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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:

• 25 September 2013 136. Lost words

• 11 September 2013 135. Clear seeing

• 28 August 2013 134. The weirs of age

• 14 August 2013 133. Open and shut

• 26 June 2013 132. This precious human birth

• 12 June 2013 131. True realism

• 29 May 2013 130. Awful but cheerful

• 15 May 2013 129. Wild surmise

• 1 May 2013 128. The straightforward mind

• 17 April 2013 127. No coming, no going

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