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  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Impatience jangles my nerves; it severely diminishes my mind and character. More important, it is upsetting…

  • Dogen

    ‘We are thousands of miles away from the land where the Buddha was born, on the…

  • Matthieu Ricard

    ‘They said, “Can you give us the three secrets of happiness?” I said: “First, there’s no…

  • Duncan Ryuken Williams

    ‘The truth is that the well-known “orthodox” Zen monks of the Tokugawa period were paradoxically marginal,…

  • Soen Nakagawa

    I came to this mountainLooking for enlightenment.There was no enlightenment on the mountain.Whether laughing or cryingAll…

  • Nancy Mujo Baker

    ‘When we begin practicing and learn how to relax into our bodies and minds, sometimes down…

  • Red Pine

    ‘The world of objects is neither true nor false. But when we think of it as…

  • Bluer Skies

    The low feeling which had been weighing on me has moved on, thankfully. I have been…

  • Gudo Nishijima

    ‘Devotion to Dharma is devotion to the Universe itself. The Universe has its order, its beauty,…

  • Dogen

    ‘When you see an object, learn to clarify it. Being scared of it and ay trying…