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Fearless Zen
An excerpt of a conversation between Cristina Moon and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
Reverend Cristina Moon
Reverend Cristina Moon lives and trains at Daihonzan Chozen-ji in Honolulu. She is the author of Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness, about her first three years living and training at Chozen-ji. Moon's writings can be found at www.cristinamoon.com
Approaching Life as Training
How the rigors of monastic practice helped a Rinzai Zen priest to transform her relationship to tiredness and pain
Stand Tall, Cut Straight
The role of the martial arts in spiritual development—Kendo, kiai, and feeling like Beatrix Kiddo.
“Everyone Thinks They’re an Artist”
Ceramics, Zen, and the true purpose of Zen in the arts (and the arts in Zen)
Look Beneath Your Feet
The Zen insight of Trappist monk Thomas Merton
From “Just Culture” to a Just Culture
An Asian American Buddhist on why embodying the cultures from which Buddhism came helps the dharma work on us from all angles.
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