Sweeping Zen The Who's Who of Zen Buddhism
From Melissa Myozen Blacker‘s Facebook post: “On the night of December 2nd, in a secret ceremony held late in the night during the December Rohatsu sesshin at Boundless Way Temple, I gave my student James Myosan Cordova denbo, or full Dharma transmission. The ancient traditional ...
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Miaozong Vindicates the Vagina From the time of the Buddha and throughout Zen history, women’s sexua...
Planning to March in Washington January 21? Come Join us!
“Even if the sun rises in the west, the way of the bodhisattva is the same.” What is th...
Sit-a-Long with Jundo: My Uplifting, Inspiring, Hopeful, Optimistic New Years Message
The past year has seen its ups and downs … a lot of downs it seems. Next year will like...
Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Back from a Rohatsu Pilgrimage to India – Nothing Found
… Nothing found or, better said, nothing found that is not right where we sit every day, right...
Rohatsu approaches by Hakuryu Ian Forsberg
As the time of Rohatsu approaches and given the ongoing conditions of the world, I have been thinkin...
2016 Rohatsu greetings from around the sangha
Dear reader, It is my goal at Sweeping Zen to help encourage this practice in others, so I am dedica...
Rohatsu Reflections by Taigen Dan Leighton
Winter is coming. We are in a transitional time, when many people are feeling vulnerable, tender, an...
Heartache, Toothache and Backache: A Rohatsu Guide to Post-Election Pain by Grace Schireson
In Japan, my teacher Keido Fukushima Roshi, said: “Watching the mind is the most important thing.” B...
All my relations by Joseph Bobrow
All My Relations I recently spent several days at Standing Rock Sioux Nation at the Oceti Sakowin ca...
The Divine Abode of Loving Kindness by Seikai Luebke
On Tuesday night when I checked the election results, I felt as if I’d been hit with a sledgehammer....
Post-Election Care by Florence Caplow
I know this is a dark, hard, angry, fearful time for many of us. I have heard and read such a range ...
Day 1 after the election, solidarity and kindness by Justin Whitaker
A LOT of feelings came up for me Tuesday night. After teaching meditation, I turned on my phone to s...
I am Trump by Genjo Marinello
As a Zen Buddhist I know that I am President-elect Trump who is more interested in being a leader th...
Election day reflections by Peter Seishin Wohl
While I believe that Donald Trump represents a terrifying threat to the lives millions of Americans,...
Toward recovery from loss by Bodhin Kjolhede
In the aftermath of this week’s election, I’ve been hearing from Sangha and non-Sangha alike, near a...
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James Myosan Cordova becomes Melissa Myozen Blacker’s dharma successor
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Painting Peace, Kazuaki Tanahashi film screening in San Rafael Nov. 20
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Leonard Cohen, musician and Zen practitioner, dies at 82
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SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: ENGAGED PATIENCE ( PLUS SPECIAL ZAZENKAI with BRAD WARNER)
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SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Engaged Ethics (& Zenathon for Treeleaf’s 10th Anniversary)
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Jogye Order to increase their age limit for monastic ordination
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Rafe Martin Interview
Rafe Martin is an internationally known storyteller and award-winning author whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek and USA Today. Rafe has appeared in thousands of schools, libraries, festivals, and conferences in nearly every state-including Alaska and Hawaii-and as far away as Japan. He ...
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Elegant Failure, a conversation on koans with Wu Kwang Richard Shrobe
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Tamara Myoho Gabrysch Interview
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Harvey Daiho Hilbert interview
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Angie Boissevain Interview
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Myo Denis Lahey Interview
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Guo Gu interview
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Zentetsu Tim Burkett interview
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Fairy Tales and Zen Riddles
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Zen Women and the Pussy Kōan
Miaozong Vindicates the Vagina From the time of the Buddha and throughout Zen history, women’s sexuality, aka the “pussy koan,” have been one of the more difficult problems for Zen monks and nuns. In 11th century China, the nun Miaozong (1095-1170) flashed a Zen monk ...
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Sit-a-Long with Jundo: My Uplifting, Inspiring, Hopeful, Optimistic New Years Message
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Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Back from a Rohatsu Pilgrimage to India – Nothing Found
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Heartache, Toothache and Backache: A Rohatsu Guide to Post-Election Pain by Grace Schireson
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I am Trump by Genjo Marinello
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Koan Introspection: A Quick and Dirty Introduction
A friend in a recent blog posting referred to a deep question he was pondering as an “honest koan.” As later today Jan & I are going to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see an exhibition of the work of the great ...
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SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Knocking Down Monastery Walls IV
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Spiritual Longing
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DAIHO’S WINDING ROAD (Part 2 of a Series)
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Some Thoughts About Engaged Buddhism and Wrong Mindfulness
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Zen in America website and trailer launch
WEBSITE: http://zeninamerica.com/ Hi friends! I’ve been having a blast doing this documentary so far, finding myself wanting to see it someday as much as anyone else. As you can see from the trailer, it’s not just teachers I’m talking with — I want this film ...
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Souls of Zen – Buddhism, Ancestors, and the 2011 Tsunami in Japan, a new documentary film
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Zen Furnace – Documentary to be featured at the 2011 Louisville International Film Festival
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Abraxas no Matsuri, a film by Director Naoki Kato (w/ Trailer)
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The Zen Mind – Emptymind Films
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Remembering Zenshin “Tim” Buckley
Jokan Zenshin Thomas “Tim” Buckley was a Buddhist for more than fifty years. He became one on reading D. T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and Paul Reps in his high school days. A few years later, after difficulties due to addiction, Tim dropped out of Harvard, ...
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Rohatsu Sesshin at Zuioji
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Remembering Daigan Lueck: Painter, poet, monk by Norman Fischer
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Rev. Jikan Paula Kondrick: In memoriam (1927 to 2011)
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Recalling Nichidatsu Fujii
