O’Sullivan to teach Zen Buddhism for Mystic Heart
An accident led Michael O’Sullivan to first discover Zen Buddhism. A literal accident.
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Pulleyn to teach meditation for everyday life
A shelf mushroom growing from the side of a tree spurred John Pulleyn’s interest in Zen Buddhism. He was walking through the woods with a friend the summer before his senior year at Oberlin College when he saw the mushroom and muttered aloud that it was disgusting.
O’Sullivan to lead Mystic Heart in Korean Zen Buddism
Although Michael O’Sullivan retired from being a detective in 1989, he has never stopped looking for missing persons. His meditation seminar topics on Tuesday and Thursday will be “Are You a Missing Person?” and “How You Can Find Your True Self.”
Kubickas draw happiness, awareness from meditation
What do people need to do to become more aware and compassionate? Well, rolling out of bed and heading to the Main Gate Welcome Center for a meditation session would be a good start.
O’Sullivan to lead Mystic Heart in Zen Buddhist tradition
Michael O’Sullivan stumbled into Zen Buddhism through a sprained ankle. While he was in a New York City emergency room having his twisted joint tended to, a doctor discovered that O’Sullivan had high blood pressure. When the doctor left the room to write a prescription, the attending nurse turned to O’Sullivan and said “Don’t take the medicine, learn how to meditate.”
O’Sullivan will lead the Mystic Heart Program during Week Nine. He will lead the daily morning meditation sessions and the semiweekly afternoon seminars on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He said it will be his fourth time facilitating the Mystic Heart Program.
Zen Buddhist to lead Mystic Heart in art of doing nothing
A car crashes; a child is stuck amid the debris. Then, as if propelled by some supernatural strength the child’s parent lifts the car and rescues the trapped child.
That parent is living and acting in the moment. That strength comes from awareness, a quality of being present. That is the mindset that Zen Buddhism works to cultivate, said John Pulleyn, the head of Zendo at the Rochester Zen Center.
“People go through their days, they’re bored and depressed or things just aren’t exciting in anyway, but when you have those moments when you’re completely present, everything comes alive,” Pulleyn said.
He will lead the Mystic Heart Program in the Zen Buddhist tradition during Week Three. The Mystic Heart Program is a religious program that focuses on teaching different religious meditation practices from around the world. This year, the taught practices are Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Jewish Kabbalah, Christianity and Baha’i.
The Chautauquan Daily 