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  • Lama Willa Miller

    ‘We might think that the opposite of grasping is detachment, but actually it is intimacy. Intimacy…

  • Rev. angel Kyodo williams

    ‘Our anxiety comes from the desire to have things be different. There’s going to be the…

  • The Health Of The People Is The Highest Law

    On Tuesday night, what with the clock change and everything, I went to bed after Florida…

  • Doshin Mako Voelkel

    ‘There’s an image in Zen of the “board-carrying fellow.” You can imagine the visual. It’s like…

  • Sokei-An

    ‘When we forget ourselves and abandon ourselves entirely to Nature, the great force of Nature operates…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘Zazen is, to the end, the direct abandonment of everyday life. It is the extra-ordinary activity…

  • Longya

    A rag-robed chewer of vegetables,my heart is like the clear autumn moonthrough and through. Ask me…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘In the Zen tradition they say there is no such thing as “spiritual growth” anyway. In…

  • Dogen

    ‘Suppose someone asks me, “How is it when a person of great enlightenment returns to delusion?”…

  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘No matter how cleverly we might manipulate ideas, coming right down to it, our real motive…