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  • Huineng

    ‘What is the single essential matter? It is the buddha unfolding knowledge and entering realization. You…

  • Buddhas and Buddhas-in-training

    The first week of December is traditionally the time when Buddhists sit for seven days to…

  • Rempo Niwa

    ‘Master Dogen taught that we beings who are living life, all the many beings and not…

  • Casey Cep

    ‘If we regularly took an entire day off from the work and the worry of our…

  • Hongzhi

    The hub of buddhas’ activity,the turning of the ancestors’ hub, is known free of forms, illuminated…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘In what way do we realize and awaken to the Buddha’s mind? Everything in nature has…

  • Rebecca Li

    ‘In the mid-1990s, Shifu’s intensive retreats were held in the Chan Meditation Center with enough space…

  • Ben Connelly

    ‘Right effort can seem to make a lot of sense. In right effort I know what…

  • Margarita Loinaz

    ‘Most of us live within the confines of our identity as a discreet, separate self that…

  • Dogen

    ‘If you really understand the meaning of cutting off words, speech, and mental activity, you will…