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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Wandering and Wondering Fall 2022 Sesshin

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 This past weekend we celebrated the arrival of fall and Indigenous People's Day with a three day hybrid sesshin -- around 20 people par...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Near and Far the Same Sesshin

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photo by Corwyn Miyagishima                                                                                                            Our J...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Ready to Fly Sesshin

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  Above are many of the participants in our Spring Distant Temple Bell Sesshin, which the tanto (head seat and retreat manager) Rev. Paul Ga...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The Shining Grasses Sesshin

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photo by Corwyn Miyagishima   The topic for our latest Boundless Way Temple sesshin, taught in our Zoom zendo by David Rynick, Roshi, Dharma...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Seeing into the nature of past and future

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  A big snow storm is headed our way.  The weather folks are predicting one to two feet here in Worcester, and two to three feet east of us ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

And Yet

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  The Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) wrote the following poem after his two year old daughter died: tsuyu no yo wa  tsuyu no yo na...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Great Dreams Sesshin

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  The Boundless Way Temple sangha just completed the last online sesshin of 2021, the Rohatsu Distant Temple Bell Sesshin.  Our tanto, or ...
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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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