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  • Zen Master Seung Sahn

    ‘Zen is very simple…What are you? In this whole world everyone searches for happiness outside, but…

  • Jill Lepore

    ‘The louder the talk about burnout, it appears, the greater the number of people who say…

  • Jaukusho Kwong

    ‘OK. The word when. There was a Rinzai roshi who explained the four-letter word when. He…

  • Zenkei Blanche Hartman

    ‘The first three years I was doing zazen, I didn’t sit through a single period for…

  • Dogen

    ‘The purpose of awakening to the old stories of the Patriarchs of Zen is to modify…

  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘There is no way that you can exert yourself in this world without that exertion being…

  • Gary Snyder

    There is no remedy for satisfying hunger other than a painted rice cake. —Dōgen, November, 1242.…

  • June French

    ‘A couple of decades of reading about Zen didn’t prepare me for the actual experience of…

  • Josho Pat Phelan

    ‘Many of the instructions for Zen meditation are directed to the physical details of our posture.…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘The first paragraph is the framework of whole Buddhism.  First paragraph: All—when all things are in…