I finally stepped out of the SkyTrain after the long journey from Santa Fe. I walked over the Grandview Cut and all all my pores opened wide , my lungs filling with moist forest air. After five months in the desert I felt like a parched epiphyte coming home. I am in Vancouver for a …
Category: Life of Carmen
Zen in a napkin: how oryoki kicked my ass
My first Zen sesshin introduced me to oryoki: the Japanese ritual of extreme table manners. For the full week of sesshin we sit zazen meditation for upwards of five hours a day, plus walking meditation and dharma talks. We eat all our meals in the zendo, oryoki style—seated on the floor on our round …
Climate talks fail. So what.
Rohatsu morning
Cracked open. Wrung out. Ready. Svaha!
Th-th-th-th-that’s all folks!
I’ve gone offline til Dec. 9. In intensive Fall Practice Period at Upaya – which means, no Internet, no reading, no writing, no chitchat. I am free, to do whatever I please, with me. Seeya in a few weeks. Live fully and enjoy.