We don’t just live on Planet Earth anymore, we live as well in a digitalized-mind-space. From May 25, 2025 you will find our Online Zen Program on the Dharma Academy website.
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Buddhist monasteries are a communal (cenobitic) form of monasticism, about 2500 years old, and thus probably the oldest, on-going, communal institutions in the world. The settled sites were called ‘arama’, meaning‘pleasant park’. Our own specific tradition of East Asian Zen monasticism is about 1600 years old and a continuation of the basic tradition.
"We don’t just live on Planet Earth anymore, we live as well (as well as we can) in a digitalized-mind-space, digitalized by our digits/by our fingers, on a keyboard, and by our eyes on a screen, and by our free-wheeling minds, and by numbers too, digits in a computer.
In most of ‘befores’, and in my day too, the world was counted on fingers, our days were numbered, and our spaces were located.
But now we have landed, no, we are landing, boarding, a digitalized-mind-space, which is anywhere and everywhere. This is a new kind of location, a new-planet, a new kind of planet-mind, a globalized-mind, a new-residence, a new-habitat on this planet earth, where not only is space extended (all directions become directions); and all time is here too."
