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  • A Weekend of Roams

    After the previous weekend’s later-than-usual rain, we had some long-overdue high temperatures this past weekend, and…

  • Dogen

    ‘Risking our dewdroplike life in crossing the ocean of ten thousand li and crossing mountains and…

  • Yuanwu

    A fish swims, making the water murky. A bird flies, shedding its feathers.The ultimate mirror is…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘To fall in love is ecstasy, but marriage is everyday life. Everyday life has rainy days,…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘Mind as the universal path is peaceful and simultaneously dynamic. How can something be both peaceful…

  • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

    ‘When we are in spiritual community, perfect or not, we see ourselves more clearly. We see…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘When I came to America for the first time, for pretty long time, as our old…

  • Frankly…

    I had been planning to write something anodyne about the rain on Sunday and getting wetter…

  • Darlene Cohen

    ‘Because we have been educated to put so much importance on our ability to formulate thoughts…

  • Tianning

    Within differentiation there is oneness. Within oneness there is differentiation. Drifting in the human world hundreds…