The World Goes into Retreat

Monk Enō
3 min readMar 23, 2020
Zen River Temple

The world has forced many into Social Distancing or even Isolation. In Zen practice we do this regularly by choice. I have learned the benefits of following a schedule from years of Zen, but it applies similarly to monastic practice from many traditions.

I do not run my daily life this structured, however there is a time and place for it and that time is now. You may have an initial reaction to some of this, but…

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Monk Enō

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