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  • Kritee

    ‘Deepest zazen doesn’t change anything outside of us. It makes clear the interconnected nature of all…

  • Rengetsu

    Leaking from the rock in an old temple, water barely trickles – the voice of the…

  • Yvonne Rand

    ‘Harry Roberts was a teacher who worked with many of us involved in planting the garden…

  • Koun Ejo

    ‘To inhale or to exhale, to listen or to touch, being without thoughts and discrimination is…

  • Here We Are

    There has been a heat wave this past week in San Francisco. That’s unusual enough for…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Originally this expression shikantaza was used not by Dogen himself but by his teacher Rujing. We not…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Wisdom, therefore, is the ability to face the truth and not to be unnerved or frightened.…

  • Daito Kokushi

    ‘After my departure, some of you may preside over fine temples in prosperous conditions, with towers…

  • Barbara Kingsolver

    Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin but: Do not take your walking shoes.…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘A spiritual path is where we are working to transform what is difficult or burdensome into…