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...
by Zenju | Oct 10, 2014 | dharma-notes
Perhaps it is this focus on mindfulness or meditation, and nothing else on the Eightfold Path, that leads many to misconstrue the path as a personal journey and not a collective path of interrelating, or a collective way toward the cessation of suffering. We emphasize...
by Zenju | Aug 20, 2014 | dharma-notes
Evidently, my last post about suicide scared a lot of folks. I removed the post twice because I felt it was being misunderstood and causing fear. I often share a learning of my life and that was simply the purpose of the the posts. Perhaps the learning was not...
by Zenju | Aug 4, 2014 | All Things Related to Buddha
Willing to Look | August 3, 2014 If we are willing to look long enough in the mirror of zazen [seated meditation], past seeing ourselves as objects, we have the potential to see that we are nature itself—we are born and will die, just as the trees, flowers, and...
by Zenju | Jul 30, 2014 | dharma-notes, The World We Live In
I have been afraid to speak on the Israel and Gaza horror. But I can’t be silent on what hits me so hard that I am afraid to speak . What I have to say has nothing to do with which side is doing what to each other. All the horrors of the world turn my stomach. I...
