(Follow this link to see the October 2024 Priory Newsletter where this was recently published.)

Rev. Mokugen Kublicki, M.O.B.C.

— Great Ocean Dharma Refuge, Pembrokeshire, Wales – UK —

(This article originally appeared in the Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives and the full article can be viewed here.)

Kanzeon sits still amidst the ups and downs of daily life.

Sometimes we know it; sometimes we know it less. Through darkness and light, confusion or sorrow, the Eternal is in pursuit of us, and calls us to return Home. Sometimes we know it; sometimes we know it less.  We ourselves long to return Home. We long for a remembered simplicity of heart and to see with bright, unsaddened eyes. We long to love without fear, just as we long for our lives to be an expression of true purpose.

“One calls and one answers.” At heart these two are the same, and when united are an expression of loving wisdom. When we stray from our purpose the Love of the Eternal is so boundless that just as a magnetic field pulls and draws, so we are called to… Keep reading here.