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Welcome to Middle Way Education’s Resources page. Here you’ll find a selection of resources created by MWE and other contributors from around the world. Do you have something to share? Wish to become a contributor? We welcome submissions and encourage you to contact us.

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Sit with Me Song

February 26, 2024
Gillian Eames, the preschool teacher at the Middle Way School in New York, put music to Carolyn Kanjuro's book Sit With Me. The song teaches the seven points of meditation posture.

Shugen Roshi on Equanimity, Emotions, and Walking Meditation!

January 25, 2024
This video recording (1hr) is of Shugen Roshi's talk at the Middle Way School in January 2024. Shugen sat with students and parents to talk about impermanence, one of Middle Way Education’s core units of inquiry. He focussed on the importance of cultivating equanimity in the context of recognizing the impermanent, always-changing quality of all things. He also fielded questions from parents and students, who wanted to know things like “how did the Buddha have fun?”

Lunch Rituals

January 9, 2024
This lunch ritual is loosely based on ōryōki, a Zen monastic eating meditation that places an emphasis on service, generosity, and appreciation. It was developed by Noa Jones and Catherine Fordham for the Middle Way School of the Hudson Valley. Shared mealtime is an opportunity to foster a healthy relationship to food, enjoy each other’s company, and create a harmonious environment at the table. Creating a consistent mealtime practice can help children feel more focussed and be more present with their food.

Shugen Roshi on Shila

May 21, 2023
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery spoke to a group of Middle Way School parents on the subject of shila, or Buddhist discipline on April 13, 2023.