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  1. 🪷 Live Guided Zen Meditation — Today! Thursday at 7 PM ET
    Join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a deeply calming and transformative meditation session—live on YouTube.

    ✨ We’ll explore:
    • Breath, Sound & Mantra meditations
    • Awareness practices
    • Koan (critical phrase) inquiry
    • Tips for integrating Zen into everyday life

    📿 Whether you're new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this session will help you return to clarity, presence, and the true nature of mind.

    🗓️ Thursday, August 7 at 7 PM ET
    📺 Watch live or anytime after:
    youtube.com/watch?v=_lWOUUciRQ

    💬 Includes a live Q&A in the chat

    #Zen #GuidedMeditation #Mindfulness #KoanPractice #MantraMeditation #PureAwareness #ZenArtCenter #Consciousness #KwanseumBosal #DharmaTalk #Buddhism

  2. 🌱 Everything begins with a seed in your mind.

    Each thought, intention, or question you hold has the power to take root and grow.

    What are you planting today?

    🧘 Dharma Talk tonight at 7 PM ET
    Join us live: youtube.com/watch?v=dp0Uvk9MVC

    #zen #mindfulness #meditation #planttheseed #intention #awareness #consciousness #spiritualpractice #kwanseumbosal #zenart

  3. 🪷 Livestream + In-Person Dharma Talk 🪷

    Thursday, July 18 @ 7 PM ET

    Join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a powerful new talk:
    “Zen and the Nature of Mind: Awareness, Energy, and the One Mind”
    We’ll explore the ancient Zen teaching that “Mind is Buddha,” drawn from the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Mazu Daoyi, and Bodhidharma’s Four Statements—with meditation practices to clear the mind and open the heart.

    🌐 Watch Live: youtube.com/watch?v=dp0Uvk9MVC
    📍 In-Person: 86 Joy Street, Studio 5R, Somerville, MA
    Discover how your mind is not just thought—but a prism of universal awareness.
All are welcome.
    #Zen #Mindfulness #DharmaTalk #Consciousness #Meditation #OneMind #ZenMaster #KwanseumBosal #Buddhism #ZenArtCenter

  4. 🌍 Why is Zen Important in a World Full of Suffering? 🧘‍♂️

    Tonight—Thursday, 4/17 from 7–8 PM EST

    With so much pain, fear, and injustice unfolding across the globe, many people ask: Shouldn’t we be doing something more important than sitting in meditation?

    In this Dharma talk, I’ll share why Zen is not an escape from the world—but the foundation for true clarity, compassion, and action.

    Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon will guide a short meditation, tell the story of my own stroke and recovery, and share one of Zen’s most powerful koans about karma and awakening: Baizhang and the Fox.

    🕖 Tonight | 7–8 PM EST
    📍 In person: 86 Joy St, Studio 5R, Somerville MA
    🔴 Streaming live on YouTube with Q&A to follow
    📺 Watch here → youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-89dp2IQ

    Let’s explore how Zen gives us the strength to face suffering—and the wisdom to respond with compassion.

    #ZenPractice #DharmaTalk #FreedomOfMind #KwanseumBosal #Mindfulness

  5. Willow

    A daddy’s girl Buddhist funeral.

    Willow grooming her daddy. (Source: the author of this poem.)

    A lynx-point female Siamese cat
    Willow was her assigned name
    Truly, she was a daddy’s girl
    She never learned claw control
    When this girl showed her love
    She’d put her paw on your arm
    And immediately drew blood
    Still, I let her do it. No fuss from me
    Because she was my sweet girl

    When I went to bed at night
    She’d come and sit on my chest
    I’d use both hands to caress her
    And she would be in bliss, smiling
    When she had enough, she settled down
    And slept against me in the darkness
    During the day, she’d groom me
    Using her extremely rough tongue
    It was difficult to bear at times
    Still, I let her do it. No fuss from me
    Because she was my sweet girl

    Then one day she did not feel well
    After many vet visits, a diagnosis
    It was feline leukemia, a cancer
    We tried one treatment, then the next
    She was not improving, resisted her care
    The fateful decision came one day
    Enough was enough, for our furry girl
    Our little girl purred for us no more
    Except when she managed to drag herself
    Into the shower of our master bathroom
    To sit in the water there after we used it

    We set an appointment for euthanasia
    I scrambled to create a ceremony for her
    To be performed at the appointed time
    When the time was upon us, we cried
    I opened the altar, recited the Metta Sutta
    This sutta partially reads like this:
    “As a mother would risk her life
    to protect her child, her only child,
    even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
    with regard to all beings.”

    The veterinary euthanized our baby Willow
    Fighting back the tears, I started chanting
    My voice, booming in the room, invoked them
    Kwan Se Um Bosal to shower compassion on her
    “Namu Kwan Se Um Bosal”
    Jijang Bosal to guide her in the hereafter
    “Namu Jijang Bosal”
    Sogamuni Bul to lead her to enlightenment
    “Namu Sogamuni Bul”

    I promise to carry you, dear baby Willow
    Deep in my heart for as long as I can

    Willow died a few years back. I no longer spend my days crying over her, like I did just after she died. However, this poem brought back emotions and I did cry while writing it. I do miss my girl.

    The quote from the Metta Sutta is from:

    “Karaniya Metta Sutta: Good Will” (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.than.html .

    #AutisticWriters #Buddhism #cats #funeral #JijangBosal #KwanSeUmBosal #MettaSutta #poem #SiameseCats #SogamuniBul #Willow #YourAutisticLife

    https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/02/05/willow/

  6. "The Jewel In The Lotus" Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ (praise to the Jewel in the Lotus.) Kwanseum Bosal (also known as Guanyin and Avalokiteshvara) is the embodiment of compassion. Wishing you 10,000 ways of good luck! Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon @buddhism #zenartist #art #zenmaster #zenart #zen #Buddha #buddhism #buddhist #buddhistart #bodhisattva #kwanseumbosal #Guanyin #Avalokiteshvara #aiart #AI #aiartist #midjourney #digitalart #art #spirituality