Our curriculum strips Zen down to what's useful: test every teaching against your own experience, and never trade your freedom for safety. Read it here, or download to share — no account, no cost.
Applied Zen means meditation you can use on the street, in school, in a tense moment — not philosophy for its own sake. The materials below are the backbone of how we teach.
Each will live here as a readable page with a downloadable version.
The core text — test teachings against experience; keep your freedom.
Foundations, in plain language, for newcomers to the practice.
Context and comparison — where this fits, and where it doesn't.
What to do, what to say, your rights and responsibilities with police.
"Dealing with Each Other" — behavior-change requests for real conflict.
Energy management, orange meditation, respect, working with repetitive thought.
How to sit, how to breathe, how to begin — and keep going.
"Dealing with Each Other" — applied behavior-change practice for real situations.
"You've Been Stopped!" — your rights and responsibilities during a police encounter.
Structure, practice, and community for people coming home.
Energy management, working with repetitive thought, and steadiness under stress.
A reading list for going deeper into Zen, martial arts, and the mind.
Titles drawn from the current site's PDFs & Library. Source PDF files needed from the Wix export to publish downloads (do not recreate).
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