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Going Beyond
‘A monk said to Tozan,”Cold and heat descend upon us. How can we avoid them?” Tozan…
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Walking Like Lions
From time to time, Zen Center hosts venerable dignitaries from the Japanese zen establishment, and if…
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Jane Hirshfield
A Cedary Fragrance Even now, decades after, I wash my face with cold water – Not…
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Torei
‘”All people’s realisations and understandings are self and personality. And where the characteristics of self and…
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What I think about when I am thinking
In the Lotus Sutra we read that ‘Only a buddha together with a buddha can fathom…
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What I think about when I am thinking
‘All things are Buddhadharma’ (Genjo Koan) There are interconnected strains of thought running through my head,…
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Bicycle Roaming Zen
A high pressure system has settled over the city, and we have an unusual simultaneity of…
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Unconnected
A week ago Sunday, my laptop made a worrisome noise while I was reading, and a…
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Taking to the Mountains
There has been more rain since I have been back from England than I would have…
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Hui-Neng
‘The extent of mind is vast as space, without bounds. It has no squareness or roundness,…
Shundo David Haye - Zen Priest 