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Suzuki Roshi
‘As you are listening to me you may feel you have understood, but when you leave…
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Mohammed R. Mhawish
‘Reconstruction that restores roads but not representation will only re-create dependency. The next phase of Gaza’s…
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Xuedou
Reaching out your arms is climbing the ten-thousand-foot cliff.Oneness and differentiation are not necessarily fixed.The old…
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Judy Lief
‘Being learned is great, but it’s not the point. Being a good meditator is great, but…
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Katagiri Roshi
‘During the sesshin, we try to make every possible effort to polish your practice for a…
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Koshin Paley Ellison
‘Zen practice is not abstract, it’s deeply relational. There is the relationship with a teacher, but…
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Suzuki Roshi
‘The main point of my lecture this afternoon is that the usual understanding of practice as…
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The Tail of the Typhoon
We got woken up by a call very early on Friday; Ruth’s mother, who had been…
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Roxane Gay
‘Nonviolence didn’t mean passivity. It was a strategy, intended to reveal the brutal contrast between the…
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Raymond Carver
And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To…
