1 23 16 By The Fire Cooler with showers and bits of mist around we are in a beyond the gates retreat a semi-monastic experiment the Dharma Shop with tools and a bell housing herders and oxen going in and out of the world as it is and in and out of the zendo as… Continue reading Dharma Camp by Roger Groghan
Category: Poems
Self by Kim Woodward
Am I myself? Or is that me looking back from the window pane? Surely I am real for I can pull the shade. And yet, who is pulling the shade?
Mind Watching at Segaki by Roger Groghan
A week of quiet intimacy, We respond to gongs, bells and knocks on wood. Speak only sutras and necessities. Move in meditation amongst ghosts and hells surrounded by power realms and heavens with no eternity We look for forms of wisdom and compassion on some middle path. What am I other than impermanence? Whilst chopping… Continue reading Mind Watching at Segaki by Roger Groghan
Life Practice Prayer Wish
by Doreen Domb 11-20-2011 One breath at a time our working progress individual and collective holding vigil holding the center up — from mind’s hijack peacefully abiding the terrain of body its mindfulness not ever fooled, whilst occupant mind is oft reigning fool’s errand Steady a relinquishing grasp upon the stalking of hope… rather than… Continue reading Life Practice Prayer Wish