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Caoshan
‘A monk asked Caoshan, “How can one be in charge all the time?” Caoshan said, “Like…
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Sharon Salzberg
‘In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun. Love is a living capacity…
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Kosho Uchiyama
‘In my late twenties, when I read [Dogen’s] Jishozanmai, I decided to leave home and become…
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Dogen
‘It is kind speech to speak to sentient beings as you would to a baby…. If…
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Nyogen Senzaki
‘This mind is Buddha and no other, but one who clings to words and postulates an…
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Tianyi
‘A monk said, “I have just arrived here. I ask the master to expound the Dharma.”…
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Byakuren Judith Ragir
‘What needs to be renounced as we enter a spiritual path? In the West, Buddhist practice…
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Sitting in the rain
It say something about the climate in California that it took a little over five months for…
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Dogen
‘There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are…
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Shohaku Okumura
‘Each being is unique and yet is interconnected with all beings, from the beginningless beginning to…
