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  • Menzan Zuiho

    ‘The famous phrase, “Do not depend on words” means that arguments about the quality of the…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘In what way do we realize and awaken to the Buddha’s mind? Everything in nature has…

  • Ruth Ozeki

    ‘The pandemic has changed our experience of faces – our own faces and others’ – in…

  • Mumon

    If you grasp the first word, You will realize the last word. The last word and…

  • All In A Day’s Work

    I didn’t really have anything on my calendar for Friday, but that doesn’t mean it was…

  • Dogen

    ‘One day in a marketplace he [Hui-neng] heard someone chanting a sutra. It was neither what…

  • Xuefeng

    ‘Xuefeng asked a monk, “Where are you going?” The monk said, “I’m going to do community…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Usually what we do is not so difficult, but the problems which follows by your imperfect…

  • Dislocations

    As the war continues in Ukraine, and the news reports continue to depress and horrify, I…

  • Rebecca Solnit

    ‘Despair is a delusion of confidence that asserts it knows what’s coming, perhaps a tool of…