December 2019
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Dharma Talk
Today I am giving the Saturday talk at Zen Center, which is the first time I…
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Dana Velden
‘To cook a meal for someone is to give them many gifts: the gift of your…
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Issho Fujita
‘In non-gaining zazen, the importance is placed on the way one is, moment by moment, rather…
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What If?
Another week, another thought provoking New Yorker article. I have written about virtual reality before, perhaps…
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Kodo Sawaki
‘You lack peace of mind because you’re running after an idea of total peace of mind.…
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Diane Eshin Rizzetto
‘The value of working with this precept [the precept of not intoxicating, but cultivating a clear…
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Mumon
Don’t draw another’s bow, Don’t ride another’s horse, Don’t discuss another’s faults, Don’t explore another’s affairs.
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Shinshu Roberts
‘We might observe that the stages of so-called sequential time are not actually available to us.…
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Shohaku Okumura
‘ “Therefore, water is in places that are not rivers and seas; it is just that,…
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Joseph Hall
‘Two handed practice is not an official form in the Sotoshu manual, but it is one…
