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  • Moving Into Darkness

    I published this on my Patreon page last weekend: I liked the line I read in…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I think we naturally need some way of life as a group and as Zen students…

  • First Rains

    People spoke of rain last week, but it didn’t  happen then. Now, the week the clocks…

  • Dogen

    ‘The old head of the house, after falling in the grass for six years, during the…

  • Days Of Stillness

    I took a relatively short ride on Sunday morning last weekend; in the space of a…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I saw many people and many business men who were interested in Zen. I am quite…

  • Onwards

    My birthday was well celebrated in our household. I was very touched by what Ruth put…

  • Dogen

    ‘For [following] the family style of relying on grasses, and the mind of grasping trees, the…

  • Reflections On Turning Sixty

    I am usually pretty coy about my age; you could call it a lingering vanity. People…

  • Hot

    This week we really did end up with a heatwave, perhaps the warmest week of the…