novembre 2014
Thich Nhat Hanh suffers brain hemorrhage
Word has come from Plum Village that the Vietnamese Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh has suffered a severe brain hemorrhage and is in critical condition in a hospital in Bordeaux. Thich Nhat Hanh, 88, is one of the greatest Buddhist leaders of our time, an author, lecturer and popular peace advocate who [...]
Meanwhile…
This (apparent) absence from zenscribe has been going on for months now. So sorry! I had stopped posting while we've been developing an updated look and content for the Wild Flower website, with the blog migrating there, too, and given a new look. But as these things often do, it has taken much longer than [...]
juillet 2014
Wherever you are
Off to Portugal for a weeklong retreat. Join us wherever you are...
Coming down to earth
Just a thought that has come to me via the late great Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa: "The only way to experience things truly, fully, and properly is through the practice of meditation, creating a direct link with nature, with life, with all situations. When we speak of being highly developed spiritually, this does not mean [...]
Serving at the World Cup
Someone recently passed along this quote to me (from someone named Rachel Naomi Remen): "Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life: When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole." Among the questions these words may [...]
juin 2014
The passing of Malgosia Braunek Roshi
It is with heavy heart that I must write again about the death of a great teacher in our lineage: Malgosia Jiho Braunek Roshi died on Monday at the age of 67 in Warsaw after fighting cancer for a little more than a year. Although we saw each other barely once a year, I learned [...]
Almost-summer gladness
Another fine almost-summer day here finds me happy again to offer another poem to my zenscribe comrades, near and far. Many thanks for comments on previous posting... Glad we're back, having never left. ANNALS OF ASTRONOMY You won’t go to paradise tonight or tomorrow But look now for a moment Constellations of you are new [...]
An offering for Bloomsday
It took Bloomsday to bring me back to these pages. If you're reading this, I owe you deep thanks for keeping zenscribe in mind even without any sign of life and words here. So with gratitude, I offer a poem from my forthcoming book, Here We Are, to mark Mr. Bloom's never-ending day in Joyce's [...]
