Exploring Zen and Poetry

Sun March 15, 2026, 1 – 3 PM, Oxbow Zendo, First Churches, 24 Center Street, Northampton
Entrance behind the small garden.

You are warmly invited to participate in a poetry workshop on “Body – Breath – Mind.” In a meditative environment, we’ll be exploring Zen and Poetry together.

All are welcome!! No prior experience with Zen or Poetry is needed. Just bring your open mind!

Please sign-up for the workshop here: LINK
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Screen with three panels, showing mountains in the mist, with a small flock of birds passing into the distance. — Mountains in the mist

Hearing sound, Awaken to the Way
Seeing form, Understand the Mind

Yunmen (864 – 949 CE), Book of Equanimity

Everything changes
everything is connected
pay attention

Jane Hirshfield, Zen Practice in Seven Words