Monthly Archives: December 2024

Beginning Monday, Jan. 6, Missouri Zen Center will be holding — online — morning sittings, 6:30-7:10am CT (5:30am MT, 4:30am PT, 7:30am ET), Mon-Fri. If one of your resolutions is to have a regular sitting/meditation practice, this may be the … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Necessity: Awakening-Action   We all have problems and sufferings – individually, socially, environmentally – now intertwined as the global problematique, growing greater and graver, expanding to all and ever-endangered to extinction.   This is due … Continue reading →

  Awakening for all: Zazen Conquers: Greatest Conqueror   Better than conquering thousands upon thousands Is conquering oneself. It is the greatest of war conquerors. (The Dhamma-pada, truth-word.103)   The Buddha said the above. Conquering oneself is conquering karma with … Continue reading →

  Awakening for All: Zazen Treasure: Buddha Life   Tokudo, attaining salvation (transcendence, lit. attain crossing), is living Buddha’s life beyond one’s karma life. In the Zen tradition it is to get Buddha’s robe (kaśāya: decayed in material / color), … Continue reading →