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Tag archives: Glasgow Zen Group

Snow Chanting

Walking in Glasgow in the beautiful soft snow chanting the short Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo Sutra 💚❄️ Please join me and friends from the Glasgow Zen Group on Sunday 7th of March @12.30pm UTC+0 …

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18 February, 202118 February, 2021Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Buddhism, Chanting, Glasgow Zen Group, Scotland, Soto Zen

Shakyo – bringing the Sutra to life with each brush stroke and pen mark

Our first online Shakyo 写経 practice event saw us come together from Scotland, and elsewhere such as the rest of the UK and Canada, forming a lovely group of sutra …

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11 June, 202016 June, 2020Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Glasgow Zen Group, Shakyo, Shodo calligraphy, Soto Zen

Working on Tenzo Zen Cooking Notes…

In the last couple of weeks, with the kitchen work still fresh in my mind since being up at Ardfern with the Zen Group, I started getting some notes jotted …

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6 July, 201330 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: cooking and food, Glasgow Zen Group, Poetry, Soto Zen

Into the Atlantic Ocean to Oban and Colonsay on the Waverley

At the end of last week I sailed on the famous Waverley for the first time, the last ocean going paddle steamer, with my pal Bruce Peter, writer and maritime …

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4 June, 201229 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, Glasgow Zen Group, photography, Scotland, sketchbook, travel, video art

Drawing and walking through the cityscape

In the last week I’ve been wondering around the urbanscape continuing and trying to develop my recent series of more free drawings. The Sketchbook Monster is on the loose. The …

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14 May, 20125 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting, Glasgow Zen Group, photography, sketchbook, walking

Depth of Reflection – notes on David Lynch and Dogen

I made this small visual note after running along the Firth and Forth Canal, the reflections can be so deep, somehow reality is deepened. The space is literally deeper, becoming …

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12 April, 201230 July, 2019Posted inCulturalTags: David Lynch, Dogen, Glasgow Zen Group, photography, Poetry, Soto Zen, Zazen

A thought on Zazen and painting

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Zazen Silent movement Passing through the stillness And empty form. This wee haiku is a thought on zazen and experience. After my recent studio shift, zazen and considering the looser …

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5 February, 201228 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Glasgow Zen Group, Haiku, Poetry, Zazen

New Year Zen Retreat

Over the new year weekend I went to the inaugural Glasgow Zen Group retreat, or sesshin, at Kagyu Samye Dzong in Glasgow’s west end. Every morning up at half past …

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10 January, 201228 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: cooking and food, Glasgow Zen Group, Soto Zen, Zazen

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