Student Writings

This is a photo of the galactic core. It is the centre of our Milky Way galaxy in which we live. The Milky Way is of a scale that cannot be comprehended by the ordinary human mind.

I attended my first Sesshin last year and that was a very important experience. The first word that comes to my mind is “intense”.

A cornerstone of Buddhist practice, including Zen, is the vow to ‘take refuge' in the Three Treasures (or Three Jewels), which are the Buddha, the Dharma and the sangha.