I started sitting zazen when I was in college many years ago. My initial reasons for starting to sit were fairly typical for beginning meditators. I wanted to reduce the stress in my life, to help […]

Submitted by a Zen Student at Kannon Do

Monday I was in the art library finishing preparations for the class I had to teach on Tuesday night. It wasn’t going very well – the images I wanted to show couldn’t be made into slides, the […]

Submitted by a Zen student in the financial services industry in the U.K.

Part of my personal sense of mission around humanity in the workplace leads me to give lectures and sometimes do TV appearances. Anyway, when I got back from your workshop at Tassajara […]

Submitted by a Zen Student at Kannon Do

I’m originally from Belarus (former Soviet Union) and I never had a meditation experience in my country. I started to meditate 3 years ago.

After taking my first 40-minute meditation session, I felt a huge improvement […]