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  • Caoshan

    ‘A monk asked Caoshan, “How can one be in charge all the time?” Caoshan said, “Like…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘In reality,  love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun. Love is a living capacity…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘In my late twenties, when I read [Dogen’s] Jishozanmai, I decided to leave home and become…

  • Dogen

    ‘It is kind speech to speak to sentient beings as you would to a baby…. If…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘This mind is Buddha and no other, but one who clings to words and postulates an…

  • Tianyi

    ‘A monk said, “I have just arrived here. I ask the master to expound the Dharma.”…

  • Byakuren Judith Ragir

    ‘What needs to be renounced as we enter a spiritual path? In the West, Buddhist practice…

  • Sitting in the rain

    It say something about the climate in California that it took a little over five months for…

  • Dogen

    ‘There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Each being is unique and yet is interconnected with all beings, from the beginningless beginning to…