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  • J.C. Cleary

    ‘From our point of view at the time, our mental state as teenagers in the 1960s,…

  • Teijo Munnich

    ‘In order to awaken to the truth of life and reality, we first have to become…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    Sitting silent late at night in a mountain shrine Desolate and deserted is just the way…

  • Blue Skies

    Like a switch being flipped, the fog burned off on Thursday, and the skies cleared. Friday…

  • Jakusho Kwong

    ‘You could say when there is this—you, the personal you— there is that; this is karma.…

  • Sensei Alex Kakuyo

    ‘A rough translation of ‘intoku’ is, “good done in secret”.  It epitomizes the Buddhist ideal that we should…

  • Nan Shepherd

    ‘Having disciplined mind and body to quiescence, I must discipline them also to activity. The senses…

  • Dogen

    ‘Students of the Way, you must not cling to your own personal views. Even though you…

  • Soft Attention

    Someone who has been attending perhaps my favourite ongoing corporate meditation group forwarded me an article…

  • Yuanwu

    A fish swims, making the water murky. A bird flies, shedding its feathers. The ultimate mirror…