Cristina Moon

Cristina Moon is a writer, strategist, and Zen priest. She lives and teaches at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple in Honolulu. A pdf version of this article can be downloaded here. "A good analogy for zazen," said the Zen priest instructing me in seated meditation, "is early man hunting. Totally still, totally silent, and totally alert. Seeing, hearing, and feeling everything." "And," he continued, after a brief pause, "ready to jump up and kill something." It was January 2018 and I … [Read more...]