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.

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Mute the Commentary

Letting mental chatter be can lessen our clinging to anguish.

By Charlotte Joko Beck

Mar 27, 2021

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Attention Means Attention

Zen master Charlotte Joko Beck on paying attention

By Charlotte Joko Beck

Fall 1993

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The Issa Wilderness

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Sep 28, 2021

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Stepping Back onto the Silk Road

An ambitious retrospective lets us view China’s ancient network of Buddhist caves at Dunhuang through the lenses of pioneering photographers James and Lucy Lo.

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Fall 2021

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Since the time of Galileo, science and religion have increasingly appeared to be at odds, with religion slowly but surely losing the battle, B. Alan Wallace observes. His series presents a paradigm in which science and religion join together in a spirit of radical empiricism and open-minded, experiential inquiry.

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Sep 2021

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