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  • The End of May

    Thankfully, the holiday weekend went pretty much as planned. It felt like we had a perfect…

  • Jakusho Kwong

    ‘DC: What was his teaching? What did he teach?JK: I really can’t say, a teaching per…

  • Sotan Tatsugami

    ‘Dogen Zenji asks: “How do you think the unthinkable?” Answeringhimself, Dogen says: “non-thinking”. “Non” is not…

  • Tracy Chapman

    ‘I was saying to someone recently, who expressed something similar, that there’s a part of me…

  • Fuke

    If a clear mind comes, I let it be clear.
If a deluded mind comes, I let…

  • Guishan

    Guishan asked Yangshan, “How do you understand inconceivable, clear, bright mind?”Yangshan said, “Mountains, rivers, the great…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘If you understand something about Buddhist philosophy or the deep teaching of Buddhism, you may be…

  • Flashbacks

    Following a day of prodigious wind on Saturday, we have finally arrived at the warm and…

  • Dogen

    ‘If the First Patriarch had not come from the west, how could the living beings of…

  • Toni Johanson

    ‘When I went that morning and was sitting facing the wall I thought, this can’t be…