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Tag: Ethics
Mindfulness & Ethics — Notes from Hamburg’s Int’l Mindfulness Congress
Posted on August 28, 2011 by Alan Senauke
At the end of last week’s International Mindfulness Congress in Hamburg, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was asked whether the practice of mindfulness is inherently ethical. This was, I think, the pressing and recurring question of our conference, which brought … Read more
Zen & Ethical Conduct: An Open Letter to Genpo Merzel
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Alan Senauke
This letter from 66 Western Buddhist teachers was posted yesterday to Dennis Genpo Merzel and to a number of Buddhist publications. It is the followup to a letter that was included in my 23 February posting “The Cloud of Knowing … Read more
The Cloud of Knowing & Not Knowing: Sex, Power, and Sangha
Posted on February 23, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.
— Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
In late January at a gathering of students at Ameland, in the north of Holland, Dennis Genpo Merzel acknowledged … Read more
Turning the Wheel at Zen Studies Society?
Posted on January 1, 2011 by Alan Senauke
This afternoon, ushering in a new year, a new decade, and—I hope—a new turning of the dharma wheel in America, Shinge Roshi Sherry Chayat was installed as abbot of Dai Bosatsu Zendo in upstate New York. I celebrate her new … Read more