"Somehow the expression 'stoep Zen' popped out," Olser said in an interview ... through his own experience and life on and around Poplar Grove, his farm home near Colesberg in the Free State.

Poplar Grove is a simple Karoo sheep farm just south ... a Buddhist teacher and writer of two beautiful books: Stoep Zen and Zen Dust, which you'll also find in the cottage. We were there between ...

From his stoep on the farm Poplar Grove he offers his readers the wisdom ... imparting a fragment of Zen thinking, describing methods of meditation, or simply observing the flight of a bird ...

At Poplar Grove in Colesberg, Antony and Margie Osler welcome guests to experience stoep zen and meditation in the stillness of the Karoo. It was so hot, that summer of 2012, and at every place we ...