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  • Fayan

    ‘A monk asked Fayan, “What is Buddha?” Fayan replied, “First I want to ask you to…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘Whether sitting or standing or walking, what is important is that state of continuing clear mind…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘One must abandon all learning when practicing Zen. Our practice must be such that each breath…

  • Willa Blythe Baker

    ‘One of the gifts of meditation practice is that it provides us with a way to…

  • October

    There is an incredible stillness that has arrived, as it often does at this time of…

  • Mumon

    Not falling, not evading—two faces of the same die.Not evading, not falling—a thousand mistakes, ten thousand…

  • Bessel van der Kolk

    ‘What we tend to leave out of most of our discussions about human functioning is to…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘No amount of brain research has given us access to consciousness as it manifests internally to…

  • Annie Murphy Paul

    ‘Actually the brain evolved in particular settings, mostly outside. It evolved to do things like sense…

  • Lisa Feldman Barrett

    ‘In the lectures Barrett gives to explain this model, she talks of the brain as a…