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Twining Vines Day Spring 2025

  • May 29, 2025
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“Twining Vines” aptly describes Zen practice. Teacher, student and Sangha braid together in mutual learning and support. Our tendrils reach for the light, and our broad leaves protect the dark and fertile soil where much transformation happens. Today Zen West warmly welcomes the Twining Vines apprentices, students who have been called to cultivate both inner and outer ecologies this season at the Horton Road Organics Farm. Seido reflects on the three hallmarks of a great calling, and the roots of the phrase “Twining Vines” in Dogen’s Katto fascicle.


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