Have been off in the North Sea, on a windswept island, in an unending swirl of the 10,000 things, studying with my teacher’s teacher and the extended Great Maha Sangha.
Thus, my silence here.
« There’s no language that isn’t the Dharma, » Bodhidharma said in his Wake-Up Sermon.
Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
And why is it this island is called Amyland?
Is it for its merciless winds and sharp sands that cut the flesh from our bones ?
Or is it for her soft dunes sleeping in the evening sun ?
It can’t be for the thousands of loud tourists she attracts and who every summer ruin her peaceful beaches, can it?
Ting