Everything Is Enlightenment; We Must Come Out of Hiding; How Meditation Inspired John Coltrane

 

09.27.2022

Everything Is Enlightenment Enlightenment is everywhere we look, says Joan Sutherland — we can choose to notice it, but at the same time, we can also trust that it will find us, wherever we are.

To Save the World We Must Come Out of Hiding When the suffering of the world knocks at our door, says Singhashri Gazmuri, we must be courageous enough to open it.

Trane of No-Thought: How Meditation Inspired Jazz Great John Coltrane Zen teacher Sean Murphy looks back at the jazz icon and how meditation practice and a deep interest in Eastern traditions informed his monumental late-period work.

Gone, Gone, Everything Gone Like leaves in the autumn or wood in the fire, all things pass. But, says Sandra Hannebohm, there is a moment in which we can see things as they are.

What Are the Three Minds? In his “Instructions to the Cook,” Dogen, the Japanese founder of the Soto Zen school, wrote that someone working to benefit others should maintain three minds: magnanimous mind (daishin), parental mind (roshin), and joyful mind (kishin).

Thich Nhat Hanh on The Practice of Mindfulness The late Thich Nhat Hanh shares five mindfulness exercises to help you live with happiness and joy.

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