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  • Dana Velden

    ‘A kitchen chore will often tether us to a place: the sink, the chopping board, the…

  • Multimedia Extravaganza!

    Sometime last year I decided to send some money WordPress’ way so that I could host…

  • Joshu

    A monk asked, “What is the mind that the Patriarch brought from the west?” The master…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer…

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘A dharma position has a past, present, and future, but it is freed from being defined…

  • Mary Oliver

    I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how…

  • Atmospheric River

    I am not much of a one for harbouring end-of-times thoughts, unless I stop too long…

  • Chiang Wei-nung

    ‘Unfortunate suffering beings, the rich as well as the poor, spend their lives working for food…

  • Provided

    Recently I have found myself thinking a lot (again) about the passages in the Shobogenzo Zuimonki…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘In Buddhist history the word silence corresponds to right view: seeing impermanence, the truth that everything is…