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  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘Put value on the Dharma, not on individual experience and feeling. This means to put value…

  • Tahui

    ‘The obstruction of the Path by the mind and its conceptual discrimination is worse than poisonous…

  • Instructions To The Cook

    ‘After the noon meal the tenzo should go to the tsūsu and kansu to get the…

  • Mumon

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

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Your everyday life is also the expression of the inmost nature, but our everyday life is…

  • Tonen O’Connor

    ‘I’ve been reading Shohaku Okumura’s new book, The Mountains and Waters Sutra, a Practioner’s Guide to Dōgen’s Sansuikyo,and…

  • George Saunders

    ‘When I sit down to write fiction, because my attention is focused on an object, which…

  • Vows

    Back when I first started writing the Ino’s Blog, I was quite fascinated to see how…

  • Sharon Salzberg

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

  • Baizhang

    ‘Baizhang said, “I want someone to go and tell something to Xitang.” Wufeng said, “I’ll go.”…