has peaks and valleys but always continues and February begins with a sesshin. Some things captivate us and others escape our attention. The illusion that endless engrossment in daily activities, related to work and leisure, will lead us somewhere, will lead us far, it is out there. Yet out there there’s also the...

"Interdependence is what unites all existences. No one, nothing is separated from the totality. It is like a movement between all the elements of the cosmos. If this movement stops, it leads to the reduction of the elements, the fixation in an inert state, without movement, and the consequent disappearance. The law of interdependence allows...

After the Easter sesshin, the practice of the Way continues at Shorin-ji. How could it not? The Way has no beginning and no end. Days concentrated especially on the Samu, with zazen every morning and evening. Ongoing projects will receive the energy of the Sangha's zazen these days. There will be a space for the...

Zen is the effort of the human being practicing meditation, zazen. Striving to attain mastery of thoughts without discrimination, consciousness beyond all categories, encompassing all expressions of language."   (Taisen Deshimaru)   Sesshin of gratitude to Grandmaster Mokudo Taisen Deshimaru, from May 1st to May 3rd in Shorin-ji, arriving on the evening of April 30....

    The kesa is zazen. It is our skin in zazen. It is our flesh in zazen, our bones and our marrow. It is all that constitutes the zazen that we practice. In the zazen that we practice there is not only a pure side, there also exists and appears in zazen the whole...