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  • Dana Velden

    ‘To cook a meal for someone is to give them many gifts: the gift of your…

  • What If?

    Another week, another thought provoking New Yorker article.  I have written about virtual reality before, perhaps…

  • Diane Eshin Rizzetto

    ‘The value of working with this precept [the precept of not intoxicating, but cultivating a clear…

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘We might observe that the stages of so-called sequential time are not actually available to us.…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘ “Therefore, water is in places that are not rivers and seas; it is just that,…

  • Effortless Effort

    Much as I love reading the New Yorker for learning about new things, intellectual stimulation, and…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Seeing all things wisely, as “empty” of their “own-being,” the bodhisattva begins to live differently in…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘There are many forms of practice that may look like Zen practice, but the practice of…

  • The Holy Hallway

    Today is the day when Zen Center commemorates the death of Suzuki Roshi, forty-eight years ago…

  • Diane Eshin Rizzetto

    ‘We’re all so skilled at discerning how we’re different, but we don’t know enough yet about…