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Mindful Running as a Way to Greater Joy and Equanimity

Stuart McLeod running in RUNZEN shirt

Over the last five years, I have been offering workshops that blend a range of mindfulness-based practices with running and explore what it means to bring a mind orientated towards present moment awareness into physical activity.

My work in this area in fact began in 2017 when I co-created and supported a five-day WCF retreat led by Jake Lyne, which we called Zen Meditation & Running. Based at…

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Categories: 2024 , Other Articles , Others , New Chan Forum 65

The Diamond Sutra

Edd Phillips

The Diamond Sutra is one of the most well-known of the Prajnaparamita sutras (perfection of wisdom texts) of Mahayana Buddhism and takes the form of a discourse between the Buddha and one of his elder disciples, Subhuti, before a large assembly of monks. In this encounter, the Buddha strips away one by one his disciple’s misconceptions and doubts, each time refining the questions posed. Throughout…

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: 2024 , Other Articles , Others , New Chan Forum 65

Purification

Jake Lyne head and shoulders

Look up!
Soot grey snowflakes
dancing, whirling, falling, landing –
white side up.

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: Poetry , Jake Lyne , New Chan Forum 65

Book Review: Illumination by Rebecca Li

Cover of Illumination by Rebecca Li

A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method

This book feels familiar, like a homecoming, with its frequent references to Masters Sheng Yen, John Crook and Simon Child – Rebecca Li’s three teachers to whom she dedicates it. It is also simultaneously very challenging.

Rebecca’s background, born in Hong Kong and then studying in America while being the regular translator for Master Sheng Yen over…

Western Chan Fellowship CIO

Categories: 2024 , Book Reviews , Others , New Chan Forum 65

The Edge of a Cloud

Simon Child headshot

Today we have a blue sky, with a few little clouds. Yesterday we had plenty of clouds but not so much blue sky. Weather changes. Clouds slide around in the sky. Of course the sky is always blue, but we can’t always see the blue because of the clouds. How do we understand the cloud? A fluffy object floating in the sky; if we know what it’s made of we think of it as water drops. Sometimes it sinks…

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Categories: 2017 , Dharma Talks , Simon Child , New Chan Forum 65

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