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  • Joko Beck

    ‘More and more when I hear stories about the ancient monasteries, I wonder. They had a…

  • Finally

    After a few full and somewhat exhausting days, I woke up on Wednesday morning with a…

  • A Few Degrees

    There’s a very fine line – in temperature terms at least – between the relatively fine…

  • Twenty-Five Hundred Strong

    WordPress helpfully keeps a tally of how many posts you have published, and today marks 2500,…

  • New Vistas

    One of the great joys of travel, apart from getting to relax and take in new…

  • Last Legs

    The trip continued with a sense of familiar places and scenes that nevertheless feel fresh because…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘So, for your teacher, there is not much things to tell you, actually. As a mother…

  • Swimming In The Past

    Being in England is inevitably a return to my past, the one I left twenty-two years…

  • The Hottest Day On Record

    It’s fun to try to rewind in my mind what has happened since I last posted.…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘Constantly try to realize the depth of human life. Accept the fact that whatever you do,…