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  • Summer Times

    The fog switch has been flipping on and off again – after the previous weekend, we…

  • Kathryn Schulz

    ‘Patience did not achieve its status as a virtue because our greatest moral thinkers held in…

  • J.C. Cleary

    ‘From our point of view at the time, our mental state as teenagers in the 1960s,…

  • Teijo Munnich

    ‘In order to awaken to the truth of life and reality, we first have to become…

  • Blue Skies

    Like a switch being flipped, the fog burned off on Thursday, and the skies cleared. Friday…

  • Sensei Alex Kakuyo

    ‘A rough translation of ‘intoku’ is, “good done in secret”.  It epitomizes the Buddhist ideal that we should…

  • Soft Attention

    Someone who has been attending perhaps my favourite ongoing corporate meditation group forwarded me an article…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘When we sit we call it inmost — let inmost nature in its self, or activity…

  • San Francisco Life

    We read the stories about record-breaking heatwaves, and they are certainly not happening here. This past…

  • Eugene Bush

    ‘How exactly do I know what is wholesome, harmless & balanced? The practice of zazen itself…