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  • Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka

    ‘We believe that an individual who sits in meditation is already in the world of emptiness…

  • Sophie McBain

    ‘While we tend to focus on our close relationships, psychologists have noticed that even what they…

  • Han-shan

    I entrust my swift steps to lead me wherever they might My body is like a…

  • Julian Daizan Skinner

    ‘Many people think of awakening as a mental or emotional process that is unconnected to the…

  • Nancy Mujo Baker

    ‘Failure to tell the truth to ourselves, is one of the most interesting forms of lying.…

  • Dogen

    ‘Do not treasure or belittle what is far away, but be intimate with it. Do not…

  • Sekkei Harada

    You must realize that there is no ultimate thing other than your condition right now. The…

  • Guo Gu

    ‘When I was in my early twenties, I practiced so I could rid myself of vexations…

  • Thomas Merton

    ‘Are monastics and hippies and poets relevant? No, we’re deliberately irrelevant. We live with an ingrained…

  • Sunday Poem

    Roaming on mindful mountain Wisps of fog and cooling breezes Dusty trails that once were streams…