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  • Genro

    The whole world is my garden. Birds sing my song; Winds blow as my breath; The…

  • Keizan

    ‘The practice of the doctrine of emptiness has been called the teaching of liberation right from…

  • Amanda Petrusich

    ‘Outside religious spaces, posing the big questions—how we arrived here; what we’re supposed to do with…

  • Rebecca Li

    ‘Right action refers to actions in accordance with wisdom and compassion. Wisdom means responding to what…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘Where does breathing originate, what is the beginning and end of each in-breath, out-breath? Who, or…

  • Dogen

    ‘Within this unsurpassable manifestation of enlightenment, the entire world of the ten directions is but a…

  • Three Ways of Telling the Time

    This post first appeared on my Patreon page, which is home to more musings, some zen…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    Sifting sand in the sea is a waste stirring up dust wherever you go better to…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘The Heart Sutra, the most compact version of the Wisdom Sutras, begins by claiming that those…

  • Nancy Mujo Baker

    ‘When our minds are still and open to our experience instead of interfering with it by…