Comments Feed Maia Duerr » How 12 Years of Zen Practice Changed My Life Comments Feed alternate alternate alternate Home » Spirit » How 12 Years of Zen Practice Changed My Life » How 12 Years of Zen Practice Changed My Life How 12 Years of Zen Practice Changed My Life in Spirit | 11 comments Priest Ordination at Upaya Zen Center (photo: Mitsue Nagase) Priest Ordination at Upaya Zen Center (photo: Mitsue Nagase) the end of a 40-minute period of zaZen (sitting meditation). Every day, liberation My Zen practice is especially present for me right now. For watched and supported as three cohorts of students in Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Program made their way through all this, three friends received ordination as novice Zen priests. path and realized that this is my twelfth year of Zen practice. spring of 2001, I moved to San Francisco Zen Center for eight months, marking the start of my ve had the good karma to live next door to Zen centers in San Francisco and here in Santa Fe for From the outside, Zen might look like a heady, isolated sort of practice I don’t think you have to be a Zen practitioner to do this – there are many pathways Maia and others. I began moving down the Zen path back in the ’ It’s been 12 years of Zen for me too but it feels like I’m A cultural anthropologist, writer, and Zen practitioner on a mission to cultivate compassion, awareness,