Lincroft Zen Sangha

“…flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy…”

For the time being, we call this a new year! May we allow ourselves to know the joy of abiding here, nowhere.

“I, the broad earth, and all conscious beings are enlightened and effortlessly manifest the Great Way together.” “All beings contain within themselves the seeds of Enlightenment and yet we drown in the ocean of birth and death for so many thousands of lifetimes!” This month  Zen Buddhists, will celebrate the time of the Buddha’s awakening. […]

The great silence is the experience of living deeply settled in our life in all settings and circumstances.

Sesshin is a time of everyday life when we carry out the activities of everyday life with the compassionate attention of open awareness.

Looking for the moon, it is here, in this wave in the next.
fr. Dogen Zenji’s Instructions to the Cook

When the moon’s power holds sway, our minds are quiet, open, and receptive to the moon’s changes.

A flower raised in one hand evokes a smile on the face of another. Our zazen is the zazen of the Buddhas.

Each of us can recognize ourselves in what seems to be “other”. Each of us can recognize ourselves in the boundlessness of the universe. Take a long and loving look.

a teaching on Zen practice as a shift in point of view: looked at one way, separate and narrow; looked at another, one and boundless.