A Meditation on Impermanence, by Guy Zimmerman
Dharma
It’s not uncommon for me to complete the sequence of meditations and discover I have left one out – it is always the death meditation. While I know I will
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Thoughts about Practice: Finding the Dharma
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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Progress / Regress
…this Way is a path: every moment is a path. One of the marvels of the Zen way is that you can actually never regress on the path. You can’t
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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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Case 7 Book of Equanimity. Master Yakusan Ascends the Rostrum, Part 1 of 2
Episode Description: In this teisho, Henry helps us on our journey of letting go of ourselves by introducing us to great Master Yakusan’s “speciality.” Henry explores the true path of Zen
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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 3 of 3
It is about undergoing a conversion of heart, so our whole life is seen from the perspective of mountains, rivers, and the great wide earth Read Listening to the Voices
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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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