DON’T SAY “I CAN’T KEEP KOSHER!” (Recipes contributed by Jennifer- kosher ingredients all from CIW canteen unless otherwise noted) 1)Lemon Icing: sugar substitute lemon squeeze plain creamer Mix above ingredients to desired consistency and sweetness. Can use as icing for cookies or as a topping for fruit such […]
THE LINT IN MY BELLY CHAKRA Hi everyone! So, if you’re not familiar with my blog welcome to the Zendo! If you are familiar with it, be ready for this post to be a departure from the norm. One thing I cannot stand is ill considered advice – […]
RADIO SHOWS- JEN’S PICKS (as of January 2020): Monday thru Friday: 6 a.m. 88.3fm (various science programs -physicist Michio Kaku and others- most weekday mornings)* 8 a.m. 90.7fm “Democracy Now!” (world/national news/interviews – host Amy Goodman) * 9 a.m. 90.7fm “Tom Hartman” (educational-progressive talk/interviews/call in) * 10 a.m. […]
Visualization is often an important part of both personal and worldly transformation. It is, after all, the bridge between the unreal and the real. We all like to think we are good visualizers, don’t we? But, as with all things, the proof of the pudding is in the […]
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF Hello Folks! Peace be with you, live long and prosper,and all of that good stuff. I would like to formally welcome anyone reading this now to “Am I Jewish Yet?” Over the last year, I have begun to spend a lot of time […]
HAPPY BABY POSE-RS Hello fellow travellers. Yes, I know it seems as though neither of us is moving right now. I’m on my futon like top bunk and you’re probably at your desk or something. But I promise you we are at this moment also zipping round and […]
HUNGRY GHOST WRITER Welcome folks back to the Zendo. Hope you’ve been well. Some people no doubt continue to wonder how I can consider that I am in a monastery right now. If I am crazy, I am not alone in my thinking. Buddhist teachings on the Four […]
CATCHING UP WITH THE ZENDO Hello and Namaste’ to anyone who has happened upon this blog today or tomorrow, which of course is still today. Any of you who is curious about this blog and about meditation in particular may wish to check out my earlier post entitled […]
BUILDING A BETTER BEGGING BOWL Welcome fellow humans to the Zendo! (no offense to any internet savvy quadripeds out there- you are sentient beings too!) A while back we had a Buddhist group from San Diego visit the “Zendo”. They are different from the monk who teaches us […]
SNORKELLING IN THE SEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS Learning to swim was very difficult for me. All summer long I watched other girls retrieve coins from the bottom of the deep end, girls who’s blond hair had begun turning green from swimming so many laps in the chlorine laced pool. […]
GOING WITH THE VINYASA Hello, everyone. How does it feel to be a sentient being today? I must say, it’s been strange times here at the Zendo. Upheaval and upset seem to be the rule. There’s been a tragic death, friends who were expecting to go home and […]
THE CHAKRAS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND Hello everyone -welcome to the Zendo book club! (Just kidding, but hey- that gives me an idea for another blog )I just read a book by the great Buddhist author Jack Kornfield on the cycles of spiritual life. In […]
REALITY BITES I think I’ve said something like this before in a previous post, but I will say it again here. For me, Buddhist and yogic practices are better together, like peanut butter and chocolate. Or like a beef hamburger patty and cheese, which even my Jewish friends […]
THE GURU: A WEIGHTY PROBLEM So, Steve Jobs is a tech guru. Martha Stewart is a lifestyle guru. Charles Schwabb was a financial guru. Guru, guru, guru. We all want to barf now, yes? What is this elevated status we award to anybody who supposedly knows more about […]
A FLY IN THE GHEE So, none of us is perfect, right? Such is the case with my last post. I’m talking typos. As a blogger, sometimes errors are due to my poor typing skills. However, more often than not Jpay’s spell check program changes the spelling of […]
TENDING THE TEMPLE Greetings sentient beings! As some of you may be aware, in my last post I talked about the sudden cessation of my anger a few years ago. As a continuation of that theme I would like to share that since taking up yoga and meditation […]
ACHIEVING “NERVE”-ANA Hello sentient beings! I hope wherever you are this day finds you well. So, let’s just jump straight into it, shall we? In my last post I promised to share more about me (gulp!) Okay, here goes. Those of you who have been reading this blog […]
WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL SANGHA Hello and Namaste’ everyone. Please come and hang out in the “circle” if you wish. That’s what we do in our Monday night mindfulness group- we form a big circle in the middle of the room. When latecomers trickle in, well that circle […]
SHAKING THE BODDHI TREE I think most of us can agree that meditation is not a religion nor is it necessarily Buddhist. Many have tried to define meditation and unfortunately have, imho, introduced some erroneous ideas in the attempt. For example, people in the mental health field may […]
ZENDO INTERRUPTED So, I figured I’d come out of meditation for a little while and explain some things about this blog. You see, as a meditator, I acknowledge that sometimes things happen and we need to have thoughts about them. I call it being “thinky”. As I said […]
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIPASSANA For better or for worse, mindfulness has broken outside the cage of Buddhism. Having won its freedom, it seems to have descended upon our society out of the clear blue sky like an UFO landing. Like all obedient little abductees, all of a sudden […]
(Note from Suzie: My laptop is not working properly at the moment, so I am temporarily posting blogs using screenshots on my cell phone. Thanks for your understanding.)
WHAT’S BUDDHISM GOT TO DO WITH IT? I think it’s fair to say most people today no longer think of the Buddha as the fat, laughing bald man you see at the Chinese restaurant. You know, the one who’s belly you are supposed to rub for luck, like […]
Hello and Namaste` to all. Yes, that means everybody reading this right now and everybody else on the planet and the universe regardless of whether they are aware of the existence of this blog. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Spirit currently assuming the form of a […]
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