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Dale S. Wright
‘Impatience jangles my nerves; it severely diminishes my mind and character. More important, it is upsetting…
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Dogen
‘We are thousands of miles away from the land where the Buddha was born, on the…
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Matthieu Ricard
‘They said, “Can you give us the three secrets of happiness?” I said: “First, there’s no…
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Duncan Ryuken Williams
‘The truth is that the well-known “orthodox” Zen monks of the Tokugawa period were paradoxically marginal,…
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Soen Nakagawa
I came to this mountainLooking for enlightenment.There was no enlightenment on the mountain.Whether laughing or cryingAll…
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Nancy Mujo Baker
‘When we begin practicing and learn how to relax into our bodies and minds, sometimes down…
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Red Pine
‘The world of objects is neither true nor false. But when we think of it as…
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Bluer Skies
The low feeling which had been weighing on me has moved on, thankfully. I have been…
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Gudo Nishijima
‘Devotion to Dharma is devotion to the Universe itself. The Universe has its order, its beauty,…
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Dogen
‘When you see an object, learn to clarify it. Being scared of it and ay trying…
