Empty Moon Zen News Today

Koun Yamada once asked Anne Aitken what she thought of death. “When the bus stops, you get on-board”’ she said.

The majority of the Zen community are householders. Many best described as neither monastics nor laypeople.

To One and then back to the ten thousand things, from the many and to the One, are the same, not two sides of a coin, but the same coin.

Our Universalist strand is awash with miracle and intimations of joy. Taken together the invitation for us here today is a New Universalism.

So, a little drive down our edge of the Pacific Rim, a thousand miles and change at the edge of the world. And it is good to be home.

Zen's sixteen Precepts are sometimes called the Bodhisattva Precepts. The third of these concerns sexual ethics.