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  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I think most of you have wrong idea, you know, about freedom or things-as-they-are [laughs]. When…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘We have to live our lives in the complete realisation that we are already forgiven, that…

  • Dogen

    Attaining the heartOf the sutra,Are not even the soundsOf the bustling marketplaceThe preaching of the Dharma?

  • Dale S. Wright

     ‘Zen masters are said to reside in a state of “no-mind” or “no-thought,” a relation to…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘I vividly remember what my grandfather master, the late Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, said to me when…

  • Traveling On

    After taking care of my mother (insofar as she accepted care) and walking the familiar paths…

  • Konjin Gaelyn Godwin

    ‘My faith is that when people see a true practitioner they feel it, when they meet…

  • Dana Velden

    ‘It’s more complicated and riskier for us to meet a person fresh each time we see…

  • Brother Phap Hai

    ‘Recently, a practitioner asked me about the benefits of meditation. I knew that she was hoping…

  • Issa

    Even in Kyoto,Hearing the cuckoo’s cry,I long for Kyoto