Creative Expression

“May I support the life of boundless untold beings” By Sandy Joshin Del Valle  One Sunday afternoon in September 2023, Hojin sensei announced to the sangha her intention to launch...

By Eliza Nappi Former ZMM resident and MRO student Eliza is an artist who, during the Fall Ango 2023 art practice, combined two of her favorite things: illustration and “Inktober”...

Weaving history, methodology, neuroscience and psychodynamics, butoh innovator Vangeline covers a lot of ground in her expansive and illuminating book.

This excerpt is from Mountains and Rivers, the annual book-length journal of the MRO which features original contributions from dharma teachers like Hojin Sensei, an artist, ceramicist and director of...

The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo By Paula Arai Reviewed by Chikan Bacon

By Birgitte J. Haug As fall ango came to an end, Monastery residents gathered to share their three-months of art practice. Led by Hojin Sensei, herself an artist, I felt...

Zen training in the Mountains and Rivers Order includes taking up creative expression—both the traditional Zen arts as well as contemporary arts—to deeply study the self through using our inherent...

Oh my gosh! How did the high privilege ever come to me to review this book? I am lost in it and continually astonished. Margaret Gibson’s newest book of poems,...

Michelle Seigei Spark, senior lay student in the Mountains and Rivers Order, spoke recently with Mountain Record about creative process, resilience and joy.

by Chase Takusei Twichell A wooden Buddha gazes down upon my desk from a small shelf painted the same color as the walls: Chinese Dragon. Beside him, a picture Lucy...