Just Snow, Just Now
Illness, aging, and the work of being with what is
Charlotte Joko Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011) was the founding teacher of the Zen Center of San Diego and the Ordinary Mind Zen School. Author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen, Joko Beck was known for synthesizing traditional Zen Buddhist teachings with Western psychology.
Nothing to Forgive
You can measure your dedication to your practice by the length of your list of people you have left to forgive.
To Totally Be Under
A Zen author invokes Shakespeare and a Sufi folk story in a timeless teaching on bearing one’s suffering.
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Attention Means Attention
Zen master Charlotte Joko Beck on paying attention
The Eye of the Hurricane
The late Zen teacher on embracing the difficult edges of the human experience
Life Being As It Is
The Ordinary Mind Zen School teacher on overcoming intrusive thoughts
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
When You Are in Harmony
A brief teaching from a Zen teacher
Mute the Commentary
Letting mental chatter be can lessen our clinging to anguish.
Life’s Not A Problem
Charlotte Joko Beck on everyday practice, American Buddhism, and making koans out of monkeyshines
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