Maria Kannon Zen Center

Awakening to Kinship with All: New Year’s Message, 2021 Dear Friends and Sangha Members of our Maria Kannon Zen Community, Greetings and...

So, if everything is Zen, they why do people take time out of their lives to meditate?

Several Mondays ago, a friend of mine invited me to attend a meditation group she was hosting for local musicians and their friends. When...

This is the first of a two or three part exposition of a point of view regarding the current wave of popular interest in what has been...

The Sandokai also known as The Meaning of Sameness and Difference or The Identity of the Relative and the Absolute is a Chinese poem written

The Sandokai also known as The Meaning of Sameness and Difference or The Identity of the Relative and the Absolute is a Chinese poem...

Dear Friends, As we welcome the new year and the new decade of the 2020’s, with a heart full of gratitude to each and everyone of you, I...

Let me begin by citing from an inspiring sermon I heard at a Eucharistic celebration on the Feast of the Holy Family, Sunday, 30 December...

What is Zen practice all about? It is following our heart to the path of true freedom, the wisdom of seeing things as they are, which...

Thomas Merton proclaimed in his essay, “The Woman Clothed with the Sun” that a certain power existed in the fact that we know so little...