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  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘Zazen becomes our daily life. It’s certainly not a matter of remaining frozen indefinitely in zazen.…

  • Cijiao

    Before the birth of mother and father,One solid circle;Even Shakyamuni didn’t understand it –How could Kasyapa…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘People may think Zen is a wonderful teaching, you know. “If you study Zen, you will…

  • Longshan

    Longshan met Dongshan and Shenshan when they were traveling together. Seeing a vegetable leaf floating down…

  • Zenkei Blanche Hartman

    ‘I understand the precepts not as rules to follow, but more as, “Be very careful in…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘I think Buddhist and Zen teachings too often put emphasis on no-self and universal-self and forget…

  • Jan Willis

    ‘Nirvana is not a place! Rather, it is simply a view! Remember what the Indian Buddhist…

  • Alison Gopnik

    ‘I think that there’s a paradox about, for example, going out and saying, I am going…

  • Jane Hirshfield

    1025 molecules are enough to call wood thrush or apple. A hummingbird, fewer. A wristwatch: 1024.…

  • Chan Master Sheng Yen

    ‘There are four components of compassion. The first is that we understand our own conflicts and…