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Art, Poetry, Meditation, and Dharma by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon.
Part of the Mind Light Way School of Zen
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Guided Koan Meditation — 12/4/25 at 7 PM ET

Breathwork → Crystal bowl sound meditation → Koan contemplation.

Quiet the mind. Open awareness.

Livestream on The Zen Art Center YouTube channel:
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#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #GuidedMeditation #KoanMeditation
Guided Meditation 18 | Koan Meditation for Awareness & Clarity | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This #GivingTuesday, help keep Zen alive in the world.
Your support sustains free teachings, creative practice, and a community rooted in compassion.
🪷 Give today → mindlightway.org/take-action

#Zen #Compassion #Community #Awakening
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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What is Zen?

What is a master?

What does it mean to master the mind?

Join us on The Path to Mastery tomorrow at 7 PM ET live on YouTube:
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#Zen #ZenMaster #Mindfulness #ClearMind #KoreanZen #KoanPractice
What Does It Mean to Be a Zen Master? | The Path to Mastery | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This season, clear your mind & open your heart. 🍁
Thanksgiving Zen | Guided Meditation for Gratitude & Forgiveness
🕖 Nov 6 | 7 PM ET
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#ThanksgivingMeditation #Zen #MindLightWay
Thanksgiving Zen | Guided Meditation for Gratitude & Forgiveness| ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The Zen Art Center & Mind Light Way School of Zen has offered over 118 hours of free classes and workshops, reaching more than 400 people in person and 3,000 worldwide!

Help us spread compassion through Zen practice. Support our mission for 2026!

🪷 Give today → mindlightway.org/take-action
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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What is Zen?
Join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a koan meditation and talk on direct awareness and insight.
Watch live here 10/11 @ 7PM ET:
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#Zen #Meditation #Awareness #Consciousness #Koan #DharmaTalk #Mindfulness #ZenArtCenter
What Is Zen? | Koan Meditation for Insight and Awakened Awareness | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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What did early Zen masters really mean by Zen (Chán/禪)?
Not a technique, but a way of living from clarity —
the path of direct insight and freedom in each moment.

Read the new article ↓
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#Zen #Chan #Dhyana #ZenHistory
Unpack what “Zen” really meant to early Chán masters, from scripture to practice. — MIND LIGHT WAY
Discover how early Chán (Zen) masters defined 禪, tracing its roots in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Huineng, and Mazu to a living definition today.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Help us sustain a thriving community where Zen, creativity, and compassion awaken as a loving light in the world. Consider making a donation for our fundraising drive for 2026!!!
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Keep the Light Shining
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October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🪷 Live Guided Zen Meditation Tonight at 7 PM ET 🪷
This practice will guide you into clarity, calm, and presence—helping you integrate awareness into every moment of daily life.
📺 Watch live on The Zen Art Center YouTube channel: [link]
#Zen #GuidedMeditation #Koan
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Guided Meditation | Breath, Mantra, Koan & Pure Awareness Practice| ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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October 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The Two Entrances and Four Practices is a map of the Zen Way.
Not a doctrine—just a path.
Insight, joy, and wisdom arise when you focus on the process, not the goal.
Read more: www.mindlightway.org/zen-history-...

#ZenPractice #NonSeeking #Mindfulness #Zen #Bodhidharma
The Two Entrances and Four Practices — MIND LIGHT WAY
Explore The Two Entrances and Four Practices, one of the earliest Zen texts attributed to Bodhidharma. This foundational Chan Buddhist teaching offers a clear path to awakening through accepting suffe...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Is it intuition—or just another thought? 🌿

In this Dharma Talk + Guided Meditation, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon shows how Zen practice clears the mind, deepens insight, and helps you live with wisdom.

▶️ Watch here:
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#Zen #Intuition #Wisdom #Mindfulness #DharmaTalk
Guided Meditation & Dharma Talk | Intuition, Insight, and Wisdom | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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September 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🌿Zen practice for clarity, intuition, and insight in every moment.

Join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a guided meditation + Dharma Talk on insight, wisdom, and Zen practice (koans, sitting & moving meditation).

Live-streaming, Thursday 9/18, 7-8 PM ET:
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#zen
Guided Meditation & Dharma Talk | Intuition, Insight, and Wisdom | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🪷 Live tonight at 7 PM ET!
Zen Meditation & Dharma Talk with Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon.

📍 Zen Art Center, 86 Joy St, Studio 5R, Somerville
💻 Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHet...

Discover breath, mantra, sound & koan practice—ending in pure awareness.
#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness
Guided Zen Meditation & Dharma Talk | Breath, Mantra, Sound & Koan | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The brain doesn’t explain the mystery of mind. 🧠✨

In this Dharma Talk & Meditation, we explore why consciousness is the foundation of reality — and what that means for love, compassion, and awakening.
📺 Watch the full talk:
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#Zen #DharmaTalk #Consciousness #Buddhism #Koan
Zen Mind & Consciousness: Love, Creation, & The Nature of Reality | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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August 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🪷What are the Four Statements of Zen?🪷

“不立文字，教外别傳，直指人心，見性成佛。”

A new blog post explores their origin, translation, and meaning today.

"Directly pointing to the mind-heart..."

Read:
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#Zen #Bodhidharma #ZenBuddhism #Mindfulness #ZenHistory
PART 5 | The Four Statements of Zen — MIND LIGHT WAY
Explore the origin, meaning, and enduring relevance of the Four Statements of Zen—concise teachings pointing directly to the mind-heart beyond words.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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🪷 Live Zen Meditation + Q&A
Join us Thurs 8/7 @ 7 PM ET on YouTube!
• Breath & mantra practice
• Sound + pure awareness
• Koan meditation
• Moving meditation tips
Hosted by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon

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#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #Koan #Consciousness #ZenArtCenter
Guided Zen Meditation: Breath, Mantra, Koan & AMA with a Zen Master| ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🍎 What does mind have to do with Zen?
This month’s newsletter explores the One Mind teaching of Bodhidharma & Mazu—through a seed, a tree, and a ripe apple.
Read & reflect:
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August 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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What did Bodhidharma really teach? 🪷

The Lidai Fabao Ji tells of silent mind-to-mind transmission, and a mysterious hand-and-fist koan.

Dive into the earliest full account of Bodhidharma in China 👇
🔗 www.mindlightway.org/zen-history-...

#Bodhidharma #Zen #Koan #Chan #ZenHistory
PART 4 | Bodhidharma in the Lidai Fabao Ji: Transmission, Gesture, and the Silent Seal — MIND LIGHT WAY
Discover the earliest full narrative of Bodhidharma in the Lidai Fabao Ji, an 8th-century Chan text that portrays him as a silent transmitter of awakening beyond words. Explore rare translations, hist...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Is compassion something learned, part of human nature, or something inherent in all of nature? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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The Nature of Compassion | THE ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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July 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Can you help someone who doesn't want help? How can you navigate a situation where you want to help someone, but they don't want help? Zen advice for anyone who has ever experienced this.
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#zen #zenmaster #dharma #meditation #mind #compassion
Can You Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help? | THE ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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July 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A 10-minute guided meditation for daily practice. Use the sound of the singing bowl as the mantra for your meditation. Allow the sound to push out all of your thoughts and clear your mind.
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#zen #zenmaster #meditation #mind #spirituality #singingbowl #mantra #soundmeditation
10-Minute Singing Bowl Guided Meditation to Clear Your Mind | THE ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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July 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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What is the mind before thought?
Dive into this question in this month’s Dharma Talk on Zen, mind and consciousness!
There were some livestream issues—but the clean, uninterrupted version is now up:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQM...
#Zen #Mindfulness #DharmaTalk #Consciousness #OneMind #Buddhism
One Mind: Zen, Awareness, and the Nature of Consciousness | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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July 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🌱 Everything begins with a seed in your mind.

Each thought, intention, or question you hold has the power to take root and grow.

What are you planting today?

🧘 Dharma Talk tonight at 7 PM ET
Join us live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0U...

#zen #mindfulness #meditation #planttheseed #intention
A softly textured Zen-style painting showing a seed gently falling into heart-shaped soil, glowing with golden light. The background fades from warm earth tones to deep blue, symbolizing potential and inner growth. Text reads: “Everything begins with a seed in your mind. What are you planting?
July 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🪷 Join Zen Master Sebastian for a Dharma Talk on Zen & the Nature of Mind

🗓️ Thursday, July 18 | 7 PM ET

📍 86 Joy St, Somerville MA

🔴 Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0U...
#Zen #Mindfulness #Buddhism #Consciousness #OneMind #Meditation
One Mind: Zen, Awareness, and the Nature of Consciousness | ZEN ART CENTER | MIND LIGHT WAY
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July 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Where did Zen really begin?
Not in China or Japan—but under the Bodhi tree, and through centuries of Indian transmission. 🌏🧘

🔗 Read the full post:
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The roots of Zen in India — MIND LIGHT WAY
Discover the Indian roots of Zen—tracing its journey from the Buddha’s awakening under the Bodhi tree to the teachings of Bodhidharma and the rich oral traditions that shaped Chán. Explore key sutras,...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM