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Karen Maezen Miller

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Santa Monica, CA
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Taizan Maezumi Roshi, my daughter Georgia and my mother

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About this author

I call myself an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, expert laundress and stationmaster of the full catastrophe. I'm also a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. Don't let that last part disturb you too much. I'm not the kind of priest you have pictured in your mind. I'm the kind of priest that looks a lot like you do, doing the same kinds of things you do, every day.

If every Tuesday afternoon you wheeled your garbage cans out to the curb and saw your next-door neighbor doing that same thing, your neighbor would be me.

Visit me at my blog, Cheerio Road, http://www.karenmaezenmiller.com for the daily inspiration and encouragement to keep going.


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A taste of what I wrote this morning for my next book Paradise in Plain Sight, coming in the spring from New World Library.


I forgot the way I had come. —Kanzan


The buds appear in early winter and bloom through early spring. Theirs is the perfume of youth, the scent of morning. They number in the thousands, perfect star-shaped flowers caressed by eager breezes until nearly all of them loosen and...

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“You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ...”
Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.”
Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

“Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.”
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