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  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Spiritual discipline is best conceived not as the repression of the energy of desire, but rather…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘Once you’ve been taught a good posture, you feel gratitude and spontaneously do gassho. You feel…

  • Dogen

    It seems that the mountain spring wind Has begun to blow – On the peaks and…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘So even [if] you practice hard, your zazen sometime will be good, sometime will not be…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘No matter what path you follow to reach the place of truth, the place you arrive…

  • Gaylon Ferguson

    ‘My first Buddhist meditation teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, spoke of non-effort as a worthy partner to…

  • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

    ‘It wasn’t until I officiated my first Jukai ceremony—lay initiation for students—that living a life of…

  • Mazu

    ‘Master Shui Lao asked Mazu, “What is the true meaning of the coming from the West?”…

  • Yunmen

    ‘There really is nothing at all to give you to understand, or to give you to…

  • Tongan

    The solitary peak is high and grand, Not a single layer of mist. The crescent moon…