Brian Trehearne: A Continuing Archive

Poems, readings, notebooks, meditations

Category: Meditation Journal

  • Shikan-taza again

    Today before meditating I read my earlier post on shikan-taza again.  I wanted some refreshment of method, a sharper sense …

  • Particular outcomes

    I’ve written often in earlier entries of the danger, or at least error, of seeking particular outcomes to one’s meditation. …

  • See your nature

    The burden, in the old sense of the refrain, of Bodhidharma’s “Bloodstream Sermon” is “see your nature.”  As in, …

  • Eyes open

    I sat today with eyes open, perhaps only for a change of practice, to see what might eventuate.  My method …