CHOSEI ZEN BLOG
Okyo as Zen Training
The objective of practicing okyo is to change the way you vibrate. If you change the way you vibrate, you can change the way others and your environment vibrate as well.
Antidote for the Weary
We find kiai is more like a fresh mountain spring than a protected water reservoir. Time expands and contracts depending on our state of mind.
Why We Train in the Virtual Dojo
The reason that the Virtual Dojo can function as a Zen dojo is because the human body is the real Zen dojo.
Realizing We Were Made for Each Other
I realized that it was a way I had been searching for without even knowing it.
Hexagrams, Take Two
During spring keishin in April, we experimented for the second time with using hexagrams as a tool for intensive Zen training. We’re sharing some of the results to give you a flavor of our collective experience.
Remembering Why We're Here
We train because we remember our interconnectedness and take responsibility for tuning this body and whatever we’re sending out into the world.
Winter in the Virtual Dojo
With the support of the group, we all pushed beyond our limitations. For myself, I can report going beyond fatigue to a place of light and love and life.
Nothing Like a Good Bonfire
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”
Being Your Own Jiki
The Virtual Dojo that arises from moment to moment is dependent on students being their own fierce jikis and supporting others to do the same.
We are All Zen Women
Like Zen women of thousands of years ago, we sat zazen after waking up in our own beds, before and after making our families’ meals and attending to our children and pets. Our training became our daily life and our daily life became a way of practice.
The Virtual Dojo
Heather Meikyo Scobie Roshi tells her story about the Chosei Zen Virtual Dojo.
Blast Off!
This online sesshin brought depth to my felt experience of the universe being freshly created moment by moment. With a meditation cushion, internet-enabled laptop, and the roof over my head, I created a dojo and a sangha, and they created me.
A Dojo of One
In Zen, you train alone. And that has been true long before we had the self-isolation needed during a pandemic.