Long Island Zen Center

In Zen Buddhism practice is essential. What you learn in Buddhism must be your own experience. It cannot be learned by reading or thinking. You must get beyond your personal self. What self then appears? You must find out. Who is then the one who finds out? Only by dissolving the self can a new self come into being who finds this out.

" It is a transmission mind to mind without the use of words or letters."
These minds are not different.

Genshin

Genshin Edgar Kann is a Buddhist monk ordained by Zen master Joshu Sasaki. Genshin has been practicing Buddhism under Joshu Roshi since 1972. He and his wife Rita have been holding Zen sittings and retreats open to the public in their home since 1975. He retired from teaching mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York in 1990.