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  • 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…

  • Eido Frances Carney

    ‘Coming to the realization of Buddha Mind, to Buddha Nature, is understanding once and for all,…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘A monastery is not some particular place. Whether you can make Tassajara a monastery or not…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘The truth of Buddhism is realized through practice; it is attained through the body. The way…

  • Tettsu Gikai

    Everyone bound by karma,speaking of a Buddha-mind “within”. Tied up by thisI couldn’t find it. Finally…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘Whichever way we go, we just live the self which is only the self, and there…