ZEN CAMPFIRE.COM
Pull up a chair.
Zen Campfire is a place to explore practical Zen for the life you’re actually living.
Bring your questions, your struggles, your curiosity, or simply yourself. You don’t need to know anything about Zen to sit around the fire.
There’s a seat here for you.
Hello, I’m Fa Jian.
I’ve studied and practiced Zen for many years, and I was ordained a Zen Buddhist priest in 2006.
What interests me most is what happens when Zen leaves the books and meditation cushion and meets ordinary life. Love and loss. Fear and uncertainty. Anger, joy, relationships, work, aging, and all the other wonderfully messy parts of being human.
I don’t have all the answers. Sometimes the most truthful answer I can give you will be, “I don’t know.”
But I have learned a few things along the way, and I’d be glad to share them with you.
Perhaps you came here looking for Zen.
Perhaps you came looking for an answer.
Or perhaps something in your life simply isn’t sitting quite right.
Wherever you’re starting from, this is a good place to begin.
I’d like to give you something:
I watched someone I love face tremendous pain that could not simply be wished away. I found myself returning again and again to one of Zen’s simplest teachings: the first arrow and the second arrow.
The Arrowless Path grew from that experience. It is about the suffering we sometimes add to the pain life has already given us.
The Arrowless Path
A Zen Guide to Living Without the Second Arrow
I’d like to give you the digital edition as my gift.
Where should I send your book?
Zen Campfire began with a simple idea.
What if there were a place where you could bring the questions that actually matter to you and receive thoughtful, personal guidance without pretending there is one answer for everyone?
A place where Zen isn’t something we merely read about, but something we use when life gets difficult, confusing, painful, funny, or wonderfully ordinary.
That’s the Campfire.
Come as you are. Bring your questions.
We’ll see what we discover together.
Life delivers pain, disappointment, loss, anger, uncertainty, and change.
The first arrow lands. It hurts.
But we can learn to stop shooting the second arrow into ourselves.
The Arrowless Path is an introduction to that simple Zen teaching and how it can change the way we meet the difficult parts of ordinary life.
The Arrowless Path
A Zen Guide to Living Without the Second Arrow
I’d like to give you the digital edition as my gift.
Where should I send your book?