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.
90-Day Training: A New Spring
Sit 30 minutes and do something vigorous that you enjoy to move your body everyday. See how it changes your life.
Virtual Dojo: 2021 Message
The kind of comfort that satisfies doesn't come from a dojo, or from all the many things that you miss right now ... but from within oneself. We're here for that.
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.
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.
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.
Giving Fearlessness
Zen and Budo, written in 1968 by Omori Sogen Rotaishi, is one of the core texts for priests and lay practitioners at our dojo. The short text of 23 pages challenges us to resolve the duality of life and death and to achieve the exacting standard of “giving fearlessness.”