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  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘In the Japanese language, determination is composed of two ideographs that carry the respective meanings “to…

  • The Dhammapada

    ‘O let us live in joy, in love amongst those who hate! Among those who hate,…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘One thing that I have discerned from my practice is that all our different bodies are…

  • Dogen

    ‘When you see a speck of dust, it is not that you don’t see the world…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘I tell my disciples that should sit silently for ten years. There are several people here…

  • The Health Of The People Is The Highest Law

    On Tuesday night, what with the clock change and everything, I went to bed after Florida…

  • Doshin Mako Voelkel

    ‘There’s an image in Zen of the “board-carrying fellow.” You can imagine the visual. It’s like…

  • Brad Warner

    ‘In the Zen tradition they say there is no such thing as “spiritual growth” anyway. In…

  • Dogen

    ‘Suppose someone asks me, “How is it when a person of great enlightenment returns to delusion?”…

  • Eido Frances Carney

    ‘Coming to the realization of Buddha Mind, to Buddha Nature, is understanding once and for all,…