Author Barry Ku San This paper is not intended to be definitive in its treatment of the concept of Dependent Arising. Much of what you will find here comes from my own experiences during meditation and I have written this paper to help people new to…

Barry Farrin [email protected] Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism Introduction This talk draws on my personal experience as a Zen Buddhist student and teacher and my work as a psychotherapist working mainly in palliative care, cancer care, grief and loss, anxiety, stress and depression.  I have practiced meditation since the mid seventies and began training in psychotherapy…

This is the revised and edited Teisho that was given on the last day of a five-day sesshin on the 6th May 2018. It was compiled very early in the morning, while meditating alone in the Zendo, before any students arrived. I can’t remember the…