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  • Lewis Richmond

    ‘They say that when Buddha was enlightened the earth shook. For a long time I didn’t…

  • Yantou

    ‘Three monks, Xuefeng, Qinshan, and Yantou, met in the temple garden. Xuefeng saw a water pail…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘You don’t know how vast the human world is. Even if you touch it, you don’t…

  • Barbara O’Brien

    ‘Zen’s stories also have created Zen’s identity as a tradition. The tradition that is Zen came…

  • Year Of The Tiger

    Over the weekend, I noticed that the city was quite festooned with red, due to two…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘This place belongs neither to Rinzai nor Soto, and this monk never claimed to be a…

  • Tiantong

    Without tracks, No news. The white clouds are rootless – What colour is the pure breeze?…

  • Zoketsu Norman Fischer

    ‘I wish you could write all this down, take it home and do it, and then…

  • Dogen

    ‘In general, when you are a beginner you cannot fathom the buddha way. Your assumptions do…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘”Nonthought” doesn’t mean turning our backs on the world and greedily seeking our own quiet, thought-free…