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  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘I am now sowing some inconspicuous Dharma seeds, and I will likewise end my life in…

  • Alison Gopnik

    ‘I think that kind of open-ended meditation and the kind of consciousness that it goes with…

  • A Second Blossoming

    A typhoon came across the Pacific in our direction last week. We had some grey and…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘People may think Zen is a wonderful teaching, you know. “If you study Zen, you will…

  • The Great Matter

    To say last week was quite a week would be the kind of English understatement that…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘Once you’ve been taught a good posture, you feel gratitude and spontaneously do gassho. You feel…

  • Dogen

    It seems that the mountain spring wind Has begun to blow – On the peaks and…

  • Hongzhi

    ‘People of the way journey through the world responding to conditions, carefree and without restraint. Like…

  • Dogen

    ‘What I previously saw of words and phrases is one, two, three, four, five. Today what…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘The central most important quality of practice is that we do it bravely, without wavering. We…