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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The Mirror

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 A friend shared a teaching with me this morning from Shams Al-Tabriz, the teacher of the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.  Shams said that p...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

The Chirping Bird Sesshin.

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  Most of the participants from the recent joyous Distant Temple Bell sesshin (Zen retreat) held in our Boundless Way Temple zoom zendo are ...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Buddhas Everywhere

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As Hakuin Zenji sings in his Song of Zazen:  " All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water."   Training the percep...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Masked and Unmasked

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Priest and friend, masked and unmasked  It's been a long time since I posted anything beyond news of events at the Temple.  Something ab...
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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Zoom Jukai

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  Back in December, Boundless Way Temple held its first Zoom jukai ceremony.  In Japanese, the word "jukai" means "taking the...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The Distant Temple Bell Heard Through Beautiful Snow Rohatsu Sesshin

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This past weekend we celebrated one of our Zen holidays, commemorating the morning that our ancestor Shakyamuni Buddha, after a long night o...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Another wonderful sesshin

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 Last weekend we finished our third virtual zoom sesshin, and again, it was wide and deep.  To the left is a screen shot of many of our atte...
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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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