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  • Rujing

    ‘From the age of nineteen, I widely visited monasteries in all directions, but there was no…

  • Thanissaro Bhikku

    ‘The practice of training the mind is a matter of becoming increasingly sensitive to your actions…

  • bell hooks

    ‘The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead…

  • Ryokan

    Stopping to pick violets,
By the side of the road,
I forgot my begging bowl.
Oh, little bowl, how…

  • Denise Lapides

    ‘Balancing vulnerability with strength and not automatically “armoring up” is a challenge. To keep listening and…

  • Dogen

    ‘Thought as knowledge does not depend on other-power. Knowledge is a shape, and a shape is…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Usually when you study something, and even when you are listening to our lecture, I think…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘”Emptiness,” understood as the interdependence of all things, functions in meditation to provide the requisite conditions…

  • Fireworks

    It seemed like a good thing that July 4th fell on a Friday this year. In…

  • Terry Tempest Williams

    ‘Public lands are our public commons, breathing spaces in a country that is increasingly holding its…