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  • James Joyce

    ‘Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the…

  • Ryokan

    Without desire everything is sufficient.With seeking myriad things are impoverished.Plain vegetables can soothe hunger.A patched robe…

  • A Mixed Bag

    It doesn’t feel that there has been much to write about; maybe that is just a…

  • Daowu

    ‘Daowu was sitting on the high seat of meditation when a monk came and asked, “What…

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘The difficulty of Dogen’s language helps to free us from those preconceptions and significantly expand our…

  • Roxanne Dault

    ‘To understand Buddhism through the body is to understand the three characteristics. As we investigate the…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘Our mind seems to have many strata. In Buddhism one way of looking at it is…

  • Nikole Hannah-Jones

    ‘The reality is, the belief that Blackness is an immutable, genetic racial category that transcends all…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    Doing zazen calmly in the dojo,Putting aside all negative thoughts,Obtaining nothing but a mind without desire,–…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘The most difficult challenge associated with the perfection of tolerance is tolerating the truth of uncertainty…