novembre 2016
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour I
Good morning from Montreuil. Quietly awakening here with some green tea and the cat, thinking of all you other retreat participants (those who signed up to join and those who didn't): We're all in this [...]
A perfect place to begin
Sunday afternoon in Montreuil, overcast sky. Unlike this morning, when there was a brilliant sun illuminating the Place Jean Jaurès, which was filled with people buying bread, groceries, flowers, the Sunday papers, visiting the Christmas [...]
The day after: Yes we (still) can
So very difficult to know what to say today and how. And yet I know, like it says in the title of a Japanese Zen master's book: You have to say something. So I will [...]
septembre 2016
Thanks for a perfect beginning
Our opening night last week still seems like a dream. It was a perfect evening, from the dedication ceremony to Norman Fischer's great talk and discussion with participants to the festive party and cleanup that [...]
Opening night!
SOIRÉE D'INAUGURATION DU CENTRE WILD FLOWER Wild Flower Zen Sangha vous invite à la soirée d'inauguration de son nouveau centre parisien le JEUDI 8 SEPTEMBRE de 20h à 22h. En présence de Roshi Catherine Genno [...]
juin 2016
Wild Flower is creating a center in Paris!
And we need your help! (voir texte en français ci-dessous) Since our founding in 2004, we at the Wild Flower Zen Sangha have pursued our mission — to foster liberation for everyone everywhere — [...]
avril 2016
That’s life
A minor disruption in my quiet Sunday night: I had just finished writing something to post here about the end of our retreat when somehow it all got wiped out. Gone forever. Like the retreat... Now [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day V
Not much time to post this morning between sitting and moving on into the rest of the day. Some days are like that... Magnificent sun in Paris this morning. Nothing can resist the light, the [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour IV
Early morning in Paris, only a moment before heading off to work. Worked yesterday, too, so my sitting was brief, brief but whole, nothing outside of it for those few minutes. What lies ahead today? [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour III
Good morning to all from Paris. What lies ahead today? More adventures for us all. Yesterday was all about "I": "I" did some sitting with "I," "I" forgot a Skype session, "I" cleaned out a [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie Day/Jour II
Good morning/Bonjour/Bom dia from Paris. Here we are on the second day of our plunge... Surrounded by a halo of wispy clouds, there was a lovely thin slice of moon high in the dark sky [...]
Heart of Life/Coeur de la vie: Day/Jour I
Good morning from Paris. Here's what I'm thinking about today: When I was a child in America, there was a program on television called "This Is Your Life." A person who had secretly been selected [...]
Join us in the heart of your life
Remember what John Lennon famously said? "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." And what Confucius said? "We have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one." [...]
février 2016
Sweet scrap of light
Brilliantly pale winter sun is stunning the day since early morning here. I breakfast, shower, dress, tend to some business with students, do laundry, make tea, fill a few notebook pages, visit the cat upstairs, [...]
janvier 2016
Sending love to Bernie Glassman
Bernie Glassman, the great elder of our White Plum lineage and a marvelous teacher to so many of us, has suffered a serious stroke and is hospitalized in Massachusetts. His condition is not clear yet, [...]
décembre 2015
At year’s end: Look closely
So here we are, where we always are - right, here, right now. And yet we have never, ever been here before - at this very singular moment, in this unique, distinctive place: I'm at [...]
At République, a moment of collective grace
Everyone has probably heard by now that after her sold-out show in Paris last week, Madonna made an impromptu appearance at the Place de la République, singing three songs with her teenage son and a [...]
novembre 2015
Francis and the way of love
As I was eating breakfast this morning, I heard on the radio that while all the world's great and powerful leaders are gathering not far from my home outside Paris to talk about the climate [...]
Gotta love ’em: Belgians, cats, Dalai Lama
Moving right along, entering our second week after 'the night that changed everything'... Gotta love those Belgians. With Brussels at a standstill amid imminent threat and everybody asked to keep quiet about police operations, people [...]
Life, in all its splendour
So it's been exactly a week. A week since life as we knew it here in Paris was suddenly - in a rampage of bullets and bombs - no more. How far we've come since [...]
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