Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Last week at our prison ministry we started reading and studying from Zen Mind Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. The members of our...
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This Ordinary Moment by Horaku
Within this Ordinary Moment calmly sits the Stillness of Samadhi every activity performed mindfully skillfully preaches the Totality...
Great Bodhisattva Manjusri
In gratitude for our practice, this artist shares his work with us. If you would like more information about the artist, please contact me.
“Within These Walls” A Poem by Floyd P.
Within these walls Creations are numberless, Within these walls, I vow to free them. Within these walls, Delusions are inexhaustible....
More from Joseph C.
One of our prison sangha members recently wrote the following to Mushin Sensei: Four years of diligent practice and I realize I’m still a...
Notes from Behind the Fence
Notes from Behind the Fence Hello, may this letter find you happy and at peace. I want to start this letter off by sharing an insight I...
A letter from Joseph C.
Mushin’s pen pal shares these insights with us: “I read the Sutras daily and meditate each day, but now the difference is that I take a...
Enlightening Incident: Buddha as a door stopper
One of my Hospice patients used my Buddha statute as a door stopper. She did not know Buddha, nor was she aware that this was a...
On Freedom and the Precepts….by J.W.
Recently, one of our prison sangha members wrote me an essay on the precepts and why he wished to receive Jukai. Here is an excerpt from...
Holiday Greetings from Behind the Fence
Jozan offered this creative greeting for us to share. On behalf of everyone in our extended sangha,inside and out, we wish you a happy...