Off to New York

I’m off to New York for the weekend to talk about Keep Me in Your Heart Awhile among other things. I’ll be at the Ordinary Mind Zen Center on Friday night, Brooklyn Zen Center on Saturday morning, and then at Empty Hand Zen Center on Sunday, including a talk in the morning and a Zazenshin workshop in the afternoon. Details on the sidebar.

I’ll probably miss the ice transforming to water on Bald Eagle Lake (above) and another snow this weekend in Minnesota.

For those of you in the practice period, please begin work with the next passage of Genjokoan:

When the Buddhas are indeed the Buddhas, there is no need to be self-conscious of being Buddhas; nevertheless it is realizing Buddhahood—Buddhas go on realizing.

Also begin studying the commentaries on this section by Sen’ne and Kyogo. I’ll write more and have suggestions for reflection next week.

And I’ll report about what I see and hear in big city.