by Anna Myosen Nacher | Jan 17, 2022 | Featured
Getting ordained at the Mississippi The Great River wouldn’t let me go. Harold Fisk’s Map of Meander Mississippi (1944), PD GOV, no any rights reserved, source: US Army Corps of Engineers The Great Dharma River wouldn’t let me go. We were so close, yet so...
by admin | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured
Settling Into What Is Experiencing the “ah-ha” moment, in every moment. A few months ago, I came to the 2021 Zen Garland sesshin with a mix of excitement, uncertainty, and a side helping (or was it a main course?) of doubt about what I was doing in my Zen practice. In...
by Trish Johnson | Apr 16, 2020 | Featured
The New Light Reveals What is Needed This is such a strange and unforgettable time to be alive. It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that less than 2 months ago (and less for many of us) our daily lives had a sense of (what seemed to be) normalcy. We could...
by Anna Myosen Nacher | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured
Sewing To Save The World “To know yourself is to forget yourselfto forget yourself is to become enlightened by all things” The famous phrase by Dogen Zenji, and one that is featured on the Zen Garland website says: “To know yourself is to forget yourselfto forget...
by Trish Johnson | Nov 6, 2019 | Featured
I’m sitting next to the fire as I write, taking time to warm up next to a place I love to be this time of year. Warmth; something I appreciate feeling, both physically and emotionally. As I sit here, I am feeling grateful about my morning. I have the honor of...
by Monta May | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured
We all do terrible things to each other… by intent, by neglect, and by ignorance. Up until recently I would have said that mostly this happens unintentionally. These days though, I think cruelty, rudeness, and contempt, in the name of “being real” is celebrated. What...
