Listen to dharma talks from the teachers and guest teachers of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Buddhist teachings are woven into topics such as ...
Untangling the Mind: A New Year’s Invitation | Koshin Paley Ellison
“What do you need to set aside?” How often do we get stuck on ‘rightness’ and ‘wrongness’? These judgements separate us from actually experiencing our lives moment by moment. Keizan Jokin invites us to free ourselves from such considerations and rest comfortably in our true nature for the sake of all beings. In this […]
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Zazen as an Attitude for Life | Koshin Paley Ellison
“Zazen is an attitude for how you live.” For many of us, showing others who we really are is rare. But why? What causes and conditions; stories and identities do you drape around yourself? Keizan Jokin says that the practice of sitting zazen is like coming home. How can we set down what is […]
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Turning the Wheels of Practice and Dharma | Koshin Paley Ellison
Artwork by Contemplative Medicine Fellow, Prash Gunasekera Like a plum blossom blooming in the winter, possibilities can emerge even when new life seems inconceivable. Koshin Sensei encourages us to stop indulging our deadening habits and to work with our minds to get clear moment by moment. Can we walk down the street, meet other […]
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Clarifying the Mind-Ground | Koshin Paley Ellison
“It turns out that we don’t really change until we completely commit, especially when things are hard.” We all can feel lonely and isolated sometimes. And, at the very same time, we are often reluctant to participate and engage with what is all around us. Koshin Sensei encourages us not to hold back. Perhaps, […]
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Aspiring, Not Grasping | Chodo Campbell
“We are caught in unawareness, in delusion, when our minds grasp after what isn’t really here and right in front of us.” – Chodo Our minds are constantly grasping after shiny objects – names, concepts, ideas, stories. There is a long history in Buddhism of referring to this cognitive tendency as our monkey mind. […]
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Listen to dharma talks from the teachers and guest teachers of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Buddhist teachings are woven into topics such as contemplative care, engaged Buddhism, social change, meditation and stillness, dealing with addiction, being with suffering, and the arts and challenges of care for the self and others.
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