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  • Ryokan

    Returning home from a day of begging;Sage has covered my door.Now, a bunch of leaves burns…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘To live wholeheartedly… is to live a life of integrity, the unity of will through which…

  • Koun Franz

    ‘Dogen never speaks of realization as a one-time thing. You don’t say, Well, I got it. I’m…

  • Shishuang

    ‘When Shishuang met Daowu, he said, “What is the transcendent wisdom that meets the eye?” Daowu…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘In the Buddhist tradition we tend to be a little skeptical of hope, or perhaps it’s…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘This body and mind are like a waterfall. A river flows past a place where there…

  • Big Numbers

    It was a busy dharma week to start the year off, one of those weeks where…

  • Dogen

    Setting up a lamp and holding a brush, I wish to speak my heart. From a…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Our vital freedom will be like running water originating from a mountain and passing through valleys…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Student: You said that for an enlightened person it’s very true, and for a non-enlightened person it’s…