Here at Boundless Way Temple we just completed our three day online "Distant Temple Bell Sesshin" -- a time for intensive Zen practice. This was our second online sesshin, and our tanto, or head of practice, Senior Assistant Teacher Alan Richardson, named it the Sangha Treasure Sesshin. Alternating periods of formal Zen meditation and at-home informal Zen practice, we discovered how to blend all the elements of our lives into one seamless fabric. Grateful bows to my fellow teachers, David Rynick, Roshi, Michael Fieleke, Sensei, and Bob Waldinger, Sensei, as well as to the "sesshin officers" who ran the practice periods and enabled the teachers to offer individual meetings (dokusan) and dharma talks (teisho): Corwyn Miyagishima, Jenny Smith and Adam Monty. And thanks to Senior Assistant Teacher Michael Herzog, who along with Alan, gave beautiful and inspiring evening encouragement talks. And of course the sangha treasure itself: 41 dynamic people of the Way practicing together in our Zoom zendo.
