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Clip art zen time1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() People stick to it because it works for them. It's not an easy practice, and it's not that obvious. ![]() It's this inner gain that you can actually feel yourself to help you to get on. And it's something, after you sit, there's something you can sense between yourself that has grown a bit and is a bit stronger. It gives them a depth to the meaning of life. There's something about inner garbage that just melts after you've been meditating. How have you seen people change after they began practicing meditation with you? They're not quite as head-bound as we Westerners are. They're wonderful people for meditation, you know. So I went to the Canadian ambassador, and he spoke for me, so I got in that way. I went to the Canadian ambassador because I knew the Filipinos would never let me go into the prisons a foreigner and work with prisoners. I thought, "Gee, that's a wonderful idea." This was a very, very bright lad, and he asked me to go in and teach in prison. It was in the worst of Marcos' years, when I was in the Philippines. I wish I could take credit for that, but it was a prisoner who came to me. Tell us about your work teaching meditation in prisons. And, of course, being a musician - there's a real sensitivity between those two fields. I think one's intuition has got to be very, very sensitive for work in meditation. You're born with some talents, and people find those and help you develop, and then all of a sudden, you're equipped. We can differentiate a lot of sounds that other people are not aware of. We are born with a receivership that's very sensitive. I think you have to be somebody that is comfortable in silence, and I just happen to be that type of person. I liked the cushion meditation very much that I was doing in my community. Why did you get into Zen practice and Zen teaching? Elaine MacInnes in April 2016 (Provided photo) But I continue writing, of course, and I'm in touch with all my teachers and everything, so I don't feel out of the swim at all. MacInnes: I'm on the verge of my 93rd birthday, so my ministry is pretty passive now. She meets with visitors to her home, and she joins two or three different Zen groups in Toronto a few times a week. Now retired in the Our Lady's Missionaries convent in Toronto, MacInnes is writing a memoir of her life. She spent years in England and taught meditation in the Philippines during its revolution in the 1980s. Her first mission was to Japan, where she learned Zen and returned over some years to study with her masters. Knowing that she would be stationed anywhere in the world as a missionary appealed to her, as she was eager to explore the globe. She chose Our Lady's Missionaries when it was a new community in Canada, the first congregation in English-speaking Canada. MacInnes remembers her time at Julliard fondly, having developed as a violinist but also as a person, thanks to one teacher in particular, with whom she stayed in touch for many years. She calls herself a Maritimer.Īn avid violinist, MacInnes attended Julliard in New York for two years, honing her skills, before moving to Calgary to join the Calgary Symphony Orchestra, teaching at the Mount Royal Conservatory of Music in Calgary, and joining the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for some performances for about five years. MacInnes entered Our Lady's Missionaries in 1961, after she had graduated from Mount Allison University near Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, where she grew up. She learned the art from Zen masters in Japan and became a master herself, later working with convicts in prison in the Philippines. CLIP ART ZEN TIME HOW TOElaine MacInnes travels the globe, practicing Zen meditation and using her intuition to teach others how to better center themselves. Elaine MacInnes, Yamada Koun Roshi and Jun Maron at a Zendo in Manila, Philippines, in the 1980s (Provided photo) ![]()
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