February 22, 2012

Divine Your Life

A Training in Cultivating Deep Awareness and Opening to Other Realms of Existence

With Dr. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author, visual artist, diviner, drummer and Zen Priest

Training Description

How do we access and walk with what we know in our bones? Each week we will learn to settle our hearts and minds with the purpose of unburying our innate wisdom for the benefit of your life and therefore all of humanity.

We will enhance our awareness by finding the breath, developing heart knowing, and listening to the dialogue of body sensations. Such awareness enables some of us to enter unexplored realms of existence beyond our physical world.  In other words we are learning how to use divination within our own lives.  We will learn how to turn down the volume of confusion and turn up the volume of our true voice.

Thirteen Mondays at 7 pm in Oakland California (tea will be served):

March 5, 12, 19, 26.

April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

May 7, 21, 28

June 4

Suggested Donation:  $20 per session

Limited to 12 participants per session

Address will be shared at time of registration.

Registration

It is best to register for the entire series however you may register for parts.  Please send an email to zenju.earthlyn.manuel@gmail.com with your full name and phone number and the dates for which you are registering.  A confirmation letter will be sent to you with further instructions.

Personal divination or readings with my divining cards the Black Angels are available.

(photo by Simbwala Schultz)

February 22, 2012

Embracing My Whole Life

Often I am asked how do I integrate my work as a Zen Priest and my work as a diviner and holder of the Black Angel Cards.  I recognize it as a question that comes from the tendency to view things as separate.  It also comes from a curiosity of how one can embrace their whole life—every aspect. read more »

June 14, 2011

Be Love

I touch the earth. I honor my ancestors with my sitting meditation practice. And to them I say, “Let each breath be a gift of my love.”  –Zenju


BE Love

May the heavy become light,
May what’s ill become well,
May what’s violent become peace,
May rage be settled,
May the idea of enemy be banished,
May actions be filled with sincere purpose,
May wellness be illuminated,
May gifts be recognized,
May all that we know to BE LOVE,
pour out and overflow
wherever it is needed.
—Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

September 7, 2011

When the Roar of My Life Seemed Too Loud

(Gengetsu Jana Drakka and Zenju during ordination Sept. 2008)

I hope you are well today. As I continue to follow the path, I encounter many people who have never been introduced to the teachings of Buddha and who become curious about Buddhist practice. There is even more curiosity when they see that my skin is black and that I clearly have African ancestry. Many have asked, “How did you come to an ancient Asian practice, such as Buddhism, as an African American person?” read more »

October 28, 2011

Dream

No one or nothing can take away my dreams,
There is no amount of money that can purchase them for me,
No amount of education that can create them,
No enemy that can walk up and rob me of them,
There is no legislation that can guarantee them for me.
No one or nothing can take away my dreams,
I need only be clear of what my dreams are,
Release the fear that holds me back from myself,
that keeps me from giving.
And then understand that the dream requires that I wake up
And do it.

February 16, 2012

For All Beings

By Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

 

May all beings be cared for and loved,

Be listened to, understood and acknowledged despite different views,

Be accepted for who they are in this moment,

Be afforded patience,

Be allowed to live without fear of having their lives taken away or their bodies violated. read more »

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