Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Flying with Mazu
An 8th-century Zen master as a 21st-century traveling companion
Leath Tonino
Leath Tonino is the author of two essay collections, both published by Trinity University Press, The Animal One Thousand Miles Long (2018) and The West Will Swallow You (2019).
My New Mantra
A mindfulness practice to “catch” moments hidden in plain sight
Dogen in a Hammock
On learning to appreciate reading difficult texts
Is This Anything?
When we become attuned to the vivid immediacy of each moment, no matter how mundane, the answer is always yes.
The Zen of Cold
Beth O’Halloran tells Leath Tonino her practice was honed by long sits in chilly spaces.
Meditation Advice for ‘Doers’
If doing nothing isn’t your absolute favorite pastime, or if you have a hard time sitting still, try this.
The Haibun Lens
As opposed to haiku, a brief pit stop in the now, the Japanese literary form of haibun shuttles the reader from A to B, teaching us to see the journey as unified and indivisible.
More Poetry for Now and Zen
A series of poems responds to the works of past masters
The Issa Wilderness
Through his haiku on overlooked critters, poet Kobayashi Issa reminds us that the realm of sympathy and concern is limitless.
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