Thoughts about Practice: Finding the Dharma
Dogen
If you want to hear the Dharma, just listen: it is always being spoken with perfect precision… It is all the sounds we can hear. If you want to see
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Mountains and Waters
Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. Because mountains and waters have been active since before
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Thoughts about Practice: Non-abiding
…thoughts are not unimportant, but they’re not so important; feelings are not unimportant, but they’re not so important. -Dogen Our minds ordinarily are always “going somewhere”, aiming for something then
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How does an Awakened Person Perceive the World, Part 4 of 4
I came to realize clearly that mind is nothing other than rivers and mountains and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. -Dogen Click to
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Think Not-thinking
Episode Description: Henry shares some thoughts on Yakusan’s famous dialogue on meditation. A monk asks, “What do you think about when you meditate?” Yakusan answers, “Think not-thinking.” Henry relates this to
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Mountains and Oceans
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right
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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 2 of 3
How may I live my life realizing that the wounded world is my own true self, I am that, crying out in pain? Click to read Listening to the Voices
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The Ecological Crisis: Can Buddhism Help? Reflection by David Loy
“We are here to overcome the illusion of our separation.” — Thich Nhat Hanh “I came to realize Weed seed puff clearly that mind is nothing other than mountains
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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 1 of 3
“I came to realize clearly that the mind is not other than mountains, rivers, the great wide earth, sun, moon, stars”. -Dogen This is a passage from thirteenth century Zen
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Sanbo (Three Treasures) Zen: Part 3 of 3
Joan Rieck presented this piece at an international conference held at Tiantong Monastery in China in the Fall of 2014 – the very temple where Dogen had his great enlightenment
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