Guidelines for Entering, Abiding, and Departing Long Meditation Retreats and Sesshins
A Zen priest offers helpful suggestions for seamlessly transitioning between daily life and spiritual sojourns.
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is a Zen priest, author, and artist based in New Mexico. Her most recent book is Opening to Darkness: Eight Gateways for Being with the Absence of Light in Unsettling Times.
Meditation Is Not Required
A Dzogchen-inspired teaching on freeing the mind from ideas of meditative achievement
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
A Glimpse of the Unseen
A brief teaching from a Zen priest
To Drink Tea Is to Taste the Earth
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel reflects on drinking tea as meditation practice.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Hunger for Home
For the displaced, "home" is not just a physical location. It is a feeling of sanctuary—one that has been taken from them.
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Buddhist priest reflects on the occasion of the civil rights leader’s birthday.
The Terror Within
Fear and anxiety builds up over a lifetime, but we can release our terrors moment by moment.
Difference and Harmony
An interview with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel about her Buddhist practice and new book Tell Me Something About Buddhism
Dharma Talks
It’s Beyond Me: Freedom from Managing Your Life
Without even realizing it, we wonder how we can "make the most" of our time or what we can "get out of" a particular experience. In her online retreat, Zen Buddhist priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel teaches…
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