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  • Suzuki Roshi

    ”When you dip a water by this cup, you know, and when you say, “this is…

  • Dogen

    ‘On this night the Tathagata completed true awakening. With effort and dropping away body and mind,…

  • The Dharma Seat

    Since the end of the summer, I have not been doing so many formal activities, though…

  • The Thinking Mind

    When I lived at Tassajara, and we got up ridiculously early in the morning to sit…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘”Emptiness,” the connectedness of all things, deepens everything by disclosing the complex foundations upon which all…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘While we are sitting in zazen, we definitely have a feeling of disappointment and unsatisfactoriness, a…

  • Sister Elizabeth Wagner

    ‘When we’re alone, all the fears and worries and anxieties come up, because we can’t distract…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘As far as I’m concerned if someone wants to call themselves a “Zen Buddhist” I will…

  • Thankful

    Even after twenty years, I still don’t do Thanksgiving like those who were born here (it…

  • Dogen

    ‘An old buddha [Hongzhi] said, “Reach over to grasp what’s there, and bring its workings right…