A guidebook for visitors and volunteers at The Zen Forest, the Zen Buddhist retreat near Actinolite, or Tweed, in the country north of Belleville, halfway between Toronto and Ottawa. A glossary plus information on meditation, Zen, and the retreat.
The book about the Zen Forest Retreat, a Zen Buddhist center in Canada, providing traditional yet distinctly Western Zen training to people of all ages and religious backgrounds. Â
Achaan Chah spent many years walking and meditating in the forest monastery of Wat Ba Pong, engaging in the uncomplicated and disciplined Buddhist practice called dhudanga. A Still Forest Pool reflects the quiet, intensive, and joyous practice of the forest monks of Thailand. Achaan Chah’s humble words, compiled by two Westerners who are former ordained monks, awaken the spirit of inquiry, wonderment, understanding, and deep inner peace. Attachment, according to Achaan Chah, causes all suffering. Understanding the impermanent, insecure, and selfless nature of life is the message he offers for human happiness and realization. To vividly grasp the meaning of attachment leads us to a new place of practice – the path of balance, the Middle Path.
The true story about meetings with a Zen Buddhist monk and Zen master who wanted to write a book about a short-cut to enlightenment in the Zen Forest and what happened right after.
This book is designed to go with the Zen Power Hour workshops which combine Zen meditation, Zen massage like Reiki self-healing massage, Zen energy exercises like qigong, and Zen writing like freefall, plus reclining, sleeping, and walking meditation.
The Way Of The Dragon is an inspirational novel memoir, a spiritual autobiography, about a Westerner in the East who has a moment of profound epiphanic revelation after climbing Big Monk Mountain and meditating in front of a dragon at an ancient Taoist temple compound in Dalian, China.