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2018-12-31
Getting Real: A Zen Meditation on a Passage from the Velveteen Rabbit
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2018-12-30
The Day They Killed Rasputin
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2018-12-29
What's Love Got To Do With It? The Most Important Thing About Hakuin's Teaching
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2018-12-28
Thinking of Cold Mountain
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2018-12-26
Boxes: A Small Meditation
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2018-12-25
A Zen Priest Goes to Midnight Mass
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2018-12-22
Turning Toward the Wound: a Zen Buddhist Advent Meditation
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2018-12-22
Gutei's Finger: Nyogen Senzaki's Zen Commentary on Case 3 of the Gateless Gate
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2018-12-19
Maezumi Roshi on Zen's Gassho & Bowing Practice
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2018-12-18
The Zen Koan of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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2018-12-17
God, an Ox, and Its Tail: Reflecting on a Zen Koan
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2018-12-15
Raging Against the Night: A Zen Meditation
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2018-12-14
A Small Zen Meditation on Reaching Out to the Stars & Touching the Face of God
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2018-12-13
Buddhists Need to Make More Room for Understanding Anger
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2018-12-12
Enter Our Lady
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2018-12-12
On "feudalism" in Tibet and Chinese use of the scholarship of Melvyn Goldstein
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2018-12-11
Empty Moon Zen's First Rohatsu
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2018-12-10
Walking the Path of Not Knowing: Reflecting on Thomas Merton, a Saint for Our Times
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2018-12-08
Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - a (Zen) Buddhist day of Practice
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2018-12-08
Bodhi Day
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2018-12-08
Bodhi Day
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2018-12-05
Heroes of Progressive Buddhism: Sebene Selassie
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2018-12-04
Reflecting (Again) on Zen, Buddhism, Perennialism & Universalism
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2018-12-03
Putting Pants on Philip
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2018-12-03
Thinking of Camelot
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2018-12-02
Footnotes on Zen in the West: The First Issue of Wind Bell is Published
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2018-12-01
Thinking of Rex Stout & Nero Wolfe
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2018-11-29
Celebrating a Christian Universalist & Another Who Came Pretty Close
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2018-11-29
Mind Bubble on Christian Universalism, Together With a Passing Reference to a Beloved Zen Buddhist Text
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2018-11-27
The oldest datable depiction of the Buddha in Human Form, from the British Museum
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2018-11-26
The Zen Teacher Hustle and Social Media
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2018-11-26
David Loy, Nonduality, Zen, and the Mystery of our Lives
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2018-11-25
Entering Into Silence: A Zen Koan
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2018-11-24
A Zen Master Considers Buddhism & Poverty
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2018-11-23
Zen's Oldest Text: Three Versions of Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances & Four Practices
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2018-11-23
Zen in Bhutan: An Invitation to a Small Adventure
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2018-11-22
Our Broken Song: A Thanksgiving Meditation on the Koan of our Lives
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2018-11-21
Crazy Cloud Dies
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2018-11-18
Noting the Day Mr Twain Told Us About that Frog
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2018-11-17
Thinking About Soto Zen in Long Beach (and the OC) & What It Can Mean for Zen Coming West
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2018-11-16
Netizen Nastiness: Can there Be Compassionate Social Media Use in the age of Trump?
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2018-11-15
Telling Stories, Finding New Worlds: Gateless Gate, Case 46
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2018-11-15
Buddhist economics in action: Bhutan
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2018-11-12
Recalling James Luther Adams, Liberal Religion, & Liberal Christianity
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2018-11-11
Come Closer: A Few Words to a Zen Priest Being Installed as a Unitarian Universalist Minister
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2018-11-09
The Reverend Mr Ford's Day in Court: Juror Number Four's Tale of Theory & Practice
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2018-11-08
She Might Be a Saint: Recalling Dorothy Day And Her Way of Nonviolence, Voluntary Poverty, Prayer, and Radical Hospitality
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2018-11-07
The Great Way is Gateless....
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2018-11-07
The Great Way is Gateless....
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2018-11-04
Recalling Zen Master Bernie Glassman, Founder of the Zen Peacemakers
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2018-11-03
A Word to the Wise: The Zen Arts of Letting Go of Our Stories
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2018-11-03
Julian Takes the Throne: Marking One of Those Great What If Moments in History
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2018-11-02
A 2-year-old solves the trolley problem (and a note on Buddhist ethics)
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2018-11-01
Not One, Not Two: My Personal Experience as an Example of East Meeting West and the Birthing of a New Zen Buddhism
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2018-11-01
When Teenage Missionaries Came to My Door
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2018-11-01
When Teenage Missionaries Came to My Door
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2018-10-30
Rohatsu Sesshin: An Intensive Zen Meditation Retreat with James Ishmael Ford
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2018-10-29
Being Black & Buddhist in America: A Panel Discussion
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2018-10-28
Zen Teacher Domyo Burk addresses Western Zen as it Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race
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2018-10-27
October 27, The Festival of Cutting a Deal With the Devil
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2018-10-26
One Never Knows: A Zen Priest's Meditation on Not Believing Everything You Think
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2018-10-26
Remembering Ida B Wells: American Hero
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2018-10-25
Recalling the Great Nestorius, Saint & Heresiarch; Together With a Reflection on a Dream Time and Ever Possible Christianity
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2018-10-24
Recalling the Great, the Wondrous Alexandra David-Neel
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2018-10-23
Happy Birthday, World!
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2018-10-22
Happy Birthday to the Oriental Orthodox
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2018-10-21
Zen Master Hakuin on the Four Ways of Knowing
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2018-10-20
The Gate Appears & a New Religion is Proclaimed
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2018-10-19
Zen Priest & Scholar Victor Sogen Hori Tells us a Little of What the Zen Koan is Not & a Bit More on What it Is
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2018-10-19
Bodhidharma's Adventure
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2018-10-19
Bodhidharma's Adventure
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2018-10-18
Enter Babbage (And Lovelace) And the Incredible Analytical Engine
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2018-10-17
The One Sermon: A Reflection on the Zen Life
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2018-10-16
That Other Story About Iron Grindstone Liú
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2018-10-16
Layman Pang's Beautiful Snowflakes: Blue Cliff Record, Case 42
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2018-10-15
Five Approaches to Zen, Fingers Pointing to the Moon
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2018-10-14
Sensei Mary Gates, the New Zen Teacher in Town
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2018-10-11
Living in the Great Buzz: Some Near Random Thoughts on Zen, Buddhism, Nondual Christianity, Decentering one's Ego, And Finding a Life
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2018-10-10
Meditation Gatherings
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2018-10-10
Meditation Gatherings
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2018-10-09
A Few Words from the Catholic Monk Who Translates a Daoist Sage and Points us to the Zen Way
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2018-10-08
Zen at the Edges of Tinseltown
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2018-10-05
Putting Your Mind at Rest: Reflecting on Bodhidharma & the Foundations of the Zen Way
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2018-10-05
The Goal is Ordinary
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2018-10-05
The Goal is Ordinary
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2018-10-04
Francis & a Canticle for Creation
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2018-10-02
The Truth of the Self Through the Generations of Our Lineage
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2018-10-02
Great Soul: The Smallest of Reflections on Mohandas Gandhi on his One Hundred & Forty-Ninth Birthday
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2018-10-02
6 Reasons for the creation of Himalayan art, only one is "devotional"
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2018-10-01
The Wondrous Annie Besant is Born
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2018-09-30
Rumi is Born & the Angels Sing
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2018-09-29
A Zen Priest Dreams of Angels
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2018-09-28
Confucius is Born
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2018-09-28
Watching the Kavanaugh hearings from a Dharmic perspective: two Buddhist women speak
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2018-09-26
Zen is Political: So, What is a Person Going to Do About it? Six Suggestions.
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2018-09-26
Resources for learning Pali : a key language for early Buddhism and the Theravadin Tradition
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2018-09-25
Zen Poet Gary Snyder Sings For All
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2018-09-24
A North American Zen Priest Confesses a Faith
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2018-09-21
The Story of Hongzhi
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2018-09-21
The Story of Hongzhi
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2018-09-20
Peace Through a Cup of Tea: Genshitsu Sen, Zen, and the Way of Tea
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2018-09-20
The psychedelic drug debate: why Buddhist ethics matters
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2018-09-18
I believe Christine Blasey Ford.
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2018-09-18
A Western Zen Master Explains the Zen Koan in Two Hundred & Eighty-Three Words
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2018-09-17
Zen, Hallucinations, and, oh, yes, Hildegard of Bingen
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2018-09-16
Thinking of Karen Horney and Western Psychology's Discovery of Zen Buddhism
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2018-09-15
Call me Roshi: A Small Meditation on Zen Titles in the West
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2018-09-14
To Save the World: A Few Words for a Friend Who is About to Ordain as a Zen Priest
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2018-09-13
The Things I Do
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2018-09-13
The Things I Do
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2018-09-11
Our Quest for Meaning: A Pointer from the 105th Floor of the World Trade Center.
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2018-09-11
#MeTooGuru group, survivors of abusive Buddhist teachers, would like to meet Dalai Lama in Europe (petition)
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2018-09-10
Hakuin Flies A Kite
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2018-09-10
China, Buddhism, and the new era of Globalization
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2018-09-09
Happy birthday, California!
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2018-09-08
Zen Come West, Gifts & Challenges & a Big Question
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2018-09-06
Recalling American Zen Pioneer Roshi Issan Dorsey
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2018-09-06
Buddhist economics: further resources
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2018-09-05
Zen Manga: A Selection of Comic Book Zen
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2018-09-04
The Bishop Was a Pacifist: Recalling Paul Jones, Bishop to the Universe
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2018-09-03
A Philosophy of Labor: Seeing the Unseen Forces in our Work Lives
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2018-09-03
The Last Word: A Zen Meditation
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2018-09-01
Thomas Merton Wakes Up: A Zen Priest Ruminates on one of his Christian Teachers
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2018-09-01
Two Documentaries examine the sexual abuse in the Tibetan Buddhist group, Rigpa
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2018-09-01
Talking Zen: Eighteen Podcasts by People Who Actually Know About What They Speak
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2018-08-31
A Zen Priest Ruminates on the Mysteries of Not Knowing
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2018-08-27
Telling Beads: The Forms and Functions of the Buddhist Rosary in Japan
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2018-08-27
The Dalai Lama offers a tribute to Senator John McCain
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2018-08-26
A Zen Priest Plays Within This Moment
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2018-08-25
Thinking of T S Eliot & His Religions
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2018-08-25
Thomas Merton's Quotations from Chuang Tzu
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2018-08-23
True Sitting & the Fundamental Koan: A Discussion with Shin'ichi Hisamatsu
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2018-08-23
Shambhala Faces Most Damning Revelations to Date: Buddhist Project Sunshine Phase 3 Report
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2018-08-22
Once a Thief: A Zen Priest Tells a Story
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2018-08-22
Edicts of Asoka
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2018-08-22
A Teaching Philosophy as Revolutionary Manifesto
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2018-08-21
Five Unique Features of Zen in the West
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2018-08-20
Enter H P Lovecraft
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2018-08-20
Life is Messy. Or, When the Philosopher is a General
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2018-08-19
A Small Meditation on Zen in North America After the Great Die Off of Boomer Practitioners
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2018-08-18
Dave O'Neal's Poem Review of Introduction to Zen Koans
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2018-08-17
A Few Brief Thoughts on Liturgy in North American Soto Zen
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2018-08-15
Recalling Keizan Jokin, Japanese Soto Zen's Second Founder
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2018-08-15
Why can't people just leave Shambhala Buddhism?
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2018-08-14
Saints for Our Times: Thinking of Jonathan & Ruby
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2018-08-11
Being Bodies: Reflecting on the Song of Mehitabel as a Zen Text
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2018-08-10
A Zen Priest Talks to Some Unitarian Universalists About a Naturalistic Mysticism
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2018-08-10
The Rotting Corpses of Our Ancestors
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2018-08-09
Stop that War on the other side of the River: A Zen Reflection on War & Peace
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2018-08-09
Hardship and Pleasure
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2018-08-07
Telling Stories: A Zen Priest Reflects on a Fairy Tale by A. S. Byatt
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2018-08-06
David Foster Wallace, Irony, and American Buddhism today
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2018-08-06
A Zen Teacher Suggests Three Points for an Authentic Spiritual Life
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2018-08-05
Mr Kapleau Wakes Up: Celebrating Zen Master Philip Kapleau's Initial Kensho Experience
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2018-08-02
On Finding a (Zen) Teacher
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2018-08-01
The Buddha on Friendship & the Spiritual Life
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2018-07-30
Happy Birthday, Baghdad!
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2018-07-28
What is Ganhwa Seon? Koans & Hwadu Within Korean Zen
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2018-07-28
Calling Out to Hungry Hearts: Thinking About Starting a Zen Center
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2018-07-27
A Zen Retreat With James Ishmael Ford
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2018-07-26
Metta: An Introduction to Loving Kindness
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2018-07-26
Stealing Our Attention
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2018-07-25
A Zen Priest Suggests Three Rules of Thumb for an Authentic Spiritual Life
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2018-07-24
Like Trees Planted Near Flowing Waters: Buddhism, Humanism, and the Promise of Hope for this World
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2018-07-22
Thinking of a Christianity Without Paul
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2018-07-22
Toward a Humanist Ethic: The Ten Non-Commandments
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2018-07-21
The Mountains Are Calling & I Must Go: A Sampler of John Muir's Mystical Teachings
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2018-07-21
The Three Jewels of Buddhism and Multi-faith Affiliations
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2018-07-20
Gary Snyder's "Buddhism & the Coming Revolution" Notes from the Dawn of Engaged Buddhism
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2018-07-19
The Baggage We Carry
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2018-07-19
Faith of the Heart Mind: 20 English Translations of the Xinxin Ming
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2018-07-18
Fingers Pointing to the Moon: A Small Reflection on Zen Buddhism, Zen Christians, and Christian Nonduality
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2018-07-14
Two Cheers for Democracy: A Small Reflection on Bastille Day
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2018-07-12
Eighteen Books: Essential Reading in Soto Zen Buddhism
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2018-07-12
Enter D. T. Suzuki: Zen's First Serious English Language Interpreter
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2018-07-12
The Hard Way
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2018-07-11
The Zen Teachings of Jiun Sonja
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2018-07-10
A Little Zen Wisdom About the Stories that Haunt Our Lives
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2018-07-09
Sometimes It Takes a Community to Write a Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind & Trudy Dixon
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2018-07-07
Has the West Produced Any Zen Classics? Beginning a List
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2018-07-07
Essential Dōgen and Hakuin Texts: Response to a Quick Question
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2018-07-07
A Feast for Hugo: Recalling Zen Teacher & Catholic Priest Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle
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2018-07-06
Zen Training 101: with the help of an art studio manual
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2018-07-06
John & Paul Meet
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2018-07-05
Dancing: A Zen Priest Plays A Little With Buddhist Cosmology
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2018-07-04
Toward a Declaration of Interdependence: A Buddhist Contribution
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2018-07-03
Zen Master Zengetsu's Pointers on a Life Worth Living
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2018-07-02
Blue Cliff Zen Retreat at Pine Mountain
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2018-06-28
Those Who Listen to Our Advice
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2018-06-27
Key Terms of Soto Zen Teaching
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2018-06-27
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship Turns 40
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2018-06-26
Remember the Rohingyas
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2018-06-26
The Shushogi: A Summary of Zen Master Dogen's Teachings
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2018-06-25
Recalling the Discovery of the Buddhist "Dead Sea Scrolls"
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2018-06-23
The Secrets of Interdependence: Or, Confessing a Universalist Zen Buddhism
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2018-06-22
And Shunryu Suzuki Arrives
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2018-06-21
Ethics of Shame (and Shamelessness): Buddhist and Western
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2018-06-20
Knowing Harm, We Must Oppose It
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2018-06-19
Zen Priest Gaelyn Godwin on Why a Zen Priest Stands Against Tearing Immigrant Families Apart as Public Policy
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2018-06-19
Happy Birthday to the Christian Church! Just the Tiniest of History Lessons
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2018-06-18
Buddhist Statement Against Detaining Immigrant Children
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2018-06-18
Like Salad With Nasturtium Petals: The Delicious Way of Zen Master Yunmen
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2018-06-18
A Buddhist Statement on the Separation of Families
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2018-06-16
The Language of Dragons: Introduction to Zen Koans
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2018-06-15
Practical Mysticism: A Zen Priest Rapsodizes About Evelyn Underhill
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2018-06-14
Memorializing a Buddhist Blog List
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2018-06-14
The Zen of Yasunarti Kawabata
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2018-06-14
Be An Example
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2018-06-13
"I Am Certain of Nothing" A Small Reflection on the "Zen" Wisdom of Anthony Bourdain
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2018-06-10
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Smallest of Zen Reflection on the Original Koan
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2018-06-09
The Spiral Dance of Zen Practice, Awakening, and Ordinary Life
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2018-06-08
Compassion on the Edge
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2018-06-07
Kyogen Carlson Roshi, "Notes on Zazen Practice"
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2018-06-06
A Buddhist (re)Appropriation of Mindfulness Meditation
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2018-06-05
Learning the Language of Dragons: An Introduction to Zen Meditation & Especially to Koans
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2018-06-04
Come Home, Come Home: All is Forgiven: A Zen Meditation on Zen Meditation
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2018-06-02
Voice of the Raindrops: A Zen Koan
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2018-06-01
Deep in Poop: Reflections on a Zen Koan
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2018-05-31
Ever Increasing Appetites
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2018-05-31
Is a Sea Change Coming to Western Buddhism?
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2018-05-30
The Secret is In the Open: Shambhala Sexual Abuse Discussed on CBC Radio
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2018-05-30
Zen Buddhism: The Kind of Religion
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2018-05-29
(Zen) Buddhists & the Unitarian (Universalist) Encounter
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2018-05-28
I Find Myself Asked What of Zen is Worth Preserving?
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2018-05-26
Thank You, Mr Stoker! A Small Meditation on the Vampire
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2018-05-25
A Brief Zen Buddhist Catechism: A First Draft
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2018-05-24
A Flash of Lightning in a Summer Cloud: A Zen Reflection on Passingness
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2018-05-23
Four Essential & Brief Zen Meditation Manuals
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2018-05-22
Today is Harvey Milk Day
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2018-05-22
Zhanglu Zongze's Guidelines for Seated Meditation
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2018-05-21
On Praying for the Dead: Zen and the Mysteries of Dedicating Merit
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2018-05-20
Behold the Spirit: A Meditation on Alan Watts & His Brief Experiment With a Mystical Christianity
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2018-05-19
A Zen Priest Ruminates for a Moment on Psychedelics & Other Special Experiences
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2018-05-18
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
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2018-05-18
Batata Harra: Or, When the Humble Spud Takes a Walk on the Wild Side
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2018-05-17
Small Intimations: A Reflection on Kensho, Samadhi, and the Zen Way
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2018-05-17
Keep Natural Disasters in Mind
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2018-05-15
Kuoan Shiyuan's Ten Oxherding Pictures
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2018-05-14
In a Buddhist nation: another Muslim 'Catastrophe' Unfolds
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2018-05-13
Visions: A Zen Meditation
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2018-05-12
Right To The Point: Reflections on the Implications of Hakuin's Zen
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2018-05-12
Zen's Way of One Continuous Mistake
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2018-05-11
A Daoist Gospel: Holmes Welch's Parallel Sayings of the Dao De Jing & the Christian Gospels
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2018-05-10
Zen in Western Poety: Samples & a Question
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2018-05-10
Is Buddhism a Religion or What?
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2018-05-09
Buddha's advice for busy times, a layperson's Buddhist ethics
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2018-05-08
Too Many Worldly Burdens
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2018-05-06
THE DAY I MET KALI: A Meditation on a Naturalistic Mysticism
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2018-05-05
Okay, Cinco de Mayo is Not Mexican Independence Day. So, What is it? A Small Exploration of an American Holiday
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2018-05-05
Okay, Cinco de Mayo is Not Mexican Independence Day. So, What is it? A Small Exploration of an American Holiday
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2018-05-03
Dirty Hands
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2018-05-03
Fierce or Friendly: Koan Introspection for Hakuin and Today
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2018-05-03
The Path of Soto Zen & Soto in Hawaii & the Americas
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2018-05-02
A Zen Priest Ponders the Mysteries of "Liberal Religion"
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2018-05-01
The World is Magic: Reflecting on a Zen Koan
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2018-05-01
Go Slow and Easy
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2018-04-30
Project Sunshine, home of #ShambhalaMeToo, approaches revised fundraising goal
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2018-04-30
Keizan's Zazen Yojinki: A Soto Master on Zen Meditation
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2018-04-29
Instructions for Chair Zazen
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2018-04-26
Buddhists and Social Justice: Escaping this world, or our delusions about it?
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2018-04-26
The Buddhist David Hume & the Endless Unfolding of the Human Heart
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2018-04-26
Death Always Follows
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2018-04-26
Death Always Follows
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2018-04-24
The Buddha's Message in Brief: A Paraphrase from the Dhammapada
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2018-04-24
The Buddha's Message in Brief: A Paraphrase from the Dhammapada
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2018-04-24
Zen Master Daniel Terragno on Waking Up to Who & What We Are
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2018-04-24
Zen Master Daniel Terragno on Waking Up to Who & What We Are
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2018-04-24
Wealth and Fame
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2018-04-24
Wealth and Fame
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2018-04-24
Wealth and Fame
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2018-04-23
A Day of Zen in Orange County
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2018-04-23
A Day of Zen in Orange County
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2018-04-22
Buddhism & Zen in Long Beach
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2018-04-22
Buddhism & Zen in Long Beach
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2018-04-22
Buddhism & Zen in Long Beach
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2018-04-22
Buddhism & Zen in Long Beach
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2018-04-21
Ten Rules for Social Engagement: A Zen Priest Ruminates on Promise & Peril
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2018-04-20
A Dream and a Zen Story
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2018-04-20
A Dream and a Zen Story
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2018-04-20
A Dream and a Zen Story
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2018-04-19
No Zen Masters in the West
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2018-04-19
No Zen Masters in the West
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2018-04-18
Healing sexualized violence in the Shambhala Buddhist community
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2018-04-18
Healing sexualized violence in the Shambhala Buddhist community
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2018-04-18
Shortcuts
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2018-04-18
Shortcuts
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2018-04-18
Gary Snyder Points to the Ancient and Modern and Future Paths of the Buddha Way
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2018-04-16
The Mountain of Wisdom
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2018-04-16
The Mountain of Wisdom
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2018-04-16
The Mountain of Wisdom
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2018-04-15
Bow First, Ask Questions Later: A Review of a New Book on Zen Training & the Zen Life
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2018-04-14
Hakuin's Blistering Criticisms of Sōtō Zen: Who and What
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2018-04-13
A Zen Priest Reflects, Just a Little, on Who Is a Buddhist
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2018-04-13
Cut Military Spending: Fund Human Needs, a Buddhist Solution to Syria?
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2018-04-12
A Zen Priest's Mind Bubble on the Dance of Love
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2018-04-12
Han Shan on Material Objects
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2018-04-12
Han Shan on Material Objects
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2018-04-12
Han Shan on Material Objects
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2018-04-11
Small Pointers on Zen Practice
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2018-04-11
Small Pointers on Zen Practice
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2018-04-09
What is Unitarian Universalism: A Catholic High School Student Interviews a Unitarian Universalist Minister
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2018-04-09
What is Unitarian Universalism: A Catholic High School Student Interviews a Unitarian Universalist Minister
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2018-04-09
Zen, Enlightenment, When, And...
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2018-04-08
Evelyn Underhill on Walking the Spiritual Path
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2018-04-07
My Religion is Kindness: A Zen Priest Reflects on the Mysteries of the Human Heart
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2018-04-07
My Religion is Kindness: A Zen Priest Reflects on the Mysteries of the Human Heart
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2018-04-05
The Heart's Weather
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2018-04-05
The Heart's Weather
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2018-04-05
The Heart's Weather
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2018-04-04
A Zen Priest Reflects on the Family of Things
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2018-04-03
Zen & the Therapeutic Arts: A Different Species of Listener
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2018-04-03
State of Innocence
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2018-04-03
State of Innocence
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2018-04-03
What Good is Zen for a Student?
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2018-04-02
A Zen Teacher Maps Out the Spiritual Path
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2018-03-31
On Getting a Job or Finding a Profession; My Small Rant On the Collapse of the American Contract
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2018-03-31
Zazenkai: All Day Zen Retreat in Orange County
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2018-03-31
When God is Dead. A Zen Reflection on Christianity's Holy Saturday
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2018-03-31
When God is Dead. A Zen Priest Reflects on Christianity's Holy Saturday
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2018-03-30
How Old Does a (Real) Zen Teacher Have To Be?
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2018-03-30
How Old Does a (Real) Zen Teacher Have To Be?
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2018-03-30
Americans "Duped," Burmese "Brainwashed" About Ongoing Violence in Burma / Myanmar
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2018-03-30
Americans "Duped," Burmese "Brainwashed" About Ongoing Violence in Burma / Myanmar
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2018-03-30
What Makes a Good Zen Student?
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2018-03-30
What Makes a Good Zen Student?
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2018-03-29
How Old does a (Zen) Teacher have to be?
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2018-03-29
Unshakeable Faith
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2018-03-28
Announcing a Three-Day Zen retreat with James Myoun Ford, Gesshin Greenwood, Gyokei Yokoyama, Jan Seymour-Ford, Renshin Bunce and others
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2018-03-28
Announcing a Three-Day Zen retreat with James Myoun Ford, Gesshin Greenwood, Gyokei Yokoyama, Jan Seymour-Ford, Renshin Bunce and others
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2018-03-27
Violent Buddhists of the 20th Century (and beyond)
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2018-03-27
Violent Buddhists of the 20th Century (and beyond)
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2018-03-27
Original Purity
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2018-03-26
Exploring the Liturgies of Soto Zen Buddhism in North America
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2018-03-26
Exploring the Liturgies of Soto Zen Buddhism in North America
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2018-03-26
Citing Ethical Concerns, Ajahn Brahm Resigns as Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia
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2018-03-25
Henry Thoreau on Walking as a Spiritual Practice
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2018-03-25
Henry Thoreau on Walking as a Spiritual Practice
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2018-03-23
Monuments of Buddhism: A tour of the Great Buddhist Statues
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2018-03-22
Like a Bubble in a Stream: A Zen Teacher Offers a Paraphrase of the Diamond Sutra
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2018-03-22
Like a Bubble in a Stream: A Zen Teacher Offers a Paraphrase of the Diamond Sutra
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2018-03-22
The Constant Chaos
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2018-03-21
Rindo Fujimoto's The Way of Zazen
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2018-03-21
Rindo Fujimoto's The Way of Zazen
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2018-03-20
Noting the Dunites: Early Spiritual Anarchists on California's Central Coast
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2018-03-20
Noting the Dunites: Early Spiritual Anarchists on California's Central Coast
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2018-03-20
Rough and Tumbling Stream
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2018-03-20
Rough and Tumbling Stream
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2018-03-19
Principles of Seated Meditation: Ch'ang-lu Tsung-tse's Manual of Zen Meditation
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-17
Awakening in the West: Zen, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism, and Learning to Fall
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2018-03-16
Got $12,000 to spend on a book? Murals of Tibet is Perfect for You
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2018-03-15
Sword of Discrimination
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2018-03-15
Sword of Discrimination
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2018-03-15
Zazenkai: A Day of Zen Meditation with James Myoun Ford, Gesshin Greenwood, & Jan Seymour-Ford
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2018-03-15
On The Death of a Tyrant: Or, Reflections on the Ides of March
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2018-03-15
Encountering the Mysteries of Our Hearts: A day long Zen Retreat
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2018-03-14
Thinking of Stephen Hawking, Making Apple Pie, & the Range of the Human Mind
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2018-03-14
Thinking of Stephen Hawking, Making Apple Pie, & the Range of the Human Mind
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2018-03-14
Recalling Daisetsu Tangen Harada Roshi, Beloved Master of the Soto Way
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2018-03-13
Learning to Love: Zen & the Problems of the Ego
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2018-03-13
Preaching to the Dead
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2018-03-13
Preaching to the Dead
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2018-03-12
A Zen Meditation Retreat with Roshi James Myoun Ford
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2018-03-12
A Zen Meditation Retreat with Roshi James Myoun Ford
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2018-03-12
Big Idea, Big Stupid, Big Realization
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2018-03-11
Recalling Zen Master Soen Nakagawa
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2018-03-10
Twenty-Five Talks on Zen Koans
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2018-03-10
Twenty-Five Talks on Zen Koans
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2018-03-09
A Zen Teaching for the Last Age
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2018-03-09
A Zen Koan from the Bible
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2018-03-08
The Zen of Soulfulness
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2018-03-08
The Zen of Soulfulness
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2018-03-06
Koans are a Rag-bag
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2018-03-06
Koans are a Rag-bag
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2018-03-05
Dalai Lama, Citing Progress, is Optimistic for Humanity
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2018-03-05
Acquiring the Ability to Teach Dunces of the Poorer Sort
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2018-03-05
Silly Mountain: Han Shan Deqing
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2018-03-05
Silly Mountain: Han Shan Deqing
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2018-03-05
Mu & Nothingness: A Reflection on Zen and the Great Empty
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2018-03-03
Zen Wisdom in the Desert
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2018-03-02
How to Start a Zen Group
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2018-03-01
Zen & Literature: A Review of Into Terrible Light
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2018-03-01
Zen & Literature: A Review of Into Terrible Light
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2018-03-01
Sometimes I Think About Old Ikkyu
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2018-03-01
Sometimes I Think About Old Ikkyu
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2018-02-26
Recalling Roshi Maurine Stuart: American Zen Founding Mother
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2018-02-26
Against the Wind
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2018-02-26
Against the Wind
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2018-02-25
Songs in Praise of Tending an Ox: Three Zen Talks
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2018-02-25
Songs in Praise of Tending an Ox: Three Zen Talks
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2018-02-25
Songs in Praise of Tending an Ox: Three Zen Talks
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2018-02-25
Songs in Praise of Tending an Ox: Three Zen Talks
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2018-02-24
Zen & the Art of Finding Solace Within the Real
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2018-02-23
Hakuin Helps An Old Sōtō Priest Favorlessly Meet Birth and Death
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2018-02-23
Hakuin Helps An Old Sōtō Priest Favorlessly Meet Birth and Death
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2018-02-23
Zen, the Tangle of Language, and the Heart of Our Liberation
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2018-02-23
Zen, the Tangle of Language, and the Heart of Our Liberation
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2018-02-22
Buddhism, Burma, and Politics via Religion Dispatches
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2018-02-22
The Zen of Letting Go: Three Perspectives on Dying Before You Die
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2018-02-22
Loss
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2018-02-20
Burn Out? Never: A guide to Compassionate, Mindful Activism
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2018-02-20
Burn Out? Never: A guide to Compassionate, Mindful Activism
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2018-02-20
Eating Rice, Taming an Ox: Master Dogen on Zen Practice
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2018-02-20
Eating Rice, Taming an Ox: Master Dogen on Zen Practice
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2018-02-19
Common Decency: Thinking About Fred Rogers Fifty Years After The First Episode of Mr Roger's Neighborhood
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2018-02-19
The Empty Field
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2018-02-19
The Empty Field
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2018-02-18
A Meditation on Our Broken World, Zen’s Ten Oxherding Pictures, & the Intimate Way
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2018-02-18
A Meditation on Our Broken World, Zen’s Ten Oxherding Pictures, & the Intimate Way
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2018-02-17
The Cloud of Not Knowing: A Meditation on Zen and the World's Faiths
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2018-02-16
Marking the Birth of Phineas Quimby & the Earliest Beginnings of the New Thought Movement
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2018-02-16
Marking the Birth of Phineas Quimby & the Earliest Beginnings of the New Thought Movement
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2018-02-15
Two Versions of a Buddha's Last Sermon
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2018-02-15
"Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men"
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2018-02-15
"Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men"
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2018-02-15
On Generosity
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2018-02-15
On Generosity
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2018-02-14
As Lovely as a Kiss: A Small Zen Reflection on Ash Wednesday & Valentine's Day
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2018-02-13
Tevye's Many Hands: A Meditation on Zen & the Ways of Nondual Embodiment
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2018-02-12
Hurray! Hurray! It's Darwin Day!
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2018-02-12
Will You Be Aware of Your Own Awakening?
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2018-02-12
Afflictions
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2018-02-11
Dalai Lama affirms, Prayers Alone are not Enough, we Need Action
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2018-02-10
How To Spot Fake News: And, Why We're Probably Screwed
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2018-02-09
Going to Be Spotty for a Bit
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2018-02-09
Angulimala and the Buddha: Fearlessness
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2018-02-08
Buddhist "Smart" prayer beads to be introduced by computer firm Acer
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2018-02-08
My Zen Life: Nothing Between the Nameless & the Named: What More Can We Want?
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2018-02-07
On Mu & Buddha Nature: A Reflection on Zen & Koan Introspection
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2018-02-06
March, March, A New Day is Breaking
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2018-02-06
Join the Buddhists Supporting the Rohingya of Burma
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2018-02-06
Lay Practice Within North American Soto Zen: A Meditation
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2018-02-05
How It is Supposed to Be: A Zen Meditation
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2018-02-05
Tears of Love, Tears of Resentment
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2018-02-05
Take Care of Yourself
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2018-02-05
Take Care of Yourself
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2018-02-04
Blue Cliff Zen Sangha Holds Its First Sesshin: A Photo Gallery
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2018-02-04
Blue Cliff Zen Sangha Holds Its First Sesshin: A Photo Gallery
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2018-02-04
On Universalism & Restituion: The Path of Healing for Our Times
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2018-02-04
On Universalism & Restituion: The Path of Healing for Our Times
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2018-02-01
Learning to Travel Light: A Mind Bubble on Beginning one more Zen retreat
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2018-02-01
No Self and You
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2018-01-30
Fraters of the Wayside Inn At One Hundred & Sixteen Years: A Meditation on Universal Salvation
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2018-01-30
Fraters of the Wayside Inn At One Hundred & Sixteen Years: A Meditation on Universal Salvation
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2018-01-30
4 Residential Buddhist Life Opportunities to Apply to Today
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2018-01-30
4 Residential Buddhist Life Opportunities to Apply to Today
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2018-01-29
Was the Buddha a Philosopher? (Video)
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2018-01-29
The Zen Priesthood: A Fold of Failures
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2018-01-29
Practicing Enlightenment
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2018-01-27
Just Reaching Out: A Zen Meditation on Life and Death and the Thing that Happens In-Between
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2018-01-26
37 Practices: Don't Say Anything
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2018-01-25
The West Needs Buddhism: a Meditation from 1929
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2018-01-25
The West Needs Buddhism: a Meditation from 1929
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2018-01-24
Simplicity Itself: A Few Thoughts on Bowing and Zen
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2018-01-24
Simplicity Itself: A Few Thoughts on Bowing and Zen
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2018-01-24
37 Practices: The Perfections
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2018-01-24
37 Practices: The Perfections
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2018-01-23
What is Real? A Rationalist Zen Meditation on a Neo-Pagan Anecdote
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2018-01-23
What is Real? A Rationalist Zen Meditation on a Neo-Pagan Anecdote
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2018-01-22
The Buddhist Life, the Zen Life
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2018-01-22
The Buddhist Life, the Zen Life
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2018-01-22
Hakuin's Advice for How To Attain Kenshō
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2018-01-22
37 Practices: Let it Go
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2018-01-22
37 Practices: Let it Go
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2018-01-21
Like a Thief in the Night: Considering What Is Real Zen Practice
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2018-01-21
Like a Thief in the Night: Considering What Is Real Zen Practice
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2018-01-20
Soto Zen Buddhism in North America: Some Random Notes from a Work in Progress
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2018-01-19
Mindfulness and Career Attachments: An Exercise with Author Maia Duerr
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2018-01-19
Beginning Again: A Zen Meditation
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2018-01-19
37 Practices: Subdue Your Own Mind
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2018-01-18
Links of Buddhism Become Western: Noting Dorothy Hunt's Golden Chain
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2018-01-18
Links of Buddhism Become Western: Noting Dorothy Hunt's Golden Chain
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2018-01-17
37 Practices: Put Them Above You
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2018-01-17
37 Practices: Put Them Above You
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2018-01-17
Saving Everyone: A Zen Reflection
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2018-01-17
Saving Everyone: A Zen Reflection
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2018-01-16
Zen Master Raven Tells Us How to Die
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2018-01-15
Recalling the Faithful Fool Kay Jorgensen
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2018-01-15
Recalling the Faithful Fool Kay Jorgensen
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2018-01-15
Wump - There It Is
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2018-01-15
Endless Gratitude: A Zen Priest Pauses and Reflects on Community
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2018-01-15
37 Practices: Give Rise to Awakening Mind
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2018-01-14
An early Buddhist Mindfulness Song
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2018-01-14
An early Buddhist Mindfulness Song
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2018-01-13
angel Kyodo Williams on a Possible Emerging American Zen Buddhism
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2018-01-12
Clouds & Water: A Zen Priest Considers Some Turning Words
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2018-01-12
Clouds & Water: A Zen Priest Considers Some Turning Words
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2018-01-11
That Over flowing Tea Cup: A Small Reflection on Not Noticing the Moment
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2018-01-11
Noting the Great Zen Master Linji, Together With a Couple of Pointers
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2018-01-11
Noting the Great Zen Master Linji, Together With a Couple of Pointers
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2018-01-10
Buddhist Wisdom: Three Principal Pali Buddhist Texts
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2018-01-10
37 Practices: Going For Refuge
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2018-01-10
37 Practices: Going For Refuge
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2018-01-08
A Zen Priest Plays With the Three Demons
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2018-01-08
A Zen Priest Plays With the Three Demons
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2018-01-08
Hakuin on Kenshō and the Bodhisattva Vows
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2018-01-07
Three Things: A Zen Priest Reflects Briefly on How to take the Tradition Seriously
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2018-01-07
Three Things: A Zen Priest Reflects Briefly on How to take the Tradition Seriously
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2018-01-06
A Small Reflection on Zen's Several Ways, Together With Some Thoughts About Zen Teachers
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2018-01-06
A Small Reflection on Zen's Several Ways, Together With Some Thoughts About Zen Teachers
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2018-01-05
Who Is This 'Hakuin' Guy?
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2018-01-05
37 Practices: Keep Awareness Clear and Vivid
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2018-01-05
Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten: Further Thoughts on Zen & Weight Watchers
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2018-01-04
February Intensive Zen Meditation Retreat With James Ishmael Ford, Gesshin Greenwood, & Jan Seymour-Ford
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2018-01-02
A Handful of Good Blogs About the Zen Life
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2018-01-02
A Handful of Good Blogs About the Zen Life
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2018-01-01
The Zen Way of Original Awakening
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2018-01-01
37 Practices of A Bodhisattva: Introduction
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2018-01-01
37 Practices of A Bodhisattva: Introduction