Tuesday, June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020


Happy Birthday, Dalai Lama!

 To meet the challenge of our time, 
human beings will have to develop 
a greater sense of universal responsibility.  
Each of us must learn to work, 
not just for his or her own self, family, 
or nation, but for the benefit of all.

- His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama






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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Gail Boreman Bird who died on June 27th at age 75
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Monday, June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020


Be Kind with Yourself


We put emphasis 
on warm heart, 
warm zazen. 

The warm feeling we have 
in our practice
 is in other words 
enlightenment or Buddha's mind.

- Suzuki Shunryu Roshi
Not Always So






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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Gail Boreman Bird who died on June 27th at age 75
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020


The Dalai Lama's Vow
(after Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva)

With the wish to free all beings
I shall always for for refuge
to the Buddha, dharma, and Sangha,
until I reach full enlightenment.

 Enthused by wisdom and compassion
today in the Buddha's presence
I generate the mind for full awakening
for the benefit of all sentient beings.

 As long as space remains,
as long as sentient beings remain,
until then, May I too reamin
and dispel the miseries of the world.



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 Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Gail Boreman Bird who died on June 27th at age 75
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Friday, June 26, 2020

June 26, 2020

The mind and the world are opposites,
and the vision arises where they meet.

 When your mind doesn't stir inside,
the world doesn't arise outside.

 When the world and the mind 
are both transparent,
this is true vision.

 And such understanding 
is true understanding.

 - Bodhidharma


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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

June 25, 2020

The secret of change is 

to focus all of your energy

not on fighting the old,


but on building the new.


- Socrates




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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

June 24, 2020

Traveling at Home
Even in a country 
you know by heart
it's hard to go 
the same way twice.
The life of the going changes.
The chances change 
and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud 
of a new direction.
The natural correction 
is to make intent of accident. 
To get back before dark 
is the art of going.

- Wendell Berry


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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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 Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for Harada Sekkei Roshi who died on June 20th at age 93
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Sapphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Monday, June 22, 2020

June 22, 2020



From Misha's dharma talk on 6/22/20: 
Hope is a Decision
Mahatma Ghandi led the non-violent struggle for Indian independence from British colonial rule, succeeding against all odds.  He was, in his own words, an “irrepressible optimist”.  His hope was not based on circumstances, rising and falling as things seemed to be getting better or worse.  Rather it was based on an unshakable faith in humanity, in the capacity of people for good.  He absolutely refused to abandon his faith in his fellow human beings.  Keeping faith in people’s essential goodness, and the consistent effort to cultivate goodness in ourselves: these are the twin keys...to unleashing the great power of hope. - Daisaku Ikeda:Tricycle, Fall 2017

First, we must keep faith in people’s essential goodness, in their Buddha nature--and our own. Then, through effort, courage, and patience, we must cultivate goodness in ourselves.  The difficulties in our lives are not ‘out there’, but right here in our own hearts and minds.  If we truly want to do something to rectify the injustice in the world and find a way to honor and respect all beings, this is where we must start.  It is our responsibility to acknowledge the consequences of our actions and our Bodhisattva vow to save all beings--starting with this one here.
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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org)  
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please offer bows for Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, who died from COVID-19
  • Please continue to offer bows for Nick Battaglia, Camille Spar's father, who died Aprill 13th 
  • Please continue to offer bows for the family of Alison Templeton, a PS parent, who died on April 1st 
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Saphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

June 21, 2020

From the 
Aboriginal Activists Group, 
Queensland, 1978










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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org)  
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please offer bows for Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, who died from COVID-19
  • Please continue to offer bows for Nick Battaglia, Camille Spar's father, who died Aprill 13th 
  • Please continue to offer bows for the family of Alison Templeton, a PS parent, who died on April 1st 
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Saphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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