This is why disease or tragedy, when they appear in someone’s life can — in a paradoxical and counterintuitive manner — turn out to be
This is why disease or tragedy, when they appear in someone’s life can — in a paradoxical and counterintuitive manner — turn out to be
A strange wind is blowing on humanity.A wind that’s coming from afar.Determined, this wind is howling for a reason.I could hear its omen in the
By endlessly quibbling over the details of the outer posture, don’t we trap ourselves in a suffocating deadend street ? We need to allow the
I am not this house
I am not this money.
You’re never alone when you sing a mantra.Even when there’s only one cushion in the dojo. Whenever you pronounce a mantra or recite the four
Identity is frothThose bubbles hypnotizeThe eyes of our being. They sparkle, fizzle,Agglutinate and burst. Wide, tranquil, emergency-freeThe heart-ocean does not change a thingTo its peaceful
Put the thoughts helmet downAnd see what life is likein its simplicity, intimacy, immediacy. Life is so close you can finally touch it.Life is so
I have never written any article, I barely watched articles writing themselves.I have never grabbed the pen because I had something to say.I merely held
I have smothered in the narrowness of your mindsI have despaired along your vacant aspirations. My heart has splintered through you indulgenceMy soul has crushed
There is so much anxiety in the process of getting old, like having mountains as only horizon. Reaching the Peak of the Thirties, as there
Meditation is a canyon-diving practice …
Your spiritual practice is the truthAnd so is everyone’s… …And yes, all religions claim to hold the truth. And they’re all right, on different levels
To rephrase Harada, in The Essence of Zen, it is the perception of things which creates things.This does not mean they had no existence prior
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The two main teachings Zen has revealed to me so far : -The quality of your experience is not defined by the nature of what