Sunday, August 20, 2017. If you visit Oxford,. You are warmly invited to come and sit with our new group,. It is an experimental group, with no headquarters and no leadership,. Just the hope that individual members will take turns to open their homes for zazen. This exchange of hospitality leading to deep-rooted, meaningful sangha. Thursday, January 22, 2015. I am delighted to announce the opening of Prague Rinzai Zendo.

Teachings and practices for the solitary or independent Zen practitioner. Sunday, March 10, 2013. To only practice Zen in the confines of the Zendo is to be deceived by forms. The Zendo walls are not the walls spoken of by Bodhidharma, nor are the walls of any cave. The walls you must see and stare down are the obscurations that you have created in your own mind. Break free from your narrow views and enter the Dojo of Nature. See that there are no boundaries and that every limitat.

Friday, July 1, 2016. Innocent heedlessness is unskillfulness; it is heedlessness that is born from unknowing. When control of another is not an option, how can we proceed skillfully, without causing suffering either to ourselves or others? When the ground is overturned, how much more fertile is the soil? When we cannot skillfully interfere in the actions or words of another, what can we do? When is it alright to let go of our desires, but not go past our limits, to allow for the healing of another? .