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Dana Velden
‘Intimacy can be a difficult request. In order to be intimate, we need to give up…
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Dale S. Wright
‘In the Large Sutra on Parfect Wisdom, a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple, Subhuti,…
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Dougald Hine
‘If you have a gift for putting words together and passing exams, then the kind of…
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Suzuki Roshi
‘People may say, if the purpose of Zen is to see “things as it is,” then…
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Gyoson Daisojo
On a mountain slope Solitary, unaccompanied stands a cherry tree Except from you lonely friend To…
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Yuanwu
‘There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane…
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angel Kyodo williams
‘We are shaped by all sorts of conditions and causes and circumstances and time and era…
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The Stove Clock
It’s been a week. On Friday and Saturday we had two warm and lovely afternoons for…
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Shishuang
A monk asked, “What is the intention of coming from the west?” The master said, “A…
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Katagiri Roshi
‘We live by our effort, but this is a narrow understanding, so we have to live…
Shundo David Haye - Zen Priest 