joe on Aug 22 2008 | Filed under: Dana, homelessness, One Bright Pearl, 2008, zazen, Duckweed, Homeleaving, Zen
My new blog - One Bright Pearl - is finally online although I still am developing the blogs presentation. From today onward, all posts relating specifically to my practice of takuhatsu and zazen as a homeless mendicant following the Way as taught by Dogen Zenji will be posted there.
joe on Aug 17 2008 | Filed under: Uchiyama Roshi, takuhatsu, Eihei Dogen, 2008, zazen, Zen
I have decided to return to Denver. It is there that I will continue to face the Buddha and practice the Way. I have had this spark of bodhicitta for a long time but have failed to put it into action effectively. It is only now that I am finally beginning to live my complete […]
joe on Jul 27 2008 | Filed under: Thic Nhat Hahn, Withdrawal, Kinhin, Insomnia, Methadone, Recovery, Addiction, shikantaza, zazen, 2008, Zen
Can’t sleep again. But as Thic Nhat Hahn reminds me, I am more than this body doubled over.
I have found that shikantaza helps me to disidentify with the pain of withdrawal. Not to deny this physical pain but rather to continuously drop the thoughts I have about the pain. For at least the last four […]
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