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  • Shodo Harada

    ‘There is nothing special about being ordained. Enlightenment is not limited to ordained people. The practice…

  • Annie Murphy Paul

    ‘What we call a gut feeling or what psychologists, what scientists call interoception… is the perception…

  • Soen Nakagawa

    ‘”I don’t understand anything” is exactly the point of Zen. We Zen monks apply ourselves day…

  • An Empty House

    On Saturday morning I waved goodbye to Caitlin and Collin, the elderly dog, as she headed…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    It’s with you every step, with you every move, Standing up or sitting down, all year…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Bodhisattvas know that the conventional self, the ego self, isn’t the whole story or necessarily the…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘The teachings can only describe or explain what Truth is by referring to its attributes or…

  • Red Pine

    ‘Every teaching focuses on this to the exclusion of that, upholds one thing and ignores or…

  • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

    ‘When the journey of finding home takes ancestral homelessness into account, we begin to understand the…

  • Sylvia Boorstein

    ‘I tell mindfulness practitioners to listen to the tone their inner voice uses to comment on…