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  • Enkyo O’Hara

    ‘There’s a fantasy about Buddhism that everything will be perfect and I’ll be “all one,” plus…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘Dharma means “truth” or “law.” I usually define it as the true essence of phenomenal reality.…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Cultivating trust, we acknowledge and address our lack of control, all the ways in which our…

  • Today

    This post first appeared on my Patreon page: I apologise if I have shared this story…

  • Coming Attractions

    Happily, I am starting 2021 with three new (or newish) dharma offerings, and I hope that…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘The life we live is not necessarily what we have studied or discussed. This conceptual, knowledge-based…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘One of my teachers taught me to practice generosity by taking an object in my left…

  • Enkyo O’Hara

    ‘I never really thought that if I practice Zen I would somehow be perfect. You know,…

  • Midwinter

    When I type the word midwinter, I think of scenes of old England, cold, dark and…

  • Rebecca Solnit

    ‘The measure of our humanity is our ability to care for people unlike us, who are…