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  • Hakuin

    ‘The ocean of true reality is boundless and profoundly deep. The Buddha Way is immeasurably vast.…

  • Gudo Nishijima

    ‘The precepts guide us in our life. They have come from the experience of the truth…

  • Joan Sutherland

    ‘Awakening is a marriage of wisdom and compassion, and both wisdom and compassion are made up…

  • Keizan Jokin

    ‘Both body and mind drop off in zazen.  It is far beyond the form of sitting…

  • Gesshu Soko

    Searching for fame and gain keeps everyone restlessly busy but in the sun’s warmth and a…

  • Dogen

    ‘If you want to read sutras, you should follow the scriptural teachings recommended by Caoxi [the…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘Zazen itself is the teacher of zazen, not a person. Zazen will teach you about zazen…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘A mind that lacks clarity and breadth will experience a world lacking clarity and breadth. Self-centered…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘The practice of spirituality is the practice of remembering who we really are beyond our suffering,…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘There is no end– there is no end in our practice. Because there is no end…