“Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is not finished,” says Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi. We must continue it with gratitude on the endless path toward liberation for all.
“Only when we awaken to our own light can we be fully present to another person’s inner light and life,” says Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat. “Only then can we respond fully, with nothing in the way.”
Photo by David Gabriel Fischer.When we truly give ourselves over to practice, explains Roko Sherry Chayat, we let go of our dependence on outcomes and begin to trust just being what we are, buddhanature, revealed right here, right now, in this very body and place.
Female Bodhidharma by Kitagawa UtamaroShinge Roko Sherry Chayat comments on the eighteenth century Japanese story, “The Old Woman’s Enlightenment.”
In response to the US presidential election, Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat says we can turn turmoil into realization, and anxiety into right action.
The Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist Wisdom by Sally Tisdale, reviewed by Roko Sherry Chayat.
Photo by Digital Archaeology.Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat interviews Dai-En Patricia Bennage Roshi on the teacher’s discovery of the Dharma and experiences becoming a nun in Japan.
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