Over the last 2 years, monks of the Order have established 4 new temples: In early 2014 Rev. Alicia Rowe established Sitting Buddha Hermitage in Derbyshire, UK, and Rev. Leoma Hague established the Norwich Zen Buddhist Priory in Norwich, UK. In December 2014 Rev. Aidan Hall established Turning Wheel Buddhist Temple in Leicester, UK. Most recently, Rev. Bridin Rusins has started Soto Zen Riga in Riga, Latvia and appeared in the Latvian Magazine IR…
…Rusins and Margarita Putnina in their time have tossed away everything, in order to say “Ï’m happy”. EVERYTHING MAKES HER HAPPY Elga Rusins (spiritual name Bridin) greets me on the entryway steps in a brown monks robe with “sveiks” and holding her palms together. In the next moment she reveals “I am happy here”. We are standing in the entryway to her apartment, so I ask if that refers to this apartment or life in general. That refers to everything…
…of our order: Reflections On the Life and Practice of Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett (55min.) Over the weekend of November 4-6, 2016, Shasta Abbey celebrated the 20th Anniversary of Rev. Master Jiyu’s death. Rev. Master Haryo offered the Dharma Talk reflecting on some aspects of practicing with Reverend Master Jiyu. This talk also contains some helpful discussion on our practice of meditation. The Wave (17 min. Given at Shasta Abbey on September 27…
…ye. And you awaken to the fact that you don’t have to be a swirling thought-cloud. You’ve put something down. You’ve seen the house-builder; the creator of worlds. You don’t seek truth, or call something delusion; and you return to a place you fundamentally never left. And you’ve transmuted the ordinary mind into the Buddha mind. There’s the whole alchemical process of trying to transmute lead into gold; transmute something base into something spe…