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  • Genro

    He walked the blade of a sword;
He stepped on the ice of a frozen river;
He entered…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘We cannot avoid understanding because we are human beings, and the human brain produces thoughts. This…

  • Dogen

    ‘The Buddha Lands of the ten directions are just dharma blossoms. Here, all buddhas of the…

  • A Wet One

    A couple of days after the trip to Tassajara, I woke up with an enormous headache.…

  • Tara Brach

    ‘This is the hope: Teachers and practitioners, in growing numbers, who nourish a deepening sense of…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Student D: I don’t understand how there can be more than one buddha– how there can…

  • David Byrne

    ‘Lots of other people, scientists and philosophers, think about this more than I have: Where is…

  • Dogen

    The hub of buddhas’ activity,the turning of the ancestors’ hub,moves along with beyond thinkingand is completed…

  • A Valley Full Of Leaves

    As I know I have written about each time I have done it over the years,…

  • Reverend angel Kyodo williams

    ‘Every single one of us has someplace in which we feel that tension of external belonging…