Bad journalism? Just tell the truth…
If there is one criticism of my work here that I find more ironic than any other, it is that I am a bad journalist. I started this piece by writing “criticism of Sweeping Zen” but quickly realized they...
View ArticleEditorial Responsibility & Censorship
There have been times where something that has been published on Sweeping Zen has offended another person. Since starting this website I have allowed Zen teachers from all traditions to write freely...
View ArticleFrom Enthusiasm to Burnout and Back
I want to apologize to the Zen community for not updating the website in a while. I do plan to continue publishing here and am getting back to it, though I wanted to take a brief moment to explain the...
View ArticleMy 30-day retreat, jukai, and travels through California
This past Sunday I returned from my month-long trip to California, the majority of my time being spent at Empty Nest Zendo’s Shogaku Zen Institute 30 day intensive. The retreat was designed primarily...
View ArticleZen undefined
It’s interesting that in the years of running this site, there’s never been an explicit article defining what Zen actually is. Who would want that task? I was rereading Koun Franz’s interview we posted...
View ArticleGrieving what isn’t even gone
In my heart there is still that little boy in me, wanting to always feel the protection of his father; I just want my mother to tuck me in for bed and maybe read me a story so I can sleep. Mom and dad...
View ArticleTake care
It’s been a while! My last personal post was from November and it dealt with my battle with depression. Things were feeling pretty bleak. My how things can change with a paradigm shift and a change in...
View ArticleMy Journey to Santa Fe
First, a thank you to everyone who made my trip to Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico possible, including Roshi Joan Halifax and all those who gave. I’m back home now and feel the trip helped me quite a...
View ArticleFinding my teacher
I’m a baby in the dharma. I think we’re all kind of that way, really. I took the Buddhist precepts with Myoan Grace Schireson, author of Zen Women, in 2013 when participating in her annual SPOT program...
View ArticleWhat’s with all this ritual?
When I was first getting acquainted with Zen, testing it for anything persnickety, ritual and ceremony seemed very suspect. This didn’t seem like something those iconoclasts would have wasted their...
View ArticleMy relationship to Zen practice
I can ramble and my thoughts are jumbled often. I hope I was clear. The post My relationship to Zen practice appeared first on Sweeping Zen.
View ArticleWorking with an ethically challenged Buddhist teacher or spiritual guide
This video explores the idea that an abusive teacher has something to teach us in a Dharma context. Is this a valid argument? The post Working with an ethically challenged Buddhist teacher or spiritual...
View ArticleThe mystery of dharma (gratitude)
The Dharma works in very mysterious ways. Somehow I read some books in my early twenties that brought me here. Drug me here, really. As much as Sweeping Zen has at times drained me in the past, it’s...
View ArticleA physical practice
Hey all. It’s been a long while, hasn’t it? Life has taken many twists and turns for me. I started work at a local grocery store here in Cincinnati and am enjoying the physical labor. I still haven’t...
View ArticleA reason to return to publishing at Sweeping Zen by Adam Ko Shin Tebbe
Greetings dear readers! After Election Day 2016 I’ve decided to return to activity here at the website. It’s going to be my hobby again, which is what I think it should have remained all along. I work...
View ArticleSee the good in all sentient beings
We’re one big family, after all. Sometimes with our world blinders on we’ve kind of forgotten that it’s actually true. Rather than being some isolated being cut off from the tribe we are wholly a part...
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