December 2019

Decades

I haven’t really wrapped my head around the fact that the decade is turning over this…
Reb Anderson

‘The paramitas invite us to train in innumerable ways in order to become thoroughly and completely…
Martin Appletree

Stumbling upon the unexpected, you are realized anew. I have been enjoying Martin’s poems on his…
Koun Yamada

‘All the anxieties and suffering of humanity stem from the paradox that while we are by…
Nyogen Senzaki

‘This mind is Buddha and no other, but one who clings to words and postulates an…
Miaoxin

‘Seventeen monks, traveling in search of enlightenment, came to visit the famous teacher Master Yangshan Huiji.…
Hongzhi

‘Thoroughly observing each thing with the whole eye is a patch-robed monk’s spontaneous conduct.’ (Cultivating the Empty…
Shundo Aoyama

‘Spring comes to all, equally. It does not come quickly because someone wants it to, or…
Dogen

‘Once someone asked: “Suppose a student, hearing it taught that he himself is the Buddhadharma and…
Basho

Now, as soon as eyes of the hawk, too, darken quail chirp