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  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘The most important point is for us to exist in right place in right way. If…

  • Fayan

    ‘There is a story that in former times a Zen monk lived alone in a cottage.…

  • The Wind Blows Through The Empty Valley

    Last week was by and large mercifully fog free in San Francisco, warm and with clear…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘From an authentic Buddhist point of view, it matters little whether something can be identified as…

  • Cuiyan

    ‘A monk asked, “There are words and phrases everywhere and all of it is polluted. What…

  • To the Top of the City

    Coming into this weekend, I felt like I had a lot of time and space –…

  • Chan Master Sheng Yen

    ‘The Sanskrit word for fundamental ignorance, avidya, means ‘not-clear.’ What we are unclear about is the…

  • Lou Hartman

    ‘You can’t stop your mind – I think we have all realised that. But you can…

  • A Blast Of Summer Weather

    My habit has been to schedule Roaming Zen alternately on Saturdays and Sundays, as some of…

  • The Morning Schedule

    In the end, I woke up very early on Saturday morning, bothered by back pain, so…