Zen for Troubled Times
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear, and you will realize the unity of
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Teisho: Henry Explores Reincarnation
“If you think such a theory (that there is a soul that exits the body at death and re-enters another upon birth) constitutes the Buddha’s teaching, you are even more
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Teisho: Continuation Case 50, Book of Equanimity, Seppo’s What Is This?
“If we could all just reside in our real self, we would be infinite.” “They are so imponderable, that you cannot ponder them. So what do you do? You sit,
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The Earth as Witness: International Dharma Teachers’ Statement on Climate Change, by David R Loy
…craving, aversion, and delusion are also the root causes of climate change. Climate change is perhaps humanity’s greatest teacher yet about how these mental forces, when unchecked in ourselves and
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The Bodhisattva Path in the Trump Era, by David Loy, Part 2 of 2
…our task is to do the very best that we can, not knowing if anything we do is going to make any difference whatsoever. Click here to read Part 1.
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The Bodhisattva Path in the Trump Era, by David Loy, Part 1 of 2
So how much has the election of Donald Trump shaken us up, and maybe, in the process, is it waking us up in a way that the election of Hillary
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Awakening: The Enemy of the People? Part 3 of 3
Dogen said: “ordinary beings have no awakening in their consciousness; buddhas have no consciousness in their awakening.” Click to read Part 1 and Part 2 Picking up on the
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A Bird Flies High
A bird flies high in the sky Where there is nowhere to go. What remains? Just this flying! Dogen wrote on this subject: Birds fly the skies, and however much
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Teisho: Why are we Here?
“… Zen is not so much a teaching methodology as a learning methodology …” Description: The second talk from the October Introductory Sesshin argues that Zen is not so much
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Teisho: Three Treasures and Three Fruits
Description: This first talk from the October Introductory Sesshin explores some basic underpinnings of Zen practice, introducing the Three Treasures – Buddha, Dharma, Sangha – and describing how they naturally lead
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