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Message from Henry: A Little Reflection on Zen History

Dogen said, “Practice is enlightenment; enlightenment is practice.” Tahui said: “There never was any delusion, nor any realization.” These statements are completely clear, yet we shouldn’t mistake what they mean.

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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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The Dharma

Once there is even a small hole, the Dharma can start to seep through. At first it’s not evident to us. We can conceive of it intellectually—it’s the Buddha’s teaching,

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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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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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Spring Sesshin Part 1 of 2, Mu Koan

Episode Description: This talk, the first during our spring sesshin, introduces the Koan Mu and addresses the challenges that arise during a first sesshin. Henry compares zen practice to musical instrument

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Don’t Go There: Part 3 of 3

But as hardness melted in the dharma of the sesshin, it became clear that forgiveness was a larger force than any one of us, and that as long as I

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Don’t Go There: Part 2 of 3

It began to seem to me that a friendship, an intimate relationship, had been ruined, destroyed perhaps forever, by a frenzy of madness, a ruthless orgy of industrialized murder. Was

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Don’t Go There: Part 1of 3

As a Jew and a Briton, Henry Shukman had avoided all things German. As a Buddhist, he knew he had to say yes when his teacher asked him to teach at

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The Dharma of Alienation: Part 2 of 2

In response to the delusion of separation and alienation, Buddhist teachings emphasize interconnectedness. Overcoming Alienation All the above (click to read Dharma of Alienation Part 1) is an effort to

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The Dharma of Alienation: Part 1 of 2

New media technologies sometimes encourage a kind of “hyper-individualism” because we spend less and less time meeting and interacting with other people – often not even with members of our

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