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Our Original Home: A Reflection on Rohatsu
I sat my first Rohatsu last year. On the eighth and final morning—the day Buddha traditionally is said to have awakened under the rising morning star—seventy-seven of us sat so still in the zendo that...
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Can You Find the Gold Under Your Own Hat? Zen and the Power of Stories
It’s our last day of Fall Practice Period at Upaya, three weeks of intensified study and meditation. Fall is in the air. The chamisa has bloomed and is ebbing. The theme for this Practice Period was...
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At the High Edge of Altruism
This excerpt is from Roshi Joan’s next book: Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet, to be published May, 2018. The word altruism was coined in 1830 by French philosopher...
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Silent Illumination: A Reflection on Sesshin by Allison Draper
To be great is to go on; To go on is to go far; To go far is to return -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Silent Illumination was the theme of Sesshin (Oct 25—Oct 30, 2016). On Opening Evening, Joshin and Genzan...
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You are at the heart of what we do.
Dear Friends, As we near the end of the year, I am recalling that in late August, I stood in a small, baking-hot, tin shanty near Kopan monastery in Kathmandu. Before me were three Rohingya men, urging...
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On July 29th, 2017, students, teachers, faculty, and friends of Roshi Joan Halifax gathered in the Circle of the Way Temple to celebrate her 75th birthday and the 25th anniversary of the founding of...
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Meditation at St. Elizabeth Men’s Shelter
Each Tuesday evening, a group of between five and ten men staying at the men’s shelter gather for meditation. The group talks about their lives – the challenges and the joys – and how they see...
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The Practice of Rehumanization by Roshi Joan Halifax
This excerpt is from Roshi Joan’s next book: Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet, to be published May, 2018. Pre-Order the book at this link. John Paul Lederach is a...
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Boot Camp and Chaplaincy Training
Angela Daiji Caruso-Yahne serves full-time as a paramedic in the metro area fire department of Kansas City. Now retired, her Air Force career included several deployments as a flight medic and...
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New Year’s Aspirations 2018 from Roshi Joan Halifax
On New Year’s Eve, Roshi Joan Halifax gave a talk that included these aspirations: May we be: Warmhearted — to those who anger us, who disparage us, who we feel oppose us or cause harm, and no less to...
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