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2019-12-30
The Mad Monk Dies
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2019-12-29
ON BECOMING SPIRITUAL ADULTS: A Hanukkah Meditation
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2019-12-27
A Terrible Joy: A Reflection on Zen & Awakening in All Circumstances
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2019-12-25
Brad Warner's Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen: A Review
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2019-12-24
Recalling John Muir, Nature Mystic, and Paragon of the Intimate Way
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2019-12-23
Ram Das and the Call to Be Here Now
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2019-12-22
Magnificat
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2019-12-21
The Zen priest finds himself thinking of Thomas the Doubter as a paragon of the Intimate Way, the Secret Heart of Religions
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2019-12-20
Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck!
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2019-12-19
A Zen Priest Reflects on His Past Lives
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2019-12-12
The Great Cloud Dies: Recalling Zen Master Daiun Sogaku Harada
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2019-12-10
The Zen Priest Ordination of Janine Seitetsu Larsen
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2019-12-06
Issues in Translation: On 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
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2019-12-05
Faustus Socinus and the Wisdom of the West: Bringing Brain With Heart onto the Intimate Way
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2019-12-04
Recalling the Shunryu Suzuki and Zen in America
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2019-12-03
The Jesuit & the Zen Master: Recalling a Sixteenth Century Encounter
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2019-11-29
You Can't Do It Alone Even On the Internet: A Few Thoughts on Calming and Seeing
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2019-11-27
Wishing Everyone a Blessed Feast of Saints Barlaam & Josaphat!
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2019-11-26
I Am Grateful, So Grateful. Noting the Day Zen Master Koun Yamada Had His Great Awakening.
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2019-11-24
Mr Darwin's Troublesome Book is Published
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2019-11-24
OFFERING INCENSE: Reflecting on my journey Between
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2019-11-22
Kennedy Is Assassinated: Memories, Dreams, History
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2019-11-21
The Crazy Cloud Exits: Zen master Ikkyu Dies...
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2019-11-20
Introducing Zen Buddhism: Some Brief Online Resources
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2019-11-19
Turn Turn Turn...
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2019-11-19
Mr Lincoln Speaks of a New Birth
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2019-11-18
THE MEAT CUTTER'S APPRENTICE: From the Collected Stories of the Intimate Way
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2019-11-17
Getting Real: Or, the Velveteen Rabbit as a Commentary on an Ancient Zen Koan
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2019-11-14
Thinking About that Problem We All Live With & What Love Actually Looks Like
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2019-11-12
James Luther Adams
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2019-11-11
Last Night We Saw Jojo Rabbit
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2019-11-10
Rohatsu 2019 in Seattle, with the Reverend James Myoun Ford
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2019-11-10
Boundless Way Coming & Going Three Week Intensive Retreat
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2019-11-10
Five Challenges for Soto Zen in North America
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2019-11-09
Remembering Mary Travers
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2019-11-05
The Gateless Barrier is Published, and the Zen Way is Revealed for All
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2019-11-05
We Just Saw Harriet. We Strongly Recommend You See It, Too...
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2019-11-04
Yes. Wonderful Things
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2019-11-01
Saint Death, Holy Death, the Goddess Kali, and the Mysterious Intimations of Life and Death
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2019-10-31
On Halloween & the Saving of Ghosts. The Smallest of Zen Reflections...
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2019-10-30
Thinking about the Madness of Crowds, and their Occasional Wisdom
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2019-10-27
A Brief Introduction to the Soto School of Zen
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2019-10-26
Remembering Ida B Wells
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2019-10-25
Toward a Circumscribed Relativism: Another Mind Bubble from an Aging Western Zen Priest
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2019-10-24
What's In a Word: A Small Meditation on Who is and Who is Not a Buddhist
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2019-10-18
How Zen Came to Become Zen: Barbara O'Brien's "The Circle of the Way"
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2019-10-16
My Bhutan Pilgrimage-ish, Part Tourism, Part Leaning into the Spirituality of a Himalayan Buddhist Country
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2019-10-15
Happy Birthday to Thich Nhat Hanh & the Smallest of Meditations on InterBeing and It's Near Enemies
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2019-10-14
A Song of Trusting in Mind
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2019-10-14
Bhutan: Where the Yeti Run Free. Okay, It's Migoli. But, You Get the Point.
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2019-10-14
Keepers of the Secrets of Our Hearts: On the Bhutanese Nuns Foundation, Dr Tashi Zangmo, & the Nun Namgyel Lhamo
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2019-10-12
A caravan. A pilgrimage. And at the very same time just a group of tourists. The Zen Priest Continues His Bhutan Adventure
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2019-10-12
In Hong Kong, the Bodhisattvas wear Crosses
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2019-10-11
Through a Bhutanese Window: The Zen Priest Reflects
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2019-10-10
The Zen Priest in Bhutan: Glad for the Day
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2019-10-09
The Zen Priest Continues his Bhutan Adventure: Or, Not Knowing is Most Intimate
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2019-10-06
Wonders Await: The Zen Priest Continues to Explore Bhutan
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2019-10-05
It Was Here I Realized Bhutan is Holy
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2019-10-05
Wherein the Zen Priest Learns He is a Gomchen
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2019-10-04
Wherein the Zen Priest Sits in a Meditation Cave at the Dochula Pass
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2019-10-04
A Stream of Prayer: The Zen Priest Lingers in Thimphu
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2019-10-02
The Zen Priest Visits Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon, Encounters some Vajrayana Nuns, And Contemplates How Magical the Real Is
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2019-10-01
Dreaming of the Buddha's Ashes: Last Day in Bangkok
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2019-09-30
A Zen Priest Visits John Blofeld's Grave
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2019-09-29
A Zen Priest Visits the Site Where Fr Thomas Merton Died
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2019-09-28
First Full Day in Bangkok Wherein the Zen priest Wanders Through Wat Pho Without Totally Disgracing Himself
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2019-09-27
Still Innocent-ish. Still Abroad. Beginning Some Tales from Bangkok...
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2019-09-26
Beginning my Asian Adventure: Or, an Innocent Abroad
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2019-09-23
Recalling the First Woman to Run for President: Victoria Woodhull
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2019-09-22
Every Day is a Good Day: A Zen Talk with James Myoun Ford
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2019-09-21
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen!
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2019-09-19
Tales of the Magical Real: Or, When a Parable and a Koan Point to the Same Place
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2019-09-17
The Day Harriet Tubman, the Woman Called Moses, Escaped to Freedom
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2019-09-16
Karen Horney & the Zen Buddhist Encounter With Western Psychology
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2019-09-15
When I Think of Saints I think of James Chisholm
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2019-09-14
A Few Words on Zen Practice
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2019-09-11
Take Care of the Children, A 9/11 Meditation
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2019-09-10
Letting Go: A Small Zen Meditation
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2019-09-09
Thirteen Years of Monkey Mind: Status Report
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2019-09-08
Theodore Parker, the Moral Arc of the Universe, And a Spirituality for Our Times
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2019-09-07
They Say If You Understand the Sound of the Single Hand, You Become Buddha. How Do You Become Buddha?
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2019-09-07
Better than Fiction: Or, When a Surrealist Poet was Accused of Stealing the Mona Lisa
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2019-09-06
Remembering Zen Master Issan Dorsey
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2019-09-01
What If? Walking the Silk Road and finding a Luminous Religion
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2019-08-31
Hong Kong: Democracy, Protest, and Violence. A Primer (Videos)
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2019-08-29
The Poetry of Mysticism: Or, Mrs Underhill’s Foray into Universalist Mysticism
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2019-08-29
Bodhidharma, Age 7
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2019-08-28
Sogyal Lakar, well-known Tibetan Buddhist teacher and alleged sexual abuser of his students, has died
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2019-08-27
Seventy-Five Years After the Liberation of Paris I Watched Is Paris Burning
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2019-08-25
Japan Meets Europe: Or, How Peixinhos da Horta Becomes Tempura
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2019-08-23
Harmony of Difference and Sameness (Alternate Translation)
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2019-08-23
Want a Spiritual Practice? Memorize These Four Quotes
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2019-08-20
Encouragement
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2019-08-20
Show Me the Ink: A Reflection on Zen's Inka Shomei
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2019-08-19
A Temple to Love
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2019-08-18
Secular vs Religious, Buddhism vs Mindfulness, and a Christmas Tree
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2019-08-16
Enter Ramakrishna
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2019-08-15
Without Keizan, We Probably Would Have No Idea There Was a Dogen
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2019-08-14
Visions: A Zen Way of Seeing Through the Veils of Our Hearts Without Getting Tangled
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2019-08-13
Yes, Hong Kong is still Safe. For now.
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2019-08-13
Happy Birthday Lucy Stone: World Class Troublemaker
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2019-08-09
Smokey the Bear Turns Seventy-Five
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2019-08-09
Thinking of Henry David Thoreau, Walden, and an American Daoism
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2019-08-08
A President Resigns
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2019-08-07
Women & Their Cars: Recalling Alice Huyler Ramsey and Her Amazing Journey
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2019-08-05
DIVING DEEP: Announcing a Three Day Session With James Myoun Ford
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2019-08-04
A Short Meditation on the Three-legged Stool of the Zen Way
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2019-08-04
A Buddhist Story for Troubled Times: Grief, Loss, and Heartbreak
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2019-08-03
OUR ANCESTOR'S DREAMS: Engaging a Zen koan from the Bible
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2019-08-02
Recalling Jeanne de Clisson & Women You Don't Mess With
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2019-08-01
Some Hasty Notes on the Western Encounter with Buddhism & Specifically Zen in the West
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2019-08-01
Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses the Climate Crisis at the UN (Video)
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2019-08-01
Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses Climate Change at the UN (Video)
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2019-07-29
Zen & Kensho: Or, What Happens After Dorothy Returns from Oz
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2019-07-28
I find myself thinking of Margot Adler
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2019-07-25
Six Markers of a Modernist Buddhism
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2019-07-23
Zen: Revisiting an Early Book by Alan Watts
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2019-07-23
Jah Rastafari: Marking the Birth of a Divine King
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2019-07-21
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the first Human Walking on the Moon, A Zen Priest Reflects on Reaching for the Stars
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2019-07-18
Remembering Les Horribles Cernettes, who gave us the first picture on the world wide web
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2019-07-15
To Catch a Thief: Retelling an Ancient Hindu Story
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2019-07-14
Joseph Priestley, the Priestley Riots, and the Dawn of Modern Liberal Religion
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2019-07-13
Mother of Exiles: Recalling the Destruction of a City, and with it, the Birth of a Religion
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2019-07-10
Like a Bite of Madeleine: Marcel Proust & His Zen Koan
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2019-07-09
The Unicorn in the Garden: A Zen Story Retold
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2019-07-08
Never Again is Now: A Letter To Buddhist Leaders
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2019-07-08
Zen, Lists, and Finding the Heart of the World
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2019-07-04
The America of My Dreams: The Briefest of Meditations for the Fourth of July
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2019-07-02
Not Knowing: A Pointer on the Intimate Way
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2019-06-30
The Sage Wonderful & the Vineyard: A Zen Priest Retells an Ancient Koan
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2019-06-28
A Week of Zazen: Soto Zen in Long Beach & Orange County
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2019-06-26
Trying to Save the World: A Zen Priest Tries to Cut to the Chase But Doesn't Quite Get There
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2019-06-26
As Time Goes By: Our Alabaster Year
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2019-06-25
The Day the Most Amazing Dunhuang Library Was Discovered
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2019-06-24
Dancing Before the Altar of God: A Zen Priest's Smallest Meditation
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2019-06-23
LOVE ENCOUNTERS A WORLD ON FIRE
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2019-06-20
ZEN IN THE OC: Anaheim Zen Sangha Calendar for the end of June and month of July
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2019-06-19
Thinking of the American Zen Master Robert Aitken
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2019-06-19
Freedom Day: Recalling Juneteenth
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2019-06-18
What Should I do With My Hands & Other Questions for Zen Practice
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2019-06-17
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing: Remembering James Weldon Johnson
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2019-06-17
Review of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
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2019-06-16
Dreaming Our Fathers: A Meditation for Father's Day
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2019-06-15
A Feast for Evelyn: Or, A Zen Priest Offers Incense for the Repose of a Christian Mystic
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2019-06-11
A Zen Buddhist Priest Wonders if Universalism Can Save the World?
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2019-06-11
Doug's Secular Dharma to offer online courses in Buddhism
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2019-06-10
The Abbess Tumbles Down a Hill: A Christian Story Retold by a Zen Priest
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2019-06-08
Dreaming a Cookbook & a Pie: A Traditional Zen Story Retold
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2019-06-08
Intersections between Buddhism, Health, and Diversity in an American City
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2019-06-07
Recalling John Blofeld, Western Buddhist Ancestor
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2019-06-06
The Americanization of Zen Chanting: A Review
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2019-06-05
An Ox Looks at Man
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2019-06-04
Encountering the Intimate: A Zen Priest Recalls an Ancient Story
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2019-06-02
When Is Walking Meditation? A Zen Reflection
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2019-06-01
Beyond Measure Meets a Fox: A Zen Story for Our Lives
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2019-05-31
Happy 200th Birthday, Walt Whitman!
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2019-05-30
Is Zen Weak on Compassion Teachings? The Dust and Dirt of the Third Rank
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2019-05-30
Soto Zen's Secret Explanation of Bowing
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2019-05-27
Julia Ward Howe & Samuel: A Memorial Day Meditation
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2019-05-27
The ongoing importance of Engaging with Buddhism
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2019-05-23
Remembering Margaret Fuller
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2019-05-22
Celebrating Harvey Milk
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2019-05-21
St Helena: Recalling the Patron Saint of Spiritual Tourism
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2019-05-20
Rinzai and Sōtō Meet Face-to-Face
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2019-05-19
Covenant As Unitarian Universalism's Great Spiritual Discipline
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2019-05-18
Enlightenment, Endarkenment, Zen
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2019-05-15
False Starts. Or, Mickey Almost Steps Forth...
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2019-05-14
Recalling America's Last Witchcraft Trial
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2019-05-14
Zen Practice for Everyone and More
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2019-05-12
What Is Zen? Really?
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2019-05-11
Zen Practice for Everyone
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2019-05-09
The Anaheim Zen Sangha Begins to Sink Some Roots
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2019-05-09
Gene Reeves, Unitarian Universalist Minister, Buddhist Scholar & Teacher
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2019-05-08
The Poet in Winter: Gary Snyder Turns Eighty-Nine
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2019-05-08
I'm still here!
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2019-05-07
East, West, & the New Universalism: Marking Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday
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2019-05-06
Zen Meditation: A Quick Outline of Silent Illumination
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2019-05-05
WHY CINCO DE MAYO MATTERS
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2019-05-04
The Zen of Engaged Buddhism: Maia Duerr's Five Noble Truths
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2019-05-03
Recalling Folksinger, Activist, & America's Conscience Pete Seeger on his One Hundredth Birthday
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2019-04-30
More Thoughts from the Lay Zen Monk Weasel Tracks: Theologia Belarusica II [2a]
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2019-04-28
Ordinary Mind is the Way: Comments on one of the Great Zen Koans
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2019-04-27
How to be a Guru for Fun & Profit: Alan Watts' Guide to the Ins and Outs of Being a Trickster Guru
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2019-04-26
Once Upon a Time There Was a Queen Named Love
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2019-04-25
In Case You're Looking for a Spiritual Practice, Here's One to Consider
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2019-04-24
Thinking of Abba Moses the Black: A Zen Priest Considers Wisdoms from the Desert Fathers & Mothers
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2019-04-22
An Invitation to Investigate the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training
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2019-04-22
A Feast for John Muir, Nature Mystic, American Daoist Master
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2019-04-21
Easter as a Zen Koan
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2019-04-18
A Zen Priest's Argument With the Argument from Design
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2019-04-16
Angels, Demons, & Wolves: A Zen Priest Considers Human Nature
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2019-04-15
Knowing is not the way: A Small Reflection on a Zen koan
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2019-04-14
John Steinbeck, the Grapes of Wrath, and a Song Calling to a New Day
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2019-04-12
Zen, Ethics, & the Spiritual Life: A Small Reflection on Being Intentional About What We Do
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2019-04-11
Zen Art of Oryoki - Some Things I Forgot to Mention
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2019-04-10
Occam's Razor, a Feast for William, and a Celebration of Critical Thinking
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2019-04-09
The Dharma for Taking Food: The Zen Art of Oryoki
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2019-04-07
Happy Birthday, Unitarian Saint, William Ellery Channing!
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2019-04-06
Thinking of Ram Das & the Realization that God Loves Pot Smoking Draft Dodgers
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2019-04-06
Your Moment of Zen: Exploring the Meaning of a Word
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2019-04-04
If You Want to See the Future, Look to Los Angeles
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2019-04-02
How Are You Free? A Zen Meditation
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2019-04-01
Ah, Yes, April Fool's Day
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2019-03-27
Joko Beck: American Zen Master
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2019-03-26
The Calling of our Bones: Zen in a Handful of Quotes & Poems
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2019-03-25
ZEN IN THE OC: Announcing our new Zen sangha gathering in Anaheim
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2019-03-25
Heaven & Hell: A Zen Meditation on the Crucifixion & that Good Thief
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2019-03-20
Come, Thief: Telling & Retelling of a Story of a Zen Life
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2019-03-19
Librarians as Guardians of Civilization: Recalling Clara Breed
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2019-03-18
Bhutan Adventure with Zen teachers James Ford & Gaelyn Godwin, and Others
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2019-03-17
All Hail St Gertrude, Patron of Cats
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2019-03-16
Four Central Texts of Soto Zen Buddhism
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2019-03-15
La Fe de un Unitario Universalista Budista
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2019-03-15
Noting the Birth of the Notorious RBG
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2019-03-13
A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNION (For Unitarian Universalists & Other Religious Liberals)
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2019-03-12
Hitting the Road With Jack Kerouac
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2019-03-12
Face What Appears Before You
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2019-03-11
Zen Master Soen Nakagawa
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2019-03-10
Spend a month in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery this summer – Woodenfish HBMLP in China
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2019-03-10
Spend a month in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery this summer – Woodenfish HBMLP in China
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2019-03-09
Waking a Dancing World: A Zen Priest Reflects On Being Spiritually Fluid
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2019-03-08
Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing
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2019-03-08
Recalling American Zen Master Issan Dorsey
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2019-03-03
Thinking of Mother Roshi, One of the West's Founding Teachers
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2019-03-02
Carpe Diem: A Small Reflection on Zen & the Moment We Get
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2019-03-01
IN QUEST OF AN AMERICAN ZEN
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2019-02-27
pause, breathe, smile: awakening mindfulness when meditation is not enough, a Review
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2019-02-24
ALL BEINGS, ONE BODY: A TRUE HISTORY OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM
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2019-02-24
Is Zen a Joke or a Trick? Crabs, Cartoons, and Solemnity
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2019-02-21
In Quest of a Single Best Introduction to Zen & It's Practices
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2019-02-20
A Feast for Frederick Douglass
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2019-02-19
Buddhist generosity: Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center in California raises over $5000 to repair storm damage
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2019-02-18
UU Church in Anaheim, California, Announces New Minister
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2019-02-18
Thinking of the White Rose
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2019-02-17
Further abuse accusations against Sakyong Mipham, head of Shambhala Buddhism
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2019-02-16
Announcing An Intensive Zen Meditation Retreat with Zen Teacher James Myoun Ford
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2019-02-16
The Buddha's Last Words
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2019-02-16
Is Awakening (Kenshō) a Hallucination (Makyō)?
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2019-02-14
And a Blessed Valentine's Day to You
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2019-02-13
Valentines Day for Buddhists, a Warning
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2019-02-13
Valentines Day for Buddhists, a Warning
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2019-02-11
Progressive Buddhism: An Australian Buddhist Nun Speaks on Tibetan Buddhism, Patriarchy, and India
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2019-02-10
A Zen Priest Reflects on the Origin of Religion
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2019-02-09
Charge to the Congregation - for the Ordination of Rayna Houdyshell Hamre
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2019-02-08
A Zen Priest's Five Pointers for Getting Over Yourself
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2019-02-08
Petition: Shambhala Buddhism Students seek to split from "authoritarian" structure
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2019-02-08
Universalism as Paradoxical Intervention: A Paper by the Reverend John Gibbons
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2019-02-06
Letting Go: A Smallest Zen Reflection
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2019-02-03
The Koan of Our Lives: Zen, the Ten Commandments & the Beatitudes
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2019-02-03
Does this Comment Spark Joy?
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2019-02-02
A Chikuto Landscape: Ruminations by Zen priest & scholar Glenn Taylor Webb
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2019-02-01
Thinking of Gods, Goddesses, and a Fiery Arrow: a Paganish Buddhist Meditation
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2019-01-30
Western Dharma: Briefest Reflections of a Buddhist Universalist
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2019-01-28
A Word or Two in Favor of Kindness
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2019-01-25
The Buddha's Last Instruction
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2019-01-25
Of Farts, the Form of Mountains, & The Flights of Geese: Thinking of the Zen Poet Su Dongpo
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2019-01-24
Sixteen Bodhisattvas: The Smallest of Meditations on a Koan, and the Possibilities of Our Lives
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2019-01-23
Anonymous redditor shares troubling experience in Shambhala Buddhism
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2019-01-23
Anonymous redditor shares troubling experience in Shambhala Buddhism
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2019-01-19
Hōkyōji Memories on Katagiri Rōshi's 91st Birthday
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2019-01-19
Enter Edgar Allan Poe
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2019-01-18
Zen Come West: A Passing Reflection on Emerging Opportunities & Dangers
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2019-01-17
A wrap-up of 2018 life adventures (a short version)
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2019-01-16
A Zen Priest Reflects on the Flower Sermon: Gateless Gate, Case 6
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2019-01-14
A Western Zen priest's Random Collection of Favorite Songs of Longing, Loss, Hope, and Finding...
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2019-01-13
On the Utter, Complete, Total Ordinariness of Mu: A Meditation on One of Zen's Most Famous Koans
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2019-01-11
Enter Alexander Hamilton
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2019-01-10
Crossing a Rubicon
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2019-01-08
Thinking of Saint Death, Her Cult, and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
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2019-01-06
A Small Zen Meditation on the Festival of the Epiphany
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2019-01-06
One Hundred & Four Years of Alan Watts
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2019-01-03
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is Born, And With Him, Worlds...
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2019-01-01
Oh, My! An Aging Zen Priest Contemplates this New Year