Psychology + Zen = Philosophy and methods to relieve suffering and reveal happiness.
Psychology: We project onto others what we reject in ourselves. Some call it a Shadow. Healing comes from making the unconscious conscious, taking responsibility for our projections, integrating what is split off as our own thing.
Zen: There is no separate self. When we can be at one with every aspect, then we belong everywhere and we reject no one.
We heal the world by becoming intimate with our whole selves.
A montage to honor the courage it took to face death for a year. The workshop "A Year to Live," based on Stephen Levine's book, was held at the NYC Village Zendo, guided by Roshi Enkyo O'Hara and Robert Chodo Campbell.
It's never really about time or money, said a wise but mistaken psychotherapist.
Yes, it IS about time, really. Time is change, for one thing, and change is our only true master. Now I write, but in 25 minutes it will be time to go to the podiatrist. Later it will be time to go home, time to go to sleep, time to wake up, time to work, time to cook, time to do the dishes. Time seems to move too fast, meaning that I am too slow to change. I wish I could be time, as Zen Master Dogen teaches; I would be the clock, the moving part, the changing thing. 
The problem is that I need time to truly absorb this lesson and I'm in too much of a rush to stop and….
Updated on Friday, June 8, 2012 at 5:41PM by
Elena TaJo
The joke is on me. My plan (what is it about plans?) was to open OGReHome on April Fools Day. Instead, the server had to process the change. Well, you know what the shrinks (and artists and philosophers and wise women and men) say about process.