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About: Ben Howard

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For the past thirty years I have practiced Buddhist meditation in the Zen and Vipassana traditions. In November, 2002 I received the jukai precepts in the Hakuin-Soen lineage of Rinzai Zen at Dai Bosatsu Zendo. Until my retirement in 2006, I taught literature, writing, classical guitar, and Buddhist meditation at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. I continue to lead the Falling Leaf Sangha, a Zen sitting group for the students and the community. I am the author of twelve books, most recently The Absolute Moment: Essays on Western Zen (2024); Immovable Awareness (2016) ; Firewood and Ashes: New and Selected Poems (2015), The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice (2014), Entering Zen (2011), Leaf, Sunlight, Asphalt (2009) and Dark Pool (2004).

Posts by Ben Howard:

• 2 April 2014 146. Lessons of the selfie

• 19 March 2014 145. Well-met in Belfast

• 26 February 2014 144. This

• 5 February 2014 143. The steady go of the world

• 18 December 2013 142. A space for contemplation

• 4 December 2013 141. A laughing matter

• 20 November 2013 140. No thank-you

• 6 November 2013 139. Ordinary things

• 23 October 2013 138. Being right

• 9 October 2013 137. The labyrinth of exertion

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