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  • Keizan Jokin

    ‘People, try for a moment to look carefully without scattering your mind all over the place…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Zen student is not, you know, so expressive, you know. Mostly they keep silent. They do…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘We have to understand that at some point we have to develop an attitude of needing…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘The basic technique for concentration involves bringing the mind to the object of concentration and patiently…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    Searching for attributes is wrong Seeing no form is like death Don’t ask if it’s vast…

  • Dogen

    ‘Some people think that buddha nature is like seeds of grass and trees: when dharma rain…

  • angel Kyodo williams

    ‘I always say that I’m not nation-building around Zen; I’m not nation-building around Buddhism. I think…

  • Respite

    The temperature dropped, quite considerably, on Wednesday. As much as I usually grumble about the fog,…

  • Rosen Takashina

    ‘Stillness in the midst of action is the fundamental principle of Zazen (sitting in meditation).  Some…

  • Corey Ichigen Hess

    ‘Doing this creative, natural standing practice was a gateway for me to open up.  I started…