Come one, come all to hear my first Paris reading entirely in English for the continuing launch of my new book, Here We Are (Presses universaitaires de Rouen et du Havre). It's on May 26, 19h30, part of an evening of poetry in English, French and Kurdish, hosted by the series Poets Live at Berkeley Books [...]
L'art d'écrire se révèle naturellement à partir d'une vision élargie qu'on peut appeler pleine perspective, fondée sur un cœur et un esprit qui n'excluent rien. Cette ouverture totale nous permet de ressentir les choses dans leur intégralité, d'exprimer cette expérience par les mots et de la formaliser. À travers la méditation et des exercices d'écriture, [...]
What a strange, tumultuous five days it has been here in Paris. It is no exaggeration to say that I've never experienced anything like it, here or anywhere. We've gone from stunned horror and outrage to raw fear and anxiety to awe and amazement and much, much more within such a brief time frame, beginning [...]
JE SUIS CHARLIE
Time, once again, to acknowledge the conventional "passage of time" that we call the "new year." It's a great moment, in fact, when many of us reflect on what has been and what is to come, when we express our hopes and wishes for ourselves and others. It's also a fine moment to stop and [...]
Back after traveling to the edge of the continent for a few days of practice in Belfast. Struck by the pale, almost thread-bare northern light cast there beside the Irish Sea and its swift descent almost as soon as afternoon had begun. Night was suddenly upon us and I hadn't even had a cup of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Le Web carnet de Amy Hollowell Sensei, fondatrice de la Wild Flower Zen Sangha et successeur de Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi dans le lignage Zen Soto de Taizan Maezumi Roshi, fondateur du Centre Zen de Los Angeles.
The Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.
