in calmness there should be activity, in activity there should be calmness
Susuki Roshi
UK Teacher - Josh Gifford
Josh received Lay Teacher Entrustment from Flint in October 2020.
His practice is orientated towards how, as lay practitioners, we can feel into the depths of our precious lives, moment to moment. How we can open to the flow of calmness and activity in what we may perceive as our busy lives. The coming home to Just This.
Josh started Nothing Missing, with Trudy Johnston, in the spring of 2012 after returning from the Swiss Nothing Missing Retreat and, with her, nurtured the development of the wider Just This zen community.
In the late seventies, drawn to teachings stemming from The Bhagavad Gita, Josh ran a meditation centre in Sussex, with others, while starting a career as a teacher of Drama which developed, over many years, into working in a range of contexts and settings with young people and parents.
Since 2006 his practice has been informed and inspired by the practice of Hakomi, the training setting in which he first met Flint.
Josh’s late entrustments as a teacher, grandparent and great grandparent have offered him the opportunity to deepen into elder’s heart-mind in his life and practice and to open to the question of what it would be to be a good ancestor.