Zen Wind
Ledbury Whole Foods
82 The Homend
Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
Sundays 7-9pm

   ~ Meditation (zazen and kinhen: instruction given)
   ~ Chanting
   ~ Reading and Discussion (we are currently exploring The Record of Transmitting the Light —       Zen Master Keizan’s Denkoroku)

Zen Wind is householder Zen. Jim Wilson, former abbot of the Chogye temple in New York, established the practice. Jim currently teaches Buddhism in Sebastopol, California. He has given Guy Malkerson permission to teach this Zen practice.

Photograph of Guy Malkerson, Jim Wilson and Tasha Thompson taken by Anne Baker.

“The stillness of zazen and the stillness of earth. Earth supports all creatures without discrimination, judgement or comment. Zazen supports all thoughts, perceptions, impulses and consciousness without discrimination, judgement or comment. Through zazen we become one with elemental earth.

Engaging in zazen we enter the elemental realm, the realm before thinking mind. Almost all of the activity of zazen takes place at such deep levels that cognitive consciousness cannot comprehend it. Nevertheless, cognition relies on the elemental world and could not exist without it. Therefore zazen means returning to the source, engaging in the original process of this fluxing world and thereby benefiting all sentient existence.”

-From ‘Naming the Unnameable’ by Jim Wilson