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  • An Empty House

    On Saturday morning I waved goodbye to Caitlin and Collin, the elderly dog, as she headed…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Bodhisattvas know that the conventional self, the ego self, isn’t the whole story or necessarily the…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘The teachings can only describe or explain what Truth is by referring to its attributes or…

  • Trust

    ‘“One could tell the story of human civilization as a story of how we learned to…

  • Transitions

    For many years, I have thought of September as more of a month of transition than…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘We use the terms universal effort and individual effort, but actually there is no gap between…

  • Summer Times

    The fog switch has been flipping on and off again – after the previous weekend, we…

  • J.C. Cleary

    ‘From our point of view at the time, our mental state as teenagers in the 1960s,…

  • Teijo Munnich

    ‘In order to awaken to the truth of life and reality, we first have to become…

  • Blue Skies

    Like a switch being flipped, the fog burned off on Thursday, and the skies cleared. Friday…