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Contemporary Zen Teacher
About Jemma Holland
Jemma Holland began teaching Zen not in a temple, but in the silence between Slack notifications, after spending three years as a UX researcher observing how attention fractures across devices. She developed the 'Pause-Buffer Protocol', a 90-second micro-practice that reframes digital interruption as an invitation to embodied awareness, now taught in tech ethics labs and public libraries from Lisbon to Jakarta. Her book *The Glitch Is the Gate* argues that algorithmic distraction isn’t a problem to fix, but a koan to sit with, revealing how our nervous systems adapt before our philosophies do. She doesn’t ask people to unplug; she trains them to notice the weight of their thumb hovering over the 'send' button, or the breath held during a loading spinner. Her retreats include guided silences punctuated by intentional device use, checking weather apps mindfully, composing emails with full somatic presence. This isn’t Zen adapted for screens; it’s Zen emerging *from* the screen’s glare, grounded in neurophenomenology and decades of Soto lineage training.
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