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  • Stretch Goals

    One of the benefits of not having really gone anywhere in eighteen months is that I…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘All of us instinctively want to be happy, but all too often, lasting happiness eludes us.…

  • Lew Richmond

    ‘I spent many years slowly incorporating, testing out, asking, “Does my practice really reach that area?”…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Student: Docho Roshi, what am I asking you? SR: I know what you want to ask…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘While we are sitting in zazen, we definitely have a feeling of disappointment and unsatisfactoriness, a…

  • Yunju

    The single Dharma is the essence of all dharmas. The myriad dharmas penetrate the one Dharma.…

  • Focusing On The Wrong Thing

    Generally I pride myself on being diligent and organised. Having had a few big things to…

  • Dogen

    ‘Is the Way attained through the mind or through the body? The teaching schools say that,…

  • Fen-yang

    ‘A monk asked Fen-yang, “If there is no bit of cloud in the sky for ten…

  • Kokyo Henkel

    ‘In Dōgen’s monastery Eiheiji, during his time, there was a study hall (shuryō) equipped with individual…