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Three simple Zen instructions can change the way you experience your life:Sit.Move.Fully engage.In this direct Dharma te...
05/31/2026

Three simple Zen instructions can change the way you experience your life:

Sit.
Move.
Fully engage.

In this direct Dharma teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon offers a practical path for anyone seeking meditation guidance, mental clarity, and a deeper way to begin spiritual practice.

The instruction is simple: practice five minutes of sitting meditation, thirty minutes of moving meditation, and bring full attention to what is in front of you.

Try it for ten days. Deepen it for one hundred days. See what changes.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/Q5Cc3OD9FTU

Which part of practice feels most important for you right now: sitting, moving, or fully engaging with daily life?

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon gives three clear Zen instructions for anyone seeking meditation guidance, mental clarity, and a practical path toward enlightenm...

Why do Zen students sometimes do simple work without asking “why”?Because Zen practice is not only about understanding. ...
05/28/2026

Why do Zen students sometimes do simple work without asking “why”?

Because Zen practice is not only about understanding. It is about dropping the ego, meeting the moment, and doing what is needed with a clear mind.

In this short teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon shares a practical lesson from temple life: sometimes peace begins when we stop resisting and simply do.

Watch here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/38uVhkuW3FQ

Discover the profound lesson of surrendering ego and the need for 'why' at a Zen temple. Embrace the present moment and find peace in simply doing.Check out ...

What is Zen really a path to?Not a distant goal. Not a final achievement. Not something separate from this life.In this ...
05/27/2026

What is Zen really a path to?

Not a distant goal. Not a final achievement. Not something separate from this life.

In this short teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon uses the metaphor of music to explore Zen as the direct experience of this moment as it unfolds — with attention, response, clarity, and connection.

Life is not something to endure until the ending. Like a song, its meaning is found in the unfolding itself.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/bp184KqUa5E

What helps you feel more present in the unfolding of life?

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores what Zen is truly a path to: n...

Many people have strong beliefs about reality.Some say matter is fundamental.Some say mind is fundamental.Some say God i...
05/26/2026

Many people have strong beliefs about reality.

Some say matter is fundamental.
Some say mind is fundamental.
Some say God is the source of everything.
Some say consciousness is fundamental.
Some say everything is empty.

But before Zen asks us to believe something about reality, it asks a more immediate question:

Before belief, what is here?

This reflection explores Zen, direct experience, belief, and the way our ideas about reality can shape the way we suffer.

Read it here, and subscribe if you’d like to follow these teachings:

A Zen reflection on reality, belief, and direct experience

What does Dharma really mean in Zen practice?It is not simply a belief, doctrine, or spiritual idea. In Zen, Dharma poin...
05/24/2026

What does Dharma really mean in Zen practice?

It is not simply a belief, doctrine, or spiritual idea. In Zen, Dharma points to the truth of what is — right here, in this moment.

In today’s teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores how suffering grows when we keep holding on to thoughts, emotions, memories, and old stories after the conditions have already changed.

Through simple examples of time, weather, identity, memory, and emotional reaction, this talk explains how meditation helps clear the mind so wisdom and compassion can arise naturally.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/NG5DPvtxF4g

What helps you return to what is actually happening now?

In this Dharma teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explains what Dharma really means in Zen: not a fixed belief, but the truth of what is in this moment. T...

What Is Dharma?“Dharma” can sound like a distant spiritual concept, but the question is deeply practical:How do we recog...
05/20/2026

What Is Dharma?

“Dharma” can sound like a distant spiritual concept, but the question is deeply practical:

How do we recognize what is actually happening before old stories, emotions, and assumptions shape how we respond?

Join us for meditation and teaching on how Zen practice helps us meet the present moment with clarity and compassion.

Thursday 7–8pm ET
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0QwxxHgSAU
In person: 86 Joy St., Studio 5R, Somerville, MA

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explains Dharma as the truth of what is...

What if your mind is not a container of thoughts, but a prism of awareness?In today’s teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Riz...
05/20/2026

What if your mind is not a container of thoughts, but a prism of awareness?

In today’s teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the Zen teaching of One Mind through the image of light, energy, prisms, and awareness.

This talk looks at how memory, trauma, habits, love, and conditioning shape the way we experience the world — and how Zen practice helps us see beyond the changing patterns of personality to the deeper awareness illuminating all experience.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/g4M6OuxHqzM

What helps you return to clarity when your inner patterns feel out of tune?

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the Zen teaching of one mind t...

Is your mind just your brain — or is consciousness something deeper?In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon ex...
05/18/2026

Is your mind just your brain — or is consciousness something deeper?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the nature of mind, awareness, emptiness, consciousness, and the direct experience behind thought.

Rather than treating consciousness as only an abstract theory, this talk invites you to look directly at your own experience:

What is mind before thought?

This teaching is for anyone interested in Zen, meditation, nonduality, spiritual awakening, the hard problem of consciousness, and the deeper relationship between mind and brain.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/i-INH-aeTyM

Do you experience mind as something produced by the brain, or as the field in which experience appears?

Is your mind just brain activity, or is consciousness something deeper than the brain? In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the nature ...

What is the self, really?In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the true nature of mind through a ko...
05/13/2026

What is the self, really?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the true nature of mind through a koan rooted in the teachings of Zen Master Mazu and the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra.

Using the image of light passing through a prism, this teaching points beyond thoughts, emotions, memories, and personal identity toward the original awareness illuminating all experience.

If you’ve ever wondered why individual minds seem separate when Zen points to One Mind, this teaching offers a clear and direct reflection.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/1EHUHF7h3hk

What do you think: is “my mind” separate, or a unique expression of something deeper?

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the true nature of mind through a Zen koan rooted in the teachings of Zen Master Mazu and the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. This vi...

What is the difference between clear mind, flow, awakening, and enlightenment?Many people have moments of clarity, still...
05/11/2026

What is the difference between clear mind, flow, awakening, and enlightenment?

Many people have moments of clarity, stillness, awe, or deep presence. But what comes next? How do those experiences become part of ordinary life — in work, relationships, movement, meditation, and difficulty?

In today’s teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explains these states in practical, human terms:

Clear mind is awareness without fixation.
Flow is clear mind in motion.
Awakening is a temporary dropping away of division.
Enlightenment is the full integration of clarity into all conditions of life.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/W9KDTtXQ4AA

Have you ever experienced a moment of deep clarity or flow?

What is the difference between a clear mind, flow state, awakening, and enlightenment—and how do these experiences actually apply to ordinary life? In this t...

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