Yesterday I dropped by my clown guru Wavy Gravy’s house for a visit. Our conversation at one point opened up the topic of mindfulness and it’s current top position in the moving and grooving place...
During a photo session at a Clown-Zen workshop this spring, Heinz-Jürgen Metzger in Zen robes, myself in Mr Miniscule outfit, a comment offered up by Jawoo 10 days earlier floated to the surface....
all photos by Jonathan Levy. Flowers and Water are the creative themes. 5 hours Saturday and 3 on Sunday in which to introduce 12 participants into the notion of being funny, exploring their funny...
I’ve been reading Michael Wenger’s recently published book : 49 Fingers, a collection of modern American Koans. It’s a wonderful book that includes Michael’s sumi paintings and the Koans, complete...
Ohno sensei has passed away (2010). He was one of the great dancers, an adventurer of deep beauty butoh dance landscape. He marveled audiences worldwide.In class, sometimes he showed us images of a...
I know the sound of two hand clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Mr. YooWho decided yesterday to do his best to answer one of the more famous of Zen koans....
Please enjoy a description of what BhodiSong (a.k.a. LooneyTune) created as a Humor-full performance ritual to follow the Zen Center of Los Angeles’ celebration service of Buddha’s Birthday…....
My upstairs neighbor, Marc Jondall, former performer with the Pickle Family Circus, gave me these comments as we quipped about clown and zen. We were in the midst of cleaning off construction dust...
Roshi Bernie Glassman (zen master) is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers and guiding spirits of socially engaged Buddhism. He has based his life’s work on a commitment to service,...
This conversation with Roshi Egyoku took place during my six weeks (Jan-Feb 2007) as an artist in residence at the Zen center of Los Angeles. A few times a week, we would sit down for a half hour...