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  • Zongze

    ‘Once you have settled your posture and regulated your breathing, you should relax your abdomen. Do…

  • Norman Farb and Zindel Segal

    Scientists have even found that quite a few of us would rather give ourselves painful electrical shocks than…

  • Yunmen

    How steep is Yunmen’s mountain!How low the white clouds hang!The mountain stream rushes so swiftlyThat fish…

  • Bodhidharma

    ‘The sutras say, “The cave of five aggregates is the hall of zen. The opening of…

  • Hot

    This week we really did end up with a heatwave, perhaps the warmest week of the…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Because Buddha was the founder of the teaching so people called tentatively Buddhism, but actually Buddhism…

  • Eido Frances Carney

    ‘When a person takes on the Okesa, and begins practice wearing the Robe, we refer to…

  • Leaving Home

    ‘Good son (good daughter), the source of mind is utterly still, the sea of Dharma  profoundly…

  • Jia Tolentino

    ‘I think that for me, the thing connecting all of those is some sort of submission…

  • Longya

    Study the way like boring wood to make fire. When smoke arises do not stop.Just wait…