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  • Dogen

    In my begging bowlViolets and dandelions Jumbled togetherI offer themTo the BuddhasOf the three worlds

  • A Time of Blossoms

    We are still going through some turbulent weather – March has come in like a lion,…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘Wanting to be alone is impossible. When you become really alone you notice you are not…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Although they have water, the people in Hell cannot drink it because the water burns like…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘If you can practice persistently, firmly focusing on that place wherein reason cannot enter, you will…

  • The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings

    ‘Of these bodhisattvas there is none who is not a great saint of the Law-body. They…

  • Pico Iyer

    ‘I feel that religious longing, the sense of something beyond us, is very real. But the…

  • Tahui

    When wind blows the willow catkins, the woolly seeds sail away;When rain strikes the pear blossoms,…

  • Rainbow Weather

    One thing I learned, going into yet another wet weekend last weekend, is that most people…

  • bell hooks

    ‘Because of the awareness that love and domination cannot co-exist, there is a collective call for…