Poole Zen Group

16/02/2026

04/02/2026

Considered trying meditation? Already meditate and want some people to practice with? Come to Poole Zen Group. Start by joining the group linked below, and let me know if you want to come in the comments!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1514898996352458/

13/11/2025

Zen summed up!

09/11/2025

In exactly one week, we shall meet for our first session! If you have both a zafu and a zabuton of your own, you are absolutely welcome to come. If not, you must warn me in the comments below, as we have spares for just one person only. If you show up with neither without forewarning, you may be turned away.

Canford Heath Community Centre
Sunday 16th November
At 14:30 - 17:00

24/10/2025

As our dharma friend Daniel says, kensho (seeing your true nature) is a bit like the moment when you go from seeing two black faces to one white vase in this picture. What changes? Nothing. But actually everything changes, because your perspective shifts.

You go from seeing yourself as a separate, isolated individual with a defined edge, to seeing yourself more like a wave on the ocean - with an identity that’s part of the whole. There’s no more of you or less of you, but somehow everything is different. You no longer have to participate in the individual fight for survival - because it’s not “little old me” any more.

If you can let go of something as small as the self, you can gain something as large as the universe.