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Awakening to Kinship with all: New Year's Message 2021
Awakening to Kinship with All: New Year’s Message, 2021 Dear Friends and Sangha Members of our Maria Kannon Zen Community, Greetings and...
Buzz Lightyear, the zen master?
So, if everything is Zen, they why do people take time out of their lives to meditate?
Musical Beginnings
Several Mondays ago, a friend of mine invited me to attend a meditation group she was hosting for local musicians and their friends. When...
Should Meditation Be Considered a Form of Psychotherapy?Dr. Michael Kampschaefer
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...
Sandokai (Part 1)
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
Sandokai (Part 1)
The Sandokai also known as The Meaning of Sameness and Difference or The Identity of the Relative and the Absolute is a Chinese poem...
2020 New Year's Message
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...
Family Matters---Welcoming 2019
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...
Zen Practice: Sitting in Silence with the Pain of the World
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...
Maria-Kannon: A Focal Point for Buddhist Christian Interactions
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...
