September 2023

Hui-neng

‘Making offerings results in external merit. Reciting sutras results in internal merit. External merit includes food…
Katagiri Roshi

‘Dogen Zenji says bukkojo… advance. If you find something wrong with the direction, you should return…
Dale S. Wright

‘That an individual achieves the status of “enlightenment” or “wisdom” is attributable to that person’s individual…
Suzuki Roshi

‘You may say Zen is very difficult, but actually Zen is soft, because there is no…
Autumnal

As we passed through the equinox, at the farmers market berries were replaced by grapes and…
Naomi Klein

‘Q: You also write about another kind of shadow self, borrowing a formulation from the writer…
Jenny Allen

Breathing in, I wash the dishes,Aware of their usefulness in holdingNourishing meals that have sustained my…
Sekkei Harada

‘There is nothing that is not the Dharma, including oneself. It is impossible to create a…
Shodo Harada

‘In order to align our senses, we have to align our mind. But this does not…
Baizhang

‘To talk of living beings having the buddha nature is to slander the buddha, dharma, and…