Helen Mirra

Helen Mirra is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and was on the faculty of Harvard University and the University of Chicago. She left teaching in 2013, and has taken formal vows in the Plum Village and San Francisco Zen Center lineages, while identifying more with poet-hermits than with institutions, and is most aligned with early Buddhist teachings.

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Learning with Autisha

A practitioner contemplates the intersection of autism and awakening

By Helen Mirra

May 06, 2021

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How You Think Today Is How You Live Your Life

In an excerpt from her Dharma Talk on the Threefold Practice of Won Buddhism, Rev. Grace Song explains why sound thought is so important.

By Rev. Grace Song

Jun 17, 2021

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A Matter of Life and Death

Thoughts on a classic text about dying and duality from a late Zen teacher

Adapted from a talk by Sojun Mel Weitsman, edited by Hozan Alan Senauke

Summer 2021

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The Threefold Practice of Won Buddhism

In Won Buddhism, the threefold practice—absorption, inquiry, and making mindful choices—maps out the path to spiritual freedom. Rev. Grace Song describes how these principles work together to help us develop a more balanced practice that puts Buddhist wisdom into action in our daily lives.

Rev. Grace Song

Jun 2021

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