Lost Coin Zen

On March 13th & 14th 2010, Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei will be leading a retreat, The Traveler’s Intentions. Participants will experience the freedom and joy that comes from approaching life as a traveler.  This retreat is being held in Park City, Utah, and is open to the public as well as Lost Coin students. Doen Sensei encourages non-members to attend.   Doen Sensei will be interacting directly and often with the participants and will provide plenty of opportunity through meditation, group processes and talks, to really look closely at beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, and habits which create barriers for us.

To register for the retreat, please click here. The cost of the retreat is $130 and includes lunch on Saturday. Please bring your own sitting cushions and whatever you will need to be comfortable. Saturday, we’ll begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, we’ll begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 1:30 p.m

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Lost Coin at contact@lostcoinzen.com or call 800-731-5061.

When Doen Sensei’s Wonderland:  The Zen of Alice was first published in October, it received an enthusiastic welcome–many readers who came to book signings were turned away because booksellers had not anticipated how heavy the demand would be (one store sold more than 50 copies in less than an hour).  Just four months later, the book is drawing more and more new readers.  Wonderland currently ranks number 15 in Amazon’s “Zen Philosophy” category and number 26 in the vast, general “Zen” category.

Wonderland‘s success has been so impressive that Random House will be publishing a German version in the near future.  We’ll keep you updated on other new versions as they’re announced.  Congratulations, Sensei, and bring on your next book!

One thing I hope you all do is devote yourself to this practice with love, with a wild abandon and passion.  You need that love to really be able to fly.  Love for the practice, love for each other, love for yourself, love for your teacher.

As Maezumi Roshi always said, “appreciate your life!”  And I hope you appreciate it with a burning, fiery love.  Really let go into your life and really appreciate it.  Cultivate a certain potency, a loving warriorship, and choose a path with heart.

Fling yourself into the practice, into your life.  This is physical and it’s emotional.  Let go of your inner critic.  Be like the Sufis described a Man of God:  he’s like a moth.  He knows the flame will destroy him, will burn his ego to ashes, but he goes straight for it–because he has no choice.

You’re just passing through.  If you abandon yourself to the practice, to appreciating your life with real gusto, you’ll never look back and regret it.