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  • Touzi

    A monk asked, “In the entire store of scriptural teachings, is there any one particularly important…

  • Gloria Mark

    ‘Sometimes when we switch our attention, we might get really caught up in something, like the…

  • Giun

    Do not overlook what is right in front of you,Endless spring appears with the early plum…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘What I noticed here, you know, in observing your practice, you are not completely involved in…

  • Sitting and Settling

    At a month out from the solstice, we are starting to see some appreciable difference in…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘Too many people believe that this world exists to satisfy desires, which are based on their…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Whether practicing in daily life or zazen, there is no way to conceive of being a…

  • Dogen

    ‘Nowadays elders of different monasteries say that only direct experience without discrimination to hear the unhearable…

  • Mosab Abu Toha

    ‘In “A State of Siege,” the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish writes something that is difficult to…

  • Michio Mado

    When I came back home on a rainy day,A cleaning rag was waiting for me in…