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  • Mountains and Waters Sutras

    When I lived at Zen Center, I would eat lunch out in the courtyard every day…

  • Dogen

    ‘Some people think that buddha nature is like seeds of grass and trees: when dharma rain…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘In the reality of Buddha’s life, we are connected with and supported by all things. The…

  • Willa Blythe Baker

    ‘If you sit still and watch your mind, everything that sleeps in your psyche and your…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘If the bodhisattva realizes she or he could give up anything and everything because there is…

  • Boxes

    My sister and her husband have been doing sterling work – she being the only sibling…

  • Nagarjuna

    This body manifests a full moon expressing the bodies of all buddhas, teaching that it has…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘The word “energy” [for the perfection of energy] translates the Sanskrit virya, a very important and…

  • Reaching For Resolution

    ‘As a professor, I detect a similar hope in the students who take my feminism classes,…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘My teacher Gudo Nishijima Roshi wrote a book called Understanding The Shobogenzo. Shobogenzo is a famous…