What’s a Black Bodhisattva to Do?

by Sangha News editor | Apr 15, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, Zen Practice

by Kyva Holman After an incident occurred close to home, Green Gulch resident Kyva Holman reflects carefully on how to juggle myriad considerations where race and Buddhist practice intersect with the complex conditions of our modern world. Kyva shares his personal...

Painting Enlightenment (A Preview): The Art and Science of the Heart Sutra

by Sangha News editor | Mar 31, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, Programs, Zen Practice

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Suzuki Roshi in the South: Introducing Chapel Hill Zen Center

by Sangha News editor | Mar 30, 2015 | Features, Zen Practice

A Branching Streams sangha profile Red Cedar Mountain Temple, perhaps better known as the Chapel Hill Zen Center (CHZC), is the only Soto Zen temple in Suzuki Roshi’s lineage located in the southeastern United States. “Red Cedar” refers to the many cedar trees on our...

Book Review for Zenju Earthlyn Manuel’s The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender

by Sangha News editor | Mar 24, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Programs, Zen Practice

Published by Wisdom Publications, 2015 Review by Shahara Godfrey Reverend Zenju Earthlyn Manuel has written a thoughtful and poignant book titled The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender. As a black lesbian Zen priest, she invites us to...

Zen’s Disruptive Tradition

by Sangha News editor | Mar 24, 2015 | Features, News, Programs, Zen Practice

The first in a series of monthly updates on the Sangha Project, from Robert Thomas Can we use technology to wake up and experience liberation? Zen has a long tradition of using disruptive practices to wake up. Just sitting, or zazen—the core of Zen practice—is an...