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Healing Ecology: Discovering Our Collective Place in the World, by David R Loy, Part 2 of 3

For Buddhism the only true solution lies in realizing our nonduality with “others” and understanding that our own well-being cannot be distinguished from their well-being. Click to read Part 1 of

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Healing Ecology: Discovering Our Collective Place in the World, by David R Loy, Part 1 of 3

In the article below, Buddhist scholar David Loy explores the parallels between our individual and collective journey to understand who and what we are, the traps that we fall into

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Flowers Fall, from Genjokoan

When all things are the Buddha Dharma, there is illusion and enlightenment, practice, birth death, Buddhas and sentient beings. When all things are without self, there is no illusion or enlightenment,

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Teisho: Yamada Ryoun Roshi: Joshu’s Dog (Part 1 of 4)

Description: Yamada Ryoun Roshi, Abbot of the Sanbo Zen lineage from Kamakura, Japan, gives his first teisho of the North American Sanbo Zen (NASZ) sesshin for 2016, on Joshu’s Dog. In

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Message from Henry: The Executioner

… you’re lucky enough to have a teacher or guide, a kind of executioner, who can kindly fan the flames for you.. The self-declared “awakened masters” without masters of their

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Teisho: Bodhidharma’s Zen Part 2 of 2

Description: Henry continues his exploration of Bodhidharma’s core teaching, Outline of Practice, the Two Gates. He opens the teisho with an inspiring quote from the novel Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams

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Interview by Sweeping Zen with David Loy, Part 1

Yes, all form is empty, but emptiness is always taking form. Sweeping Zen: This question gets asked a lot, but, how did you first get started with Zen practice? David

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Message from Henry: Practice is a Mirror

That’s practice: an empty mirror… like a mirror it simply reflects what comes in front of it. The zendo in Sonnenhof Zen Center in Germany is called “Empty Mirror Zendo.” That’s

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Teisho: Book of Equanimity Case 21, Ungan Sweeps the Ground

Description: Case 21, Book of Equanimity: Ungan Sweeps the Ground When Ungan was sweeping the ground, Dôgo said, “You are working hard, aren’t you.” Ungan said, “You should know there is one

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Message from Henry: Let it Burn

Do your practice. Whatever it takes, learn to sit in the fire of the Three Treasures. Pick and choose no more. Whole Ox Zen. Let it burn. Last week I

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The Zen Oxherding Pictures: Overview, by Ruben Habito

We look at the ten oxherding pictures as a mirror that can tell us where we are in our practice. “The Ten Oxherding Pictures” is a set of ten calligraphic

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Teisho: Case 28, Book of Equanimity: Gokoku’s “Three Disgraces” Part 1 of 2

“This whole being called me is just a hole.” Description: Case 28: Book of Equanimity: Gokoku’s “Three Disgraces” Part 1 of 2 A monk asked Gokoku, “How about when a crane

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Message from Henry: Thoughts

If the mind can get it, it’s not the “unborn.” So what is it? “Empty your thoughts,” says Daio Kokushi. This could be taken two ways: Have quiet meditation periods,

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Ten thousand miles – No clouds, Ten thousand miles – Sky

“萬⾥無雲万里天 Banri Kumo Nashi, Banri no Ten”. This is the second line of a couplet which follows the first one… “千江有水千江月 Senko Ni Mizu Ari Senko No Tsuki”.

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