Our Sangha has chosen a new name: Monmouth Zen Circle - Compassion Ocean Sangha, reflecting that we are no longer sitting in Elberon.  We also chose the dharma name of one of our late founders (Compassion Ocean). We are a group that meets weekly for meditation in the Soto Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki. We usually meet on Saturday mornings in Shrewsbury NJ for one hour of sitting meditation (zazen) and a short period of walking meditation (kinhin). Once a month, we have a dharma talk and a long …

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… Often a solo practitioner my direct link to Source offered me new ways of seeing that I have not been able to find in any current organized religion, but often see many overlapping similarities with Kirya and Tantric Yoga, Zen Buddhism, Gnosis and other intuitive practices. But even more interesting to me is overlap with modern cosmological theories regarding Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Torus Mathematics. Now that I am beginning to perform Dragon Dance I am often asked if I would teach. In …