by Zenju | Jun 6, 2015 | dharma-notes
She walks through the gate, Heavy footed, Gazing out from the darkness of skin, Seeing no church pews, She sits chanting, Why have I come without knowing whose house I have entered? —zenju I removed my sandals just outside near an open space where the...
by Zenju | May 12, 2015 | dharma-notes
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by Zenju | May 3, 2015 | dharma-notes
There is peace. Yet, I cannot even calm my heart without reminding myself of it. I cannot face another murder without knowing it. I hear the reasons, see the protest, feel the rage. I live among the popping of guns, black children afraid of imminent death, rage...
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 | 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...
