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  • Dogen

    ‘Direct hearing is not merely observing. It is true observation. It is not at the moment…

  • Melvin Christopher Horton

    You asked me to bow. I couldn’t. You asked me to kneel. I couldn’t figure out…

  • Daoxin

    ‘Let it be known: Buddha is the mind.  Outside of the mind there is no Buddha. …

  • Nishiari Bokusan

    ‘The reason lotus flowers are not stained with mud is that they are free within mud.…

  • Trust

    ‘“One could tell the story of human civilization as a story of how we learned to…

  • Annie Murphy Paul

    ‘The thing about the outdoors and the way that the human species evolved in the outdoors,…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘Continuously I suggest that you have good posture, because posture is a sort of proof of…

  • Transitions

    For many years, I have thought of September as more of a month of transition than…

  • Jakusho Kwong

    Night dies into day. Day dies into night. Exhaling is intimate with loss, Inhaling I am…

  • Yunju

    ‘Yunju once saw a monk silently reading a sutra in his room. He asked the monk…