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  • Dayang

    ‘Zen master Jingxuan of Mount Dayang once asked Liangshan. “What is the formless seat of enlightenment?”…

  • Yunmen

    If you don’t pay attention, You will miss it. If you think about it, In what…

  • Judy Roitman

    ‘I don’t want to go down the neurophysiology rabbit hole—there’s a huge body of literature by…

  • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

    ‘When we face the mirror of zazen, our minds tend to face ourselves as objects first…

  • bell hooks

    ‘This is always the measure of mindful practice—whether we can create the conditions for love and…

  • Ruth King

    ‘Equanimity is awareness so spacious that whatever arises in our mind and heart, whether agreeable or…

  • 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…