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As I wrap up season three, I‘d like to invite you to listen, either again or for the first time, to my conversation with Karen Maezen Miller. We first spoke back in the middle of March when Covid-19 cases were climbing and the world was going into lockdown. These days, cases in the US are higher than ever but lockdowns are far in the rearview mirror. These are STILL turbulent times. I’m sharing this episode with you again because it’s worth listening to again, maybe even multiple times. Maezen has so many wise insights to share and I know you will find solace in them. Guest Bio Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest she teaches about spirituality in everyday life at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books: Momma Zen, Hand Wash Cold and Paradise in Plain Sight. Mentioned in this Episode Momma Zen https://www.amazon.com/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood/dp/1590304616 Hand Wash Cold https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Wash-Cold-Instructions-Ordinary/dp/1577319044 Paradise in Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Plain-Sight-Lessons-Garden/dp/1608682528 http://karenmaezenmiller.com/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

Guest Bio  Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest she teaches about spirituality in everyday life at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books: Momma Zen, Hand Wash Cold and Paradise in Plain Sight.     Description  The world is a very unsettled and uncertain place at the moment. And while we all look to someone or someplace for answers, perhaps we have an opportunity to look no further than the very next moment for refuge. This week we welcome Karen Maezen Miller, a Zen Buddhist priest, for her guidance on feeling more grounded and calm in these turbulent times.         Mentioned in this Episode    Momma Zen https://www.amazon.com/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood/dp/1590304616      Hand Wash Cold https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Wash-Cold-Instructions-Ordinary/dp/1577319044      Paradise in Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Plain-Sight-Lessons-Garden/dp/1608682528      http://karenmaezenmiller.com/      Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: @kristenmanieri_ 

Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. Her books include: Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden,  Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life , and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood.

About Karen Maezen Miller Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She leads retreats around the country and is mother to daughter Georgia and as a writer, she aims to resolve the enigmatic truth of Maezumi's teaching.     Episode highlights Karen discusses how your life is your spiritual practice The background to writing to Momma Zen The curious expression of 'expecting' when we are pregnant - expecting what? How you don't need any formal spiritual training to experience motherhood as a spiritual journey.  How we are all one and seeing this in our interactions with our children. Knowing who we are in the journey of motherhood The beauty of allowing our kids to be themselves How children allow us to forgive   Relevant links Karen Maezen Miller’s book Momma Zen (http://karenmaezenmiller.com/bookstore/)   Website and Blog (http://karenmaezenmiller.com/)     How to subscribe and review   If you liked this episode of the Mothering the Mother Podcast, tell your friends, please! And please go to iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mothering-the-mother-podcast/id1446253273) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-598342093) to rate/review/subscribe to the show. it really helps to get the Podcast out there and before more people and it also makes my heart sing when I read reviews - I do read every single review and am so grateful - thank you.         #motheringthemother   Please do share the Podcast on social media if you enjoyed the episode – I am so grateful for sharing with your community and followers. You can you use the hashtag #motheringthemother which makes it easier for me to find you.     Yoga Nidra Retreat in London on 14 March 2020   Join Alison for her first Whole Mama Yoga Nidra Retreat in London   You can read more about the retreat here (https://www.alisonbarker.com/whole-mama-day-retreat-1)   Early Bird Tickets are only on sale for only one days @ £95   Standard Tickets on sale afterwards will be £120   As a little thank you for taking the time to leave a review, I am offering a free coaching call to one lucky reviewer each month.      GET YOUR FREE REST GUIDE   This guide has received some wonderful feedback:   "I just downloaded your 'Rest Guide'. It absolutely spoke to my soul, I feel like you wrote it just for me and i can't thank you enough for sharing it. I can't wait to step in and change my crazy life"   https://alisonbarker.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=db261f1657&u=b745f828c26496c32eaef3a9b       Mothering the Mother Facebook group and Instagram   Join my community on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alison_barker_/), join over 200 other mamas on the Facebook group the Mothering the Mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1885649551488600/)     Disclaimer   The information and reference guides in this podcast are intended solely for the general information for the reader/listener. The contents of this podcast are not intended to offer personal medical advice, diagnose health problems or for treatment purposes. It is not a substitute for medical care provided by a licensed and qualified health professional. Please consult your health care provider for any advice on medications.   The materials contained on this podcast are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. Alison Barker does not accept any responsibility for any loss, which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.    

In today's show, I'm bringing back one of my favorite interviews I did for the Mindful Mama Movement podcast.  Karen Maezen Miller is a wife, mother, author and Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. Maezen has written three books and several anthologies about spirituality in everyday life. She leads retreats around the country and we feel blessed that she's with us today to share her valuable insights on motherhood and life from a Zen Buddhist perspective. Maezen became a mother at 42 years old and prefers to call the transition into motherhood more of a cotastrophe and she explains why in this episode. Maezen shares how important it is to be very clear about your life, and what is actually happening, at each moment in time. Without doing so, she feels you can never truly be open to the answers life provides, understand the energy you project onto those around you, or be able to handle situations that don't go your way without becoming depressed. Maezen uses this philosophy when parenting her own child, and admits that it's easier said than done, in order to not make herself the center of her daughter's life. Maezen also uses her expertise to offer tips for those looking to start meditating. Maezen's ability to step into herself and take full responsibility for her thoughts and feelings are an inspiration. I adore Maezen and know you will as well. Some quotes from the show: "Your life brings to you exactly what you don't want, because you need it. You need to be able to learn and grow... As many parents realize, our children are their teachers."   "Understand that your power lies in that moment of response and reaction. That's where your power and responsibility lies."   "We hear so much talk about living in the moment, so I'm going to bring it back to this... We really have to be so clear where that moment is. It's always right where you are. Although in our mind we think so much is happening at once, but actually not that much is happening at once.   If we slow down our thinking we will see more clearly that there is a flow to things. And the things we might be hyperventilating about right now, we can probably give them more time and more information will appear. Especially these decisions that have to do with our children's lives. I think we are so smart and have so much information but we have all made, and certainly I have, a critical error in placing ourselves at the center of our children's lives, instead of our children at the center of their lives. Thanks so much for listening. Warmly, Shannon   www.afreespiritlife.com

For this episode I'm going to step out of the usual mode and talk to someone who stumbled onto gardening by a twist of fate, and who uses her garden's many lessons to teach us the living wisdom in our natural world. KAREN MAEZEN MILLER is a Zen priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, and the author of Mama Zen, Hand Wash Cold, and a slender book called Paradise In Plain Sight which is the focus of our talk. Through Maezen's no-nonsense prose, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. And the green space that provides her so many lessons is no ordinary patch of land, but a 100-year-old Japanese garden that she painstakingly restored with no prior gardening experience. This "one foot in front of the other" approach is often referred to as The Path in Buddhism, and I begin our conversation by asking Maezen about her own path from starting a business to shedding the trappings of success, and eventually earning the robes of a Zen priest. Learn more about Maezen's writing and find her teaching and retreat schedule here: http://karenmaezenmiller.com

Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She’s also the author of Momma Zen and Hand Wash Cold.  TOPICS: How to bring meditation and mindfulness to your pregnancy and birth + Staying present in your life + How to work with your fears and trust the process + How to guide and love your children in every moment

About the book: Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom. Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of our lives. This compelling and wise memoir follows the timeline of early motherhood from pregnancy through toddlerhood. Momma Zen takes readers on a transformative journey, charting a mother’s growth beyond naive expectations and disorientation to finding fulfillment in ordinary tasks, developing greater self-awareness and acceptance—to the gradual discovery of “maternal bliss,” a state of abiding happiness and ease that is available to us all. In her gentle and reassuring voice, Karen Miller convinces us that ancient and authentic spiritual lessons can be as familiar as a lullaby, as ordinary as pureed peas, and as frequent as a sleepless night. She offers encouragement for the hard days, consolation for the long haul, and the lightheartedness every new mom needs to face the crooked path of motherhood straight on. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.

About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.

My special guest for the last show of the year is the author who influenced me the most in 2014, Karen Maezen Miller author of Paradise in Plain Sight, Hand Wash Cold, and Momma Zen About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.

It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink, and the peace possible in one’s own backyard. Follow Karen Maezen Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, beyond a broken marriage, and into the steady calm of a so-called ordinary life. In her hands, household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship, and liberating moments of selflessness. With attention, it’s the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant, and unwanted things — that count. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.   www.karenmaezenmiller.com

About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now.   About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.

Join the Positively Incorrect! Newsletter HERE   Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE  Karen Miller, Zen Buddist priest and teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, shares with Scott Cluthe about her new book, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons From a Zen Garden.  From New World Library PARADISE IN PLAIN SIGHT :Lessons from a Zen Garden-When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now.

Karen Maezen Miller is a wife, mother, and writer. She's also a Zen priest and teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. One afternoon in the summer of 1997 she and her new husband found themselves in the neglected backyard of a rundown house in a quiet suburb of Los Angeles. They were standing in a 100-year-old Japanese garden, the oldest privately owned Japanese garden in California. They heard “the call to the garden,” turned to the realtor and said, “We'll take it!” And then the garden began to teach. Karen's exquisite new book, Paradise in Plain Sight, is the result.

Karen Maezen Miller is the author of Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She is an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, and expert laundress, as well as a Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. It's easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are "out there," somewhere outside of our daily routine. But, in Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Karen Maezen Miller reveals the ancient wisdom that we too easily overlook — the care instructions that come tucked inside our ordinary lives. Like the laundry tag sewn inside a precious garment, she'll encourage us to pay attention to ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.

Karen Maezen Miller is the author of Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She is an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, and expert laundress, as well as a Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. It's easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are "out there," somewhere outside of our daily routine. But, in Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Karen Maezen Miller reveals the ancient wisdom that we too easily overlook — the care instructions that come tucked inside our ordinary lives. Like the laundry tag sewn inside a precious garment, she'll encourage us to pay attention to ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.