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My son was 1 year old when I was diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer. It happened the day after Halloween. The night before, he was dressed as a baby lamb. Suddenly, I felt like I was taking a lamb to slaughter.
I had imagined motherhood as the work of keeping a child safe. I had never imagined that I might be the safety he would lose. Overnight, I became a mother...
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Once, decades ago, at the Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA) on Great Dragon Mountain, situated since 1967 on Normandie Avenue in Koreatown, my fellow Zen practitioners and I were gathered in the big empty room of the Dharma Hall for a teisho. A teisho is a formal talk given by a Zen teacher that, translated from Japanese, means something like “presentation of the shout....
“This is not some exalted, abstract idea of emptiness, of the absolute. It is enlightenment in everyday life.”
—Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, A Little Bit of Zen
“I invite you to bear witness, and in your mind, to ask, ‘What will I do?’ You have many options. Choose one.”
—Bernie Glassman<...
Simply being there.
There is neither past nor future, only the present.
This moment, severed from all events and distinctions.
From emptiness, all things come into being.
An immeasurably deep darkness is filled with infinite possibility.
As th...