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  • Dogen

    ‘When you have unsurpassed wisdom, you are called a buddha. When a buddha has unsurpassed wisdom,…

  • Why Tassajara?

    ‘There is more to the religious value of practicing in a place like Tassajara than the…

  • Moving Into Darkness

    I published this on my Patreon page last weekend: I liked the line I read in…

  • Anita Hill

    ‘Since the making of the U.S. Constitution, people in this country have voiced their yearning to…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    When a drop of water falls in the ocean, 
When a speck of dust falls on…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I think we naturally need some way of life as a group and as Zen students…

  • First Rains

    People spoke of rain last week, but it didn’t  happen then. Now, the week the clocks…

  • Dogen

    ‘The old head of the house, after falling in the grass for six years, during the…

  • Daoxin

    ‘In the year Gui Mao (643], the emperor Tai Zong, hearing about Daoxin’s reputation, invited the…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘If you seek a kind of wisdom that is unchanging, an eternal wisdom that exists in…