by Zenju | Feb 11, 2015 | dharma-notes
When we recognize that we are all a part of the collective injury of hatred, we begin to face our unexamined fears. We do not have to go far to find ourselves in the midst of human struggles based on unacceptable differences. This struggle is an intimate tension...
by Zenju | Jan 1, 2015 | Dharma Talks
Recently folks have asked, “What lesson are you to learn around home? You have moved a lot.” Yes, my partner and I have fallen into the abyss called homelessness several times in the last year. When I am asked about the lesson or the karma of such, I have...
by Zenju | Dec 14, 2014 | Dharma Talks
…Because they interfere with how we see one another, our ancestral and karmic tendencies help to create what we learn about each other. So, we must explore the tendencies that blind us to true interrelationship. If we continue on unaware of the learned...
by Zenju | Dec 8, 2014 | dharma-notes
Racialized terror against black lives has been unleashed to defeat a black/liberated/conscious leadership and development in this country. For the twenty-first century the freedom of the black mind from a mental condition of slavery is a freedom from perceiving...
by Zenju | Oct 10, 2014 | dharma-notes
When I entered the path of Dharma someone asked, “Did you come to Buddhism because of your suffering? I responded, “No.” He looked at me as if I were lying. Somewhere deep in my heart I felt he was saying that I had entered the Buddha Way for my own...
