http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:31:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Plum Blossom Zendo A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center 5228 Beeler Street Pittsburgh, PA 15217 412.833.5832 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 ... http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2007/06/19/4/ A painting of a rice cake does not satisfy hunger. ZEN SAYING http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/10/06/465/ Talk does not cook rice. ANCIENT PROVERB http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/10/05/464/ Sitting back against the bamboos I am playing my lute and singing, all too softly for anyone to hear-- except my companion, the white moon. WANG WEI http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/10/03/463/ The simplest questions are the most profound.  Where were you born?  Where is your home?  Where are you going?  What are you doing?  Think about those once in a while and watch your answers change. RICHARD BACH http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/10/02/462/ The wind drops, but the flowers still fall; A bird sings, and the mountain is more full of mystery. ZEN SAYING http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/10/01/461/ Yantou and Xuefeng were snowed in on Tortoise Mountainm   Day after day, while Xuefeng stayed up and mediated, Yantou slept.  By the third day Yantou sat up and said:  "Get some sleep.  What are you, a roadside shrine?"      Xuefeng said: "My heart isn't at peace.  I can't fool myself."      Yantou ... http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/09/30/460/ My boat and I ... enter the lake, turn as night falls toward the west where I watch the south star over the mountain, and the rising mist, hovering over the water, and the low moon slanting through the trees: And there I choose to forget every worldly matter and be only an old man out ... http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/09/29/459/ From birth to death it's just like this. ZEN SAYING http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/09/28/458/ A skeptic walks up to a Zen master and asks:  "Is there life after death?"      "How should I know?" the master replied.      "But you're a Zen master!"      "Yes," the Zen master says, "but not a dead one." ZEN MONDO http://plumblossomzendo.myfastsite.com/2008/09/27/457/