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  • Zazen Instruction

    While I was at the Gen X conference recently, I had a long chat with Zen…

  • Sylvia Boorstein

    ‘Becoming aware of the sudden feeling of anger is like having a thermometer in the mind.…

  • Charlotte Joko Beck

    ‘Anxiety is always a gap between the way things are and the way we think they…

  • David Michie

    ‘We continue to believe in the superstition of consumerism: the shared, misguided belief that the golden…

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘Abiding in this moment is the right-here-and now of our experience: it is enduring suchness. This…

  • Patacara

    ‘Patacara set out on her own, heavy with child, carrying her young son on her back.…

  • Names of Liberation

    My weekend at Wilbur was shorter than usual as I had an event to get to…

  • Pale Blue Skies

    In this year of mutable weather, I was not especially surprised that it was cooler during…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘If the bodhisattva realizes she or he could give up anything and everything because there is…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘”No place to fall” is the life of a home-leaver.’ (The Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo) Leafing…