Kuya Minogue

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: In tough times, sit down and meditate

In hard times, the depth of understanding that practice delivers is fully realized, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Practice involves walking forward and backward

With Zen practice, we can really appreciate walking forward and backward, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Taking a backward step helps to see true self

Zen master Eihei Dogen says the backward step is the heart of meditation, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: No end to appreciation of phenomenal world

"Anywhere you turn you will find something that is absolutely worth knowing," says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Learning from wisdom of our bodies

Zen practice unites consciousness with universal experience of being a body, says Creston teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Zen teaching a reminder that all beings are precious

The whole point of Zen practice is to teach us that we are not separate from anything, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Every birth a miracle that brings feeling of hope

We feel hope for the whole world at that moment of birth, says Creston zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: We are all in the same state of impermanence

We share so much simply because we all exist, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Mountain meditation helps penetrate essence of Dogen’s essay

Column by Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue offers a guided mountain meditation...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: The only thing permanent is… impermanence

Things come and go; you can trust that, always, says Creston Zen teacher and columnist Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Teaching encourages us to examine our lives thoroughly

Study lives at ever-deeper levels, see how at every moment you are at rest and in motion, says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Zen writings attempt to help us enter an enlightened mind

Because we can’t use ordinary logic to figure out koans, they break us out of habitual mind, says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: To understand Dogen’s teaching, enter a bigger mind

Dogen’s purpose here is to undo everything that I have learned that ties me up in the knots, says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: The green mountains are always walking

Our concepts are not solid — they exist in this moment, and then they are gone, says Creston Zen teacher and columnist Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Zen teaching helps us enjoy life fully

Often we make the mistake of thinking that this moment isn’t really all that important, says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Dropping the bucket list will help maintain balance

Identity and ego are a constant feature of our thinking, says Zen teacher and columnist Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Practice helps us to bear the unbearable

Soon after we start a regular meditation practice, we realize we are stuck in patterns, says Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: 13th century essay offers different way of thinking about age

Origin of the universe is more mysterious than anything we could possibly imagine, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Enlightenment isn’t a goal — it is here and now

We are enlightenment itself, because enlightenment is everything that appears, says Creston Zen teacher Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.

A Zen’s-Eye View: Everything in our lives teaches us

Everything that appears expresses the purest and highest truth, says Zen columnist Kuya Minogue...

Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Sakura-ji, Creston’s zendo.