The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...

As the third chime of a bell faded, a meditation session at Stone Mountain Zendo on Oct. 27 began. Sitting on "zafus," a type of mat, a small group of people faced the wall and meditated in silence.

Drakka (standing) demonstrates acupressure to relieve anxiety during a Langton Garden meditation session. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find ...

After downing some unmentionables one night in college, a friend had a vision involving life force, a river and thrones. The way he explained it, the experience beat the hell out of Philosophy of ...

Soto Zen Buddhist priest-in-training Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach shares a personal story when trying to explain Buddhists' appreciation for "nonattachment." "My first pottery instructor came up to me and ...

Some Mauians got a taste of Zen Buddhism. Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, Japan, gave a course in Zen cooking to about 40 people in two sessions at the ...

Jim Gordon sits on one of the benches in the Green Mountain Zen Center where he leads meditation. At right is the zafu, or cushion, at the Ino station where the meditation leader sits on the floor to ...