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  • Andrew Solomon

    ‘Social media acts on the same neurological pleasure circuitry as is involved in addiction to nicotine,…

  • Ryokan

    In the stillness by the empty windowI sit in formal meditation wearing my monk’s surplice,Navel and…

  • Days Of Stillness

    I took a relatively short ride on Sunday morning last weekend; in the space of a…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I saw many people and many business men who were interested in Zen. I am quite…

  • Dogen

    ‘To seek to know the self is always the wish of living beings. However, those who…

  • Takuan Soho

    ‘The mind must be left to itself, utterly free to move about according to its own…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘The Avatamsaka Sutra explains that truth does not exist by itself, separate from phenomena, and phenomena do not…

  • Dougald Hine

    ‘I notice something light up in the other student, when I name my own shyness. A…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    Searching for attributes is wrong Seeing no form is like death Don’t ask if it’s vast…

  • Chiang Wei-nung

    ‘A tathagata is the embodiment of a dharma, and a dharma body has no form. What…