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  • Xuefeng and the Hermit

    Near Mount Xuefeng there was a hermit who lived in a hut that he had built.…

  • Dogen

    ‘Ejo asked, “When I read the collections of old masters’ sayings or koans, I can understand…

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

    ‘Only a person who lives not in time but in the present is happy. For life…

  • Charlotte Joko Beck

    Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering;holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream;each moment, life as…

  • Harry Roberts

    ‘Remember in your thnking that this is a Buddhist community. And we are trying to live…

  • This Weekend

    Driving back to San Francisco after the weekend at Wilbur, I was glad to come over…

  • Last Weekend

    Last weekend I was up at Wilbur, for the second time this summer. As with the…

  • Koshin Paley Ellison

    ‘One of my students wrote to me that they were having a lot of visceral response…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘We all talk about liking this person and disliking that person, but our likes and dislikes…

  • Oliver Burkeman

    ‘People-pleasing tendencies develop for different specific reasons, but right at the core of all of them…