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The Sweetwater Zen Center, a spiritual refuge and residential Zen Buddhist training center in National City is holding a ...

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces.

A new exhibit on bonsai at Sonoma Botanical Garden features an exquisite indoor forest in miniature, along with a Zen rock ...

After Taigen Shodo Harada Roshi, the abbot of Sogen-ji- a Rinzai Zen training monastery in Okayama, Japan, visited Washington ...

I offer my congratulations with the sincere hope that you will fulfill that responsibility and contribute to realizing a ...

Buddhism would say you die and then you’re reborn ... then finally to an 18th-century Zen monastery in the mountains of rural Japan. Here, he’d lived an almost ascetic life for a decade and a half, ...

Uncover the key components of a backyard Japanese meditation garden. Learn how to create a serene and tranquil space that ...

the founder of Zen Buddhism. Like an “Okiagari-koboshi” roly-poly toy, daruma are weighted at the bottom so they always quickly return to an upright position when tilted. Thanks to this feature they ...

A 16 th century bronze bell rang 108 times on Sunday during a celebration of the Japanese New Year at San Francisco ... part ...

Shunmyo Masuno, a Zen Buddhist monk devotes an entire section of his book, "How to Let Things Go," to how you can avoid making things more difficult for yourself. Here are his four tips for using ...