Zen

Being Aware of the Day, Moment by Moment
The Zen Buddhist holiday of Rohatsu provides a wonderful roadmap for learning to live in the present. But there's no need to wait until December to practice living in the moment.

Zen and the Art of Report Writing
My first experience at a Zen meditation center - a report.

Zen Meditation
Read on to find out more about Zen Meditation…

The Art of Making Peace in Zen and Jewish Practice
Zen and Jewish practice provide many time tested methods of healing conflict and making peace within ourlseves and between ourselves and others. This article explores how these two practices offer healing for issues you are facing today.

What is Enlightenment?
Explains deeply, yet simply, the profound concepts of non-duality and enlightenment. Reveals the truth behind Zen & Advaita Vedanta, and the secret to enlightenment.

A Zen Gift
Do you have faith? Not sure? Learn how thinking about this question in a different way, and see what happens. A zen gift awaits.

I Do Not Know/Unknown
While practicing the way of Zen, one may encounter different experiences. This Japanese song, written by an unknown monk, gives us a glimpse to such an experience.

Sitting Zen
Alone, in the middle forest. Nothing to distract us form sitting on the cushion, cross our legs, straighten the back, take a deep breath, and just sit. But as everything becomes quiet on the outside, we start to hear the noise on the inside.

Living in a bottle
The Zen Koan is an impossible question, a question one can not answer using his intellect. It is like a piece of hot coal stuck in your throat- you can't swallow it or spit it away. so how can the goose get out of the bottle?

The Sutra of No Self/The Buddha
"What am I?" is a basic question in Zen practice. In the Sutra of No Self, which was given at the deer-park soon after his enlightenment, Gutama the Buddha is disscusing this matter.

To Be A Witness
During our lives, we are mostly occupied by the things happening to us. These events are like a movie, in which we are the main actors. Stepping of the stage and witnessing the movie can change the way we live our lives.

Radios and Mantras
When sitting Zen, one can look inside- rather then outside. By turning our awareness inwards, we are able to listen to our inner radio. is it really possible to change the station we are forcded to listen to?

Freedom from Karma
According to the Buddhist doctrine of Karma we are like puppets, being constantly pulled here and there. Let the strings pull us or fighting them- either way we are bound. what is the true relationship between us and our karma?