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  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘Illusion and awakening do not have different natures. We must grasp the origin of that which…

  • Walking The Dog

    Right now in San Francisco, we are between a heatwave and an atmospheric river – between…

  • Izumi Shikibu

    Watching the moonat dawn,solitary, mid-sky,I knew myself completely:no part left out.

  • Muriel Daw

    ‘I once heard a roshi give an ‘as-if’ explanation of Rinzai Zen methods. He said that…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Even though we say “just sit,” to understand what does it mean is rather difficult, maybe.…

  • Yunyan

    ‘Yunyan asked a monk what he was doing. The monk replied, “I’ve been talking to a…

  • Rosen Takashina

    ‘What is called Zazen means to live at peace in the true basis of the universe,…

  • Muso Soseki

    ‘The Patriarchs and the descendants of the Bodhidharma are not supposed to rely on words and…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘It’s a fairy tale to think that once we have attained deep faith, or have had…

  • Mumon

    When the sky clears, the sun appears;  When the rain falls, the earth is wet.  With…