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  • Changeable

    The wind and rain have come in together in the past week, and it feels seasonally…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘There’s such a pervasive feeling that “The suffering is intractable, so what could my contribution possibly…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘One day I was taking a lunch break in the confines of Toji Temple. As we…

  • Shishuang

    ‘A monk asked, “What is the intention of coming from the west?” The master said, “A…

  • Rempo Niwa

    ‘In Master Dogen’s Gakudo Yojinshu, he states, “In the buddha way, one should always enter and…

  • Ryokan

    The plants and flowers I raised about my hut I now surrender To the will Of…

  • Rebecca Solnit

    ‘Being a parent is expensive. Being a criminal is also expensive, whether you lose economic opportunities…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Hashimoto Roshi, the authority of Shobogenzo who passed away two years ago, in his lecture he…

  • Dogen

    ‘Through the merit of practice you may be given the gift of an entire nation, and…

  • Cheri Huber

    ‘In long-term spiritual practice, we can find ourselves in this sort of terribly humbling situation. We…