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  • The Dharma Seat

    Since the end of the summer, I have not been doing so many formal activities, though…

  • Tiantong Zongjue

    White clouds end atthe frozen cliff’sedge. The essential luminositycuts through the darkness asthe bright moon followsthe…

  • The Thinking Mind

    When I lived at Tassajara, and we got up ridiculously early in the morning to sit…

  • Lama Willa Miller

    ‘To stop and watch appearances with equanimity and curiosity is a sea change. However, to become…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘”Emptiness,” the connectedness of all things, deepens everything by disclosing the complex foundations upon which all…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘While we are sitting in zazen, we definitely have a feeling of disappointment and unsatisfactoriness, a…

  • Sister Elizabeth Wagner

    ‘When we’re alone, all the fears and worries and anxieties come up, because we can’t distract…

  • Gudo Nishijima

    ‘Devotion to Dharma is devotion to the Universe itself. The Universe has its order, its beauty,…

  • Genro

    Sages and mediocrities. . . Donkeys and horses . . . All of them pull you…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘As far as I’m concerned if someone wants to call themselves a “Zen Buddhist” I will…