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Zazen & everyday awareness
Zen
Direct meditative practice, zazen and everyday awareness in traditions rooted in Chinese Chan and its later forms.
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Julie Seido Nelson
Julie Seido Nelson is a sensei, a transmitted teacher in the Zen lineage of Maezumi Roshi. She is also an economist and writer, and her blog moves between Zen and the subjects she has worked on for years — economics, ethics, gender, climate and language.
Her book *Practicing Safe Zen: Navigating the Pitfalls on the Road to Liberation*, published in 2025, is written from firsthand experience of a Zen community in greater Boston that went through more than one abuse scandal. She sets the dangers she names against core Zen teaching at every step, and is careful to keep both halves in view: the liberation Zen offers is real, and the practice has to be entered carefully.
“Zen teachers are simply human beings who have probably been on the path longer than you, and who try to help you avoid traps and point you in helpful directions.”Julie Seido Nelson
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