Rusty Ring

This Sunday, 29 October, is National Hermit Day. (I have no idea which nation declared this. The day commemorates an Irish saint, so I...

I've been feeling a bit nostalgic about the old meditation shed I had down at the beach, and it struck me that I've never actu...

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I've used a lot of meditation timers since I started doing this. First was a CD of surf sounds. Two half-hour tracks, Atlantic f...

(A sesshin schedule template is available in Part I . For general tips on sesshin planning, see Part II .) For an activity that...

(For an overview of solitary sesshin, see Part I . For meal planning tips, see Part III .) Planning is the difference between a sust...

(For general tips on sesshin planning, see Part II . For meal planning, see Part III .) I sat sesshin last Friday, and as one of my wor...

Though the word translates as "just enough", oryoki has grown to mind-numbing complexity in Zen monasteries, where every secon...

October is an odd time in North America: for these thirty-one days, you can buy a pumpkin here. Any other time, you get: "What, are yo...

(See this post for an exposition of the art of feeding a sesshin.)

I've been feeling a bit nostalgic about the old meditation shed I had down at the beach, and it struck me that I've never actu...