Community Highlights

by Reishin Denise LeongZen River SanghaAppleton, Wisconsin Along this wayGoes no oneThis autumn evening -Basho On a mountain, in the woods overlooking a lake, a fire…

by Monshin Kathy Mitchell Wind and Water ZenWoodruff, Wisconsin I’ve sat with a variety of groups, some secular, others Buddhist. In each, the conversation almost…

by Monshin Kathy Mitchell Wind and Water ZenWoodruff, Wisconsin As I reflect on Jun Po as a teacher, one of the things I am most grateful…

All the time I pray to BuddhaI keep onkilling mosquitoes.-Issa Summertime! Such abundance, and aliveness! Beyond words. And yet, and yet… we are blessed with…

Many thoughts arise as the start of sesshin at DBZ gets closer – one of my favorites being a beautiful tale, where acts of kindness…

If you are reading this now, you can thank Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi (1942-2021), founder of Hollow Bones Zen. In the decades of his Zen practice…

Awakening with the EarthThat magic moment… when we once again see a small bud begin to form on a tree branch. A green blade of…

Every December, I share Barbara Crooker’s poem “Solstice” in a dharma talk. She speaks of the despair after 9/11, a despair that remains 23 years…

This is part of a series on the HBZ lineage. Read Part One & Part Two. On April 14, 1942, Denis Kelly began an extraordinary…