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  • Mountains and Waters Sutras

    When I lived at Zen Center, I would eat lunch out in the courtyard every day…

  • Boxes

    My sister and her husband have been doing sterling work – she being the only sibling…

  • Reaching For Resolution

    ‘As a professor, I detect a similar hope in the students who take my feminism classes,…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘My teacher Gudo Nishijima Roshi wrote a book called Understanding The Shobogenzo. Shobogenzo is a famous…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Soto way is to use everything in right purpose and to put everything [in] its own–…

  • A Day In The Life

    September started off on the right foot in San Francisco, with a warm and sunny holiday…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Your everyday life is also the expression of the inmost nature, but our everyday life is…

  • Vows

    Back when I first started writing the Ino’s Blog, I was quite fascinated to see how…

  • Baizhang

    ‘Baizhang said, “I want someone to go and tell something to Xitang.” Wufeng said, “I’ll go.”…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘Rarely do we reside in no place. We think about what day of the week this;…