Sit, Breathe, Bow

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This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

The spiritual practice of sharing the dharma is not a form of entertainment. This is something we do to find out what life is. At the foundation of the practice is dana or generosity.

What does it mean to live a generous life?

Reverend Teijo Munnich the is founder and Dharma Teacher for the Great Tree Zen Women’s Temple, the Zen Center of Asheville and she is the Dharma Teacher for the Charlotte Zen Meditation Society. Teijo studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi from 1975 until his death in 1990. Teijo was ordained as a Zen priest in 1981and received transmission in 1989. In addition to training at Hokyoji (Catching the Moon Zen Mountain Center) in Minnesota, Teijo also received formal training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in CA and Hosshinji in Obama, Japan.

You can find out more by visiting the website for the Great Tree Zen Women’s Temple

When you’re living the precepts, when you’re living according to your values, then meditation becomes much easier because the precepts are the foundation for what it means to do the work of meditation.

Rev. Liên Shutt was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam and began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. In 1998, she helped create Buddhists of Color, one of the early meditation groups committed to supporting practitioners of color San Francisco Bay area. Liên began her formal monastic training in 2002 at Tassajara Zen Monastery and continued her monastic training in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, Liên continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in the U.S. and Thailand. She received dharma transmission from Zenkei Blanche Hartman in 2013.

You can find out more by visiting the website for Access to Zen

Click here, if you are interested in The Dharma of Being Anti-Racist

So many people are chasing after happiness like it is something that can be attained. But happiness comes and goes. How can you be with "what is" in this moment?

This practice invites us to be vulnerable, open, and intimate. This is incredibly challenging and requires courage, but it also is the only way to look deeply into who we are.

Living in the dharma allows us to be vulnerable and to connect with the rest of the universe. Practice dismantles the habits of trying to build up the delusions around us.

When we are being choice-full, we are able to live into our values, we can live into the things we care about.