Hazy Moon Zen Meditation Center of Los Angeles

07/06/2022

Reflections of Summer Ango and Shuso Hossen 2022

Shuso Hossen 2022 by Hazy MoonFrom Ango Opening to the culminating ceremony of Shuso Hossen, Summer Ango 2022 unfolded in a spirit of grace, discipline, and harmony set by Head Trainee Lurleen Honshin Benzian. Truly a “peaceful dwelling” for Ango participants, the training period concluded with ...

01/02/2021

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04/07/2020

News from Hazy Moon Zen Center -

When you stop conceptualizing and actualize the Way, problems seem to solve themselves.

03/05/2020

News from Hazy Moon Zen Center -

Zen koans are not puzzles, riddles or intellectual exercises. A koan is to be experienced. They will aid you in producing a state of full awareness, and as you practice longer, that state will generalize into how you function moment after moment in any circumstance.

12/22/2019

"Maybe human beings are the most stupid creatures in the world. Birds and fish are happy, flying around, swimming around, and humans are the ones who most often fight and complain. Why? We can say it is because we are ignorant, which is true. We are affected by these poisonous aspects of life: greed, anger and ignorance. The most fundamental one is ignorance. How do we treat this ignorance?" — Maezumi Roshi

Opening to Wisdom by Hazy Moon Maezumi Roshi answers the question, “How do we open ourselves to wisdom?” This has always been a big point of argument, this so-called wisdom and how we open it up, acquire it. We have wisdom already, see? And we’re using it! We are intrinsically buddhas. At leas...

11/09/2019

Never Gets Old

"This point of single-minded concentration is and always will be eternal. And yet, most of us don’t feel that it is important enough to make even a lukewarm effort to actualize it. There is nothing else that is equal to it. Everything else you do in life will turn to ashes." Read this powerful dharma talk from our archives.

This Very Point by Nyogen RoshiThose of us who practice are lucky when we encounter difficult times. Before that, we coast along in a comfort zone, thinking that bad stuff will be taken care of and the good guys will win and everyone is going to live happily ever after. We waste a lot of our lives p...

11/06/2019

"His example, this practice, is the way out." A practitioner's review of Mingyur Rinpoche's "In Love With the World."
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In Love With the World by Julie Honmei SniderA review of In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov Nyogen Roshi strongly recommended this book to me because the author writes in detail about what he does with his m...

09/10/2019

Dharma from Hazy Moon Zen Center -

There is a lot of confusion about the Buddhist vow to save all sentient beings. How is it possible? In a new dharma talk, Nyogen Roshi explains that with practice, it's simple, and Buddha demonstrated it with his life and teachings.

08/12/2019

Reading from the book “Awareness” by Anthony de Mello–a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who grew up in Mumbai, India–Nyogen Roshi marvels at how much the Jesuit’s teaching sounds like instructions from masters in the Zen and Tibetan traditions. “Death is not a tragedy at all,” Roshi says, quoting de Mello. “Only dead people fear death. If you overcome the fear of death, you learn what it truly means to be alive.”

The Death of Me by Nyogen Roshi  http://www.hazymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Death-of-Me.mp3Download Reading from the book “Awareness” by Anthony de Mello–a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who grew up in Mumbai, India–Nyogen Roshi marvels at how much the Jesuit’s teaching sou...

07/29/2019

Shuso Hossen ceremony for Lailah Dainin Shima July 27, 2019.
Photos by Derek Hogen Dieter

07/13/2019

You Are the Universe

You are always the manifestation. You are the totality of the universe. You are the wholeness of it all. When we see, it takes our breath away.

The Manifest Koan by Nyogen RoshiPreface to the Assembly:A manifest koan depends solely on right now. The absolute manner distinguishes only itself. If you try to set up gradations or intentionally strive, then all of this is painting eyebrows on chaos, or attaching a handle to a bowl. So how is tra...

06/06/2019

Meet Lailah Dainin Shima, our head trainee for Summer Ango 2019.

Lailah Dainin Shima will sit as head trainee during Summer Ango 2019 at the Hazy Moon Zen Center. In this video statement, Dainin talks about the life-and-de...