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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Dream

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Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. -- Children's Song The 17th cent...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Perfection of Melancholy

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 After teaching an on-line retreat last weekend for Irish mindfulness trainees and teachers, I was inspired to go back to a book I bought, o...
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Monday, August 17, 2020

A Zoom Retreat in Ireland

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 Earlier today David and I finished teaching a four day retreat in Ireland, hosted by the Mindfulness Centre.  Our hosts were the talented a...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Darkness is Asking to Be Loved

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 The other day I was in the grip of a difficult mood: politics, the pandemic, global warming and racism, sexism and anti-semitism were all m...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Sangha Treasure Sesshin

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Here at Boundless Way Temple we just completed our three day online "Distant Temple Bell  Sesshin"  -- a time for intensive Zen pr...
Monday, June 22, 2020

The Courage to Live

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In 1994, Rwanda experienced a civil war in which close to a million people, many of them ethnic Tutsi,  were slaughtered.  Statistics vary,...
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

BoWZ Guiding Teachers' Response to Institutional Racism

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Dear Boundless Way Zen Sangha and friends, We, the Guiding Teachers of Boundless Way Zen, grieve the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Br...
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Melissa Myozen Blacker
I am a Soto Zen priest and teacher. I worked at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School for many years, and have now retired to full-time Zen teaching. I am the abbot of the Boundless Way Zen Temple organization, with its main temple in Worcester, MA and practice groups online, throughout the US and internationally. www.boundlessway.org
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