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Suzuki Roshi
‘Don’t say, “By practice I shall be buddha [laughs] tomorrow.” That is what he– he said.…
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Knee-Deep In Dogen
My class starts tomorrow, and I have been reading commentaries, character-by-character translation studies, and other random…
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Keizan
‘Do not think that studying the way is limited to body and mind. To study the…
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Huineng
‘What is the single essential matter? It is the buddha unfolding knowledge and entering realization. You…
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Basho
One day a monk asked Master Eishu Basho: “It is said that we Buddhists do not…
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Iris Murdoch
‘I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious…
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Dogen
In spring, the cherry blossoms,In summer, the cuckoo’s song,In autumn, the moon, shining,In winter, the frozen…
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Into 2024
Miraculously, I managed to stay awake until midnight on New Year’s Eve – for the first…
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Suzuki Roshi
‘But precepts for me is also include rituals. And when we say “precepts,” it– it is…
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The Diamond Sutra
‘The Lord asked: What do you think, Subhuti, if there were as many Ganges rivers as…
Shundo David Haye - Zen Priest 