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  • Mumon

    The spring flowers, the autumn moon;Summer breezes, winter snow.If useless things do not clutter your mind,You…

  • First Rainbows

    It seemed that the transition between our last heatwave and winter was quite short this year.…

  • Dizang

    Dizang saw a monastic coming and held up a whisk.The monastic bowed.Dizang said, “What did you…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘To give the gift of fearlessness is to give others the sense that they matter; that…

  • Hui Hai

    ‘Using the mind for practices is like washing dirty things in sticky mud. Prajna is mysterious…

  • Rev. angel Kyodo williams

    ‘I interpret the November 2016 election as a moment of reckoning that we’ve needed for a…

  • Jenny Odell

    ‘The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and…

  • Fu Hsi

    From a single thought ariseDeeds wrought by delusion,Sixty-two mistaken viewsNine hundred crazy ins and outsBut then…

  • We Together

    I never quite get the whole thing about having an extra hour of sleep when the…

  • Rev. Liên Shutt

    ‘In the West, we’re taught to lean heavily on the mind’s narrative, thinking it defines us…