Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student

Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt Tremper, New York, Thursday 10/23/2025

Central to our practice is cultivating an openness to what we don’t yet know. Sounds simple? To continuously return to this openness means to face the habits we have of thinking small, “knowing things,” and return again with an open awareness to the fullness of life. Lay senior student Shinji shares teachings and stories to bring us back to the beneficial mind of not knowing.