Bright Way Zen meets every Tuesday evening. Find more at www.brightwayzen.org. Sitting with others can significantly strengthen a sitting practice you may have started on your own. All are welcome, regardless of religious affiliation or experience. We meet in the Christ United Methodist Church in Cedar Mill. Led by a qualified Soto Zen teacher, we practice Zen meditation together, and study and discuss Zen Buddhist teachings. Meditation instruction is available, as are meditation cushions, bench …

… Gary Snyder, an American poet, Zen Buddhist, mountaineer, environmental activist, deep ecology philosopher, and founding member of the Beat Generation, says: "It means self-organizing. It means elegantly self-disciplined, self-regulating, self-maintained. That's what wilderness is. Nobody has to do the management plan for it. So I say to people, 'let's trust in the self-disciplined elegance of wild mind.' Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good hu …

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