Plum Blossom Zendo

plumblossomzendo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:17:32 +0000

What is Zen?

The word “zen” has been used so extensively to market goods and services, that its true meaning and relevance for our time has been often ignored. Throughout the ages, seekers have wrestled with such questions as “Who am I?” and “What is the meaning of life?” Throughout its 2500 year old history, Zen has offered a path to explore such questions.

If you are seeking meaning in your life, please join us for a lecture and orientation to Zen meditation by Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels, a teacher who understands the needs of Americans coming to Zen for the first time as well as those of more experienced practitioners.

Sensei Janet is the guiding teacher of Plum Blossom Zendo and co-teacher in residence at Still Mind Zendo in New York City.

Thursday, March 25, 2010
7:00 PM
Chatham Village Clubhouse
655 Pennridge, Pittsburgh, PA 15211 (Mt. Washington)
$5.00 suggested donation
Refreshments will be served.

For more information, directions, and to register, please contact Beverly Griebling at 412-431-8016 or bgriebling@comcast.net.

plumblossomzendo — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:02:09 +0000

Plum Blossom Zendo
A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center
5228 Beeler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412.687.7128

Plum Blossom Zendo, a Zen meditation center in Pittsburgh formed in 2005, is in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga. Our founder and resident teacher, Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels, is dharma successor to Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy in this Zen lineage as is Sensei Gregory Hosho Abels, the other resident Zen teacher at Still Mind Zendo in New York. Plum Blossom Zendo is an affiliate of Still Mind Zendo. Local experienced and new Zen practitioners are welcome, as are visitors to Pittsburgh who practice Zen.

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When the old plum tree suddenly opens,

the world of blossoming flowers arises.

At the moment when the world of blossoming flowers arises,

spring arrives.

- Dogen, Japenese Soto Zen Master

plumblossomzendo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:44 +0000

Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, usually self-preoccupied veil which partially conceals the world.

IRIS MURDOCH

plumblossomzendo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:20:42 +0000

Be master of yourself everywhere. All you do proves true.

ZEN SAYING

plumblossomzendo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:35 +0000

Words!
The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is
no yesterday
no tomorrow
no today

SENG-TS’AN

plumblossomzendo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:35 +0000

Zen tells man that he is free now, that no chain exists which he needs to throw off; he has only the illusion of chains. Man will enjoy his freedom as soon as he ceases to believe that he needs to free himself, as soon as he throws from his shoulders the terrible duty of salvation.

HUBERT BENOIT

plumblossomzendo — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:19:25 +0000

There is no place to seek the mind;

It is like the footprints of the birds in the sky.

ZEN SAYING

plumblossomzendo — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:31:04 +0000

Only one koan matters: you.

IKKYU

plumblossomzendo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:19:40 +0000

One day Pao-chi was walking with Ma-tsu.
He asked the master: “What is the Great Nirvana?”
Ma-tsu said: “Hurry!”
“What is to be hurried?” said the monk.
“Look at the stream!”

ZEN MONDO

plumblossomzendo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:14:15 +0000

Be content with the moment, and be willing to follow the flow. Then there will be no room for grief or joy. In the old days this was called freedom from bondage. The wood is consumed, but the fire burns on, and we do not know when it will come to an end.

CHUANG-TZU