If anyone thinks the damage to the Americas First Peoples by the immigrants from Europe was/is minimal, or is being overblown, they need to realize the huge ongoing effect of the residential schools on those children, and their children and their children's children. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57291530
Month: May 2021
Richard Stonechild
Robert Knudson
Jundo Cohen Roshi – “What’s the Point?”
What's The Point? Someone heard me say that we can practice in this life, living to be gentle and wise now, unconcerned about lives after this one. They wrote to ask me the point of practicing Zen without a "belief in rebirth ... If there is no rebirth, don't we all escape samsara when we… Continue reading Jundo Cohen Roshi – “What’s the Point?”
Eric Clapton – COVID Vaccine reaction
Peripheral Neuropathy
Blaming Religion – a new fad
Many folks thrive on pointing the finger at things outside themselves...... in all directions except for where the problem really lies....... a favorite blaming place is religion......Quite frankly, organized religion is just filling an emptiness that folks feel when we have lost the inner sense of fullness. Pointing the finger of "who dunnit first" is… Continue reading Blaming Religion – a new fad
The Precepts – Jundo Cohen
There are many ways to express the Precepts in English. I so much agree that Zazen and the Precepts are one and whole, with Zazen sustaining the Precepts, the Precepts nurturing Zazen. I do not feel that they are "Commandments," but they are pointers toward a good, gentle, peaceful, tolerant, non-harming and healthful life toward… Continue reading The Precepts – Jundo Cohen
Reality is Dharma 