December 2016
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Dogen
A cold plum blossom in the twelfth month is bright in the moonlight Frost is added…
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Roaming Zen
It has been either wet, cold, or both, the past few days – at least by…
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Suzuki Roshi
‘Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life…
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Tara Brach
‘All our reactions to people, to situations, to thoughts in our mind – are actually reactions…
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Reasons to be Cheerful
‘Ummon addressed the assembly and said, “I am not asking you about the days before the…
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Torei
‘It is not that you attain buddhahood yourself and then liberate beings; it is in order…
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Chan Master Sheng Yen
‘If you always insist on your own views and your own way of doing things, and…
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Mumon
The moon above the clouds is ever the same; Valleys and mountains are separate from each…
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Dogen
‘If the great ocean knew it was full, the hundreds of rivers would all flow upstream.’…
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Michael Stone
‘There are no hermetically sealed practices or cultures. Now that cultures are flowing into and out…
Shundo David Haye - Zen Priest 