Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 1 of 3
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“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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Tree of Wisdom
Oak and maple, palm and pine—trees are our closest neighbors and most patient teachers… on the common roots of people and trees. There is a cabin in the remote mountains
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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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Enter…the Bodhisattva, Part 2 of 2
Is there something specific within the Buddhist tradition that can bring these two types of transformation together in a new model of activism connecting inner and outer practice? Enter…the bodhisattva.
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Enter…the Bodhisattva, Part 1 of 2
…when we do not acknowledge the importance of individual transformation, social transformation is repeatedly subverted by powerful elites taking selfish advantage of their position. David Loy on why the bodhisattva
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Toward a New Buddhist Story: Part 3 of 3
We who have language assume we are superior to animals. In fact, our linguistic representations of the world are superior to the world itself, since they can control it. Ironically,
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Toward a New Buddhist Story: Part 2 of 3
What is called for now is not people seeking to transcend this world but people who take responsibility for its well-being. Click to Read A New Buddhist Story: Part 1
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Toward A New Buddhist Story: Part 1 of 3
Is a new Buddhist story beginning to develop out of the interaction between Buddhism and the modern world? Both need such a new story. It’s not only a matter of
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The Unfamiliar Familiar: Part 5 of 6
…we surely know that to be alive among things is a gift; yet it’s a gift we so often fail to unwrap. Click here to read the Unfamiliar Familiar Part
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Karma: Fate or Freedom
Yet karma is not something the self has; rather, it is what the sense of self is, because one’s sense of self is transformed by one’s conscious choices. Many Buddhist
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The Unfamiliar Familiar: Part 4 of 6
The scriptures do not merely speak about the deconstruction of preconception; they enact it. Click to read The Unfamiliar Familiar Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. In the early
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The Unfamiliar Familiar: Part 3 of 6
This kind of disbanding of an assumption—whether of something as fundamental as our sense of self, or merely of a preconception about a classical poet—can bring about a radical new
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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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