Illuminated Journals
Samples from fellow practitioners are posted below. On Wednesday, November 13th at Fire Lotus Temple (6:30pm), those who are participating in the Fall 2019 Ango will have the opportunity to...
Letter from the Shuso
Dear Sangha, Looking toward this Fall 2019 Ango, I feel the excitement and trepidation of a child starting a new school year, eager to learn, and fearful that I will...
Spring 2019 Shuso Hossen with Ely Seiryu Rayek
May 26, 2019At the close of our Spring 2019 ango training period, the sangha gathered for this Shuso Hossen ceremony, recognizing Seiryu Rayek as a senior student practitioner of the...
Wordless Words
Editorial: by Suzanne Taikyo Gilman In creative work, facing a blank page or canvas calls for patience as we attune and express ourselves—a patience much like the receptive stillness of...
Receiving Kindness
Editorial: by Suzanne Taikyo Gilman How do you experience gratitude? Gratefulness, as David Steindl-Rast writes, happens when the heart flows over and must be expressed. Gratefulness arises like the surf...
Look Again, and Again
by Suzanne Taikyo Gilman Looking around at the people and things which come into our orbit, we can be easily misled. The seeing mind is dynamic, complex, and can be...
A True Life
by Suzanne Taikyo Gilman What is a true, reliably grounded, fulfilling life? The question of what is true can haunt us, fueling our underlying dis-ease and motivating us to explore...
This Should Be Easy
by Suzanne Taikyo Gilman This life of mine is perfect and complete Buddha nature; the teachings state this directly. So this should be easy—just live as an enlightened being. But...
