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  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘It’s an idea of the mind to believe that the ego can escape itself and project…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘As the Buddhist tradition evolved, relations between the two basic types of meditation were worked out…

  • Reasons To Be Cheerful

    After my last teaching session on Wednesday, I went out to pick up my weekly bread…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When we don’t see the reality of our lives, we are ignorant of impermanence, egolessness, that…

  • The Stars Align

    This week I have a sense of things easing up for Thanksgiving – at least I…

  • Hui-Neng

    ‘Freedom from form means detachment from forms in the midst of form. Freedom from thought means…

  • Jane Hirshfield

    You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It’s like the…

  • Yaoshan

    The disciples Daowu and Yunyan stood in attendance to the master. Master Yaoshan pointed to two…

  • Rebecca Solnit

    ‘Climate chaos makes us fear that we will lose what is beautiful in this world. I…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘A community of practitioners traditionally is called a “pure and clean, great ocean of people.” Don’t…