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  • Ryokan

    On a somber spring evening around midnight,Rain mixed with snow sprinkled on the bamboos in the…

  • Sun and Rain

    This week was quite something in the weather stakes. The weekend had been perfectly nice, and…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘You know, while we are practicing zazen we heard rain dropping from the roof — in…

  • Keizan Jokin

    ‘Do not think of sound as do-re-mi-ta-so. Do not think of forms as blue, yellow, red,…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Why is it important to remember that patience is empty of patience? Because it reminds us…

  • Dogen

    ‘In expounding the buddha way, womb birth and transformation birth are usually mentioned, but not moisture…

  • Moya Sarner

    ‘I cannot fathom the world-ending pain of losing a child, but I do recognise that terror of…

  • Sanping

    This seeing and hearing is not seeing and hearing, And there is no sound or form…

  • Longer Days

    We have passed through the clock change and the Spring Equinox, and it is starting to…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘If one repeats what he hears from others or reads in books, he is not spreading…