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12/12/2025

And here is another new web post, this one by Stuart Gendai Hollyoak

In the open air, it was difficult to hear Manu’s instructions clearly. Together, some 15 or 20 of us, barefoot on a field in unseasonably warm weather, followed his direction to become unfamiliar, estranged even, from our bodies. We unlearned how to move our limbs and how to hoist ourselves up aga...

11/12/2025

It's newsletter time again so we have a series of posts appearing on the website. Here is the first from Manu Myoshin Bazzano https://www.stonewaterzen.org/2025/12/manu-bazzano-soul-kitchen/

19/05/2025

Here is another sangha post new on out the website:

My practice is the act of being lost and coming back. It’s a constant journey of drifting in and out of awareness, caught in my own body, mind and ego. I am lost in the swirl of my thoughts, emotions, cravings and distractions, believing in the reality...

18/05/2025

The new issue of the StoneWater Zen newsletter will soon be with us and that means new posts coming on the website from sangha members in the days ahead. Here is the first from Manu Myoshin Bazzano

The car radio on the way to the station after sesshin on this early April morning is playing Smokey Robinson’s “The Tracks of My Tears.” A tender tune, strangely attuned to where I find myself after one of the most intense sesshins in 30 years of...

12/12/2024

Here is another post from the forthcoming newsletter from Mokuin Sensei

It was while I was a resident at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center that I completed the Blue Cliff Record (J: Hekiganroku), the classic koan collection compiled by Setchō Jusen (980–1052). I decided it might be useful to collate my numerous scribbled notes,...

03/12/2024

With a newsletter coming out soon the longer articles will be posted on the website in coming days. Here is the first by Shinro Sensei

It was a great pleasure to be present and participate when Keizan Rōshi gave Denkai and Denbō to Dan Kōjin Bushin Gallagher on 30 October 2024. When thinking about the preparations for Dharma Transmission, I began to reflect on our lineage and the...

05/08/2024

Sharing an interview with Roshi that the Liverpool Echo published yesterday.

David Scott co-founded the Everyman Bistro in 1970 before travelling to Japan

26/06/2024

Here is the final webpost for the week - another article by Emily Koshin Oliver https://www.stonewaterzen.org/2024/06/musings-of-a-second-generation-mystic-emily-koshin-oliver/

25/06/2024

Here is the next in our series of new webposts - At Home Everywhere by Manu Myōshin Bazzano https://www.stonewaterzen.org/2024/06/at-home-everywhere-manu-myoshin-bazzano/

24/06/2024

Here we have another new web post, the first of two from Emily Koshin Oliver on Beauty and Doubt in Thailand. https://www.stonewaterzen.org/2024/06/beauty-and-doubt-in-thailand-emily-koshin-oliver/

23/06/2024

With the summer newsletter about to come out, we have a series of articles by sangha members to share. Here is the first, a book review by Clive Tenryu Lindley-Jones

Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard, (Translated by Jesse Browner. 2023. 702pp. Hardback £28.00) This is a giant, magnificent book in weight and its import, depth, and unique and extraordinary viewpoint. Matthieu Ricard gives us an intimate...

14/04/2024

Last week, during our spring sesshin, two sangha members Andy Daishi Lloyd and Robert Jiso Harris received shukke tokudo, monk's ordination. Congratulations to both!

Pictured with Keizan Roshi and Suigen Sensei.