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2020-12-26
LIVING IN THIS FLOATING WORLD: A Meditation on the Zen Koan, "Zhaozhou's Bowl"
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2020-12-25
WHO SHALL WE BE? A Meditation on Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol
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2020-12-24
A Christmas Eve Meditation
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2020-12-19
Some of Those Saints: Recalling Some Spiritual Leaders Who Died in 2020
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2020-12-14
Life Advice From the Buddha
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2020-12-13
The Rites of Religion: A Small Meditation Following the Ordination of the Reverend Lisa Garcia-Sampson to the Unitarian Universalist Ministry
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2020-12-11
Narcissus Drowned: The Zen Priest Takes a Peek Into an Ancient Mirror
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2020-12-10
The Zen Priest Reflects on a Jewish Story on the Eve of Hanukkah
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2020-12-09
A Rohatsu Meditation
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2020-12-07
The Buddha and the Truth About Suffering
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2020-12-06
Mary Sang: The Zen Priest Offers an Advent Meditation
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2020-12-05
The Zen Priest Considers Dionysius the Areopagite
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2020-12-01
A Small Meditation on Picking and Choosing in Religion
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2020-11-30
Introduction to Zen Mind
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2020-11-29
Alan Watts' Mystical Christianity
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2020-11-27
A Christian Feast for the Buddha: Recalling Barlaam & Josaphat
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2020-11-26
Thanksgiving as Conundrum. Thanksgiving as Zen Koan.
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2020-11-24
Impermanence and Death (video)
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2020-11-23
The Zen Priest Dreams a Trinity
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2020-11-23
Mistakes
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2020-11-22
Kennedy, Memories, Dreams
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2020-11-19
The Zen Priest Sings a Song of the Blessing Way
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2020-11-15
That New Universalism: A Smallest Meditation on a Religion of the Heart
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2020-11-11
Progressive responses to the 2020 election of Biden over Trump
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2020-11-08
FEAR & COURAGE & FAITH: A Meditation on Politics and the Intimate Way
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2020-11-08
Reflections on Zen Practice Now and What Comes Next
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2020-11-03
A Small Meditation on a Day
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2020-11-02
Happy Birthday, k.d. lang. And Thanks for that Song...
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2020-11-01
The Masks of God: A Meditation on the Feast for All Saints
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2020-10-31
Zen Perspectives on Spirituality and Spiritual Practice in Hard Times
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2020-10-28
Recalling Abigail Adams, Founding Mother
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2020-10-27
Signs & Portents
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2020-10-24
HOW ARE WE FREE? A Meditation on a Zen Koan
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2020-10-18
A Meditation on What My Grandmother Taught Me
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2020-10-10
Book of Equanimity Case 37
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2020-10-06
Recalling William Tyndale of the Golden Tongue
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2020-10-06
Making a Business of the Dharma
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2020-10-04
Crazy for God. Crazy for the World. A Small Meditation on St Francis
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2020-10-02
Moral Character and Intention in the Dhammapada
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2020-09-29
The Buddha’s First Sermon
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2020-09-29
Translating God
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2020-09-28
Improving On Silence
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2020-09-27
HEALING THE WORLD: A Small Yom Kippur Meditation
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2020-09-25
The Unawakened Life Sucks - The First Noble Truth
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2020-09-23
Pick Up The Newspaper! Actualizing The Artificial Bodhisattva
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2020-09-23
The Unawakened Life Sucks - The First Noble Truth
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2020-09-22
The Buddha’s Diet
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2020-09-18
Three Levels of Buddhism
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2020-09-16
Going Against the Identity Center and Going With: The Missing Motif
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2020-09-15
What is Nikaya Buddhism?
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2020-09-11
Waiting for the Big One: A Small Meditation on Dukkha
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2020-09-11
Buddhist Hermeneutics
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2020-09-08
Three Unwholesome Roots
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2020-09-06
FOLLOWING THE SCENTED GRASSES: A Meditation on Beginnings and Endings and What Happens in Between
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2020-09-05
A PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: Zen, Maps of the Spiritual Life, Miscellaneous Traps, and, of course, the Fat Guy
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2020-09-04
Translating Sasana as Religion
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2020-09-01
The Buddha Was Not an Atheist
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2020-08-30
In strife and uncertainty: let us remember loving-kindness
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2020-08-30
The Zen Priest Goes to the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
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2020-08-29
Reflecting on John Wesley's "Manifesto"
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2020-08-28
My Secret Life: A Brief Meditation on The Way Into Depth
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2020-08-28
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
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2020-08-28
Attaining Nirvana - Complete Liberation
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2020-08-25
Is Buddhism a Religion?
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2020-08-23
Sweet Dreams
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2020-08-21
This Prison of Rebirth
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2020-08-19
Solely Engrossed In One Thing: Dàhuì's Last List of Don'ts
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2020-08-18
The Denial of Rebirth
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2020-08-16
Fiddlesticks: Recalling the First Colored Sound Cartoon
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2020-08-14
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ZEN KOAN
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2020-08-13
Understanding the Noble Quest
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2020-08-11
Walking the Talk: A Small Reflection on the Spiritual Life
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2020-08-11
Are the Mahayana Sutras Authentic?
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2020-08-09
DREAMS OF WALDEN POND: The Way of Liberal Religion
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2020-08-08
They Say the Buddha Said
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2020-08-03
A Brief Pause to Recall Nestorius, Late Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Church of the East
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2020-08-03
A Brief Pause to Recall Nestorius, Late Patriarch of Constantinople, the Church of the East, and the Luminous Religion
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2020-08-02
The Craziest Thing: The Zen Priest's Song of Awakening
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2020-08-01
LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND: Zen & the Work of Justice
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2020-07-31
The Bodhisattva Path: A Meditation on Soto Zen’s Three Pure Precepts
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2020-07-29
Toujours gai: Or, What to do in Hard Times
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2020-07-27
The Transgender Monk: Recalling the Remarkable Lobzang Jivaka
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2020-07-26
Finding the Messy Middle: How Archetypal Psychology Helped the Zen Priest Understand Soul
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2020-07-22
The Other Mary: Recalling Mary Magdalene, the First Apostle
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2020-07-19
In the rush to return to normal, can we pause instead?
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2020-07-14
"Please Sit By The Heater": On Following A Teacher's Instructions
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2020-07-13
"Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening & Embodied Realization" Review
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2020-07-12
Henry Thoreau & His Lovely Spiritual Practice
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2020-07-06
THE FIFTH OF JULY: A Buddhist Analysis of What’s Wrong, and What Might be Right.
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2020-07-05
A Festival of Radical Awakening: Socially Engaged Buddhism Today
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2020-07-05
FIFTY YEARS A ZEN PRIEST
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2020-06-28
THE LANGUAGE OF WONDER A Zen priest reflects on religious naturalism
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2020-06-23
Dàhuì's Second List of Don'ts for the Dog Kōan
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2020-06-21
A MEDITATION ON FATHERS & FATHERING IN HARD TIMES
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2020-06-17
Baizhang and the Fox
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2020-06-15
Zen’s Precepts in Five Minutes
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2020-06-14
Zen at the End of the World
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2020-06-13
Zen & Solving the Climate Crisis?
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2020-06-10
Zhaozhou and the Dog
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2020-06-08
ZEN & SOCIAL JUSTICE: Ten Rules of Thumb for Times of Crisis, Danger, & Possibility
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2020-06-07
WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED: A Zen Priest Reflects on the Nature of Sacred Spaces
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2020-06-06
Dàhuì's Don'ts: Still More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-06-04
Broken To Smithereens: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-06-03
A HOPEFUL DOUBT: A Zen priest considers Faith and Engagement
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2020-06-03
The Barrier That Has No Gate
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2020-05-31
RACISM, MURDER, & ZEN: Or, When is Silence Enough?
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2020-05-31
Break Through Is A Must: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-05-29
A Zen Priest Offers a Couple of Pointers on the Spiritual Way After Religion
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2020-05-28
Two Cheers for Religious Studies & a Pointer
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2020-05-26
"I'm Too Dumb" And Working The Edge Of The Precipice: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-05-25
A Footnote on the Spinoza Problem
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2020-05-23
THE CONNOISSEUR OF SADNESS: Exploring The Hurt & the Healing of Our Lives Through a Zen Koan
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2020-05-22
Paper Airplane
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2020-05-22
Tasteless Within The Tasty: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-05-20
The Five Hindrances
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2020-05-18
Uncertainty and Outbreaks
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2020-05-17
ARE ALL RELIGIONS ONE? A Zen Perspective
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2020-05-15
37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (video series)
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2020-05-11
MY RELIGION IS KINDNESS A Zen Meditation
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2020-05-09
Listen, Listen: Or, Rumi as a Zen Master
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2020-05-08
Zen in Five Minutes: WHAT ABOUT VISIONS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH?
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2020-05-07
Saving Energy is Gaining Energy: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-05-04
ZEN IN FIVE MINUTES: Is Zen a Religion?
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2020-05-01
Clicking and Snorting Across The Flood: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì
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2020-04-30
ZEN IN FIVE MINUTES: The Eight Worldly Concerns
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2020-04-29
HOW ZEN IS LIKE AA AND WEIGHT WATCHERS
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2020-04-27
ZEN IN FIVE MINUTES
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2020-04-24
Let Go of Making the Ground Flutter: More On The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì
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2020-04-23
WHAT WILL YOU DO? The Zen Koan of the Old Woman and the Burning Hut
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2020-04-23
What Did Jesus Drink?
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2020-04-22
The Good News as Magical Realism: The Zen Priest Reflects on Pasolini's Gospel According to St Matthew
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2020-04-19
A Zen Priest Thinks about the Parable of the Good Samaritan
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2020-04-18
PEACE BE UPON YOU. YOU ARE FREE. A Zen meditation
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2020-04-17
Great Uncertainty and the Real Work: More On The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì
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2020-04-11
SURFING THE LIMINAL A Dharma Talk for Therapists, Zen Practitioners, & Anyone Hoping to be Useful
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2020-04-10
EVERY DAY IS GOOD FRIDAY A Zen Meditation on a Christian Holy Day
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2020-04-10
You Have To Do It On Your Own: The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì
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2020-04-09
That is Enough: The Zen Priest's Small Poem for Maundy Thursday
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2020-04-06
The Most Revered and Most Reviled Zen Master Ever
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2020-04-05
ANTICIPATING PASSOVER Four Steps to Freedom
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2020-04-04
A CRICKET, SINGING Zen Commentary on Gateless Gate, Case 10
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2020-04-03
Some Zen Advice from Facebook
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2020-04-03
Is There Someone Who Does Not Get Sick?
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2020-03-30
The Zen Priest Shares a Small Snapshot from a Long Beach Walk During the Covid 19 Pandemic
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2020-03-28
TOWARD A SOULFUL ZEN A Review of Pamela Weiss’ “A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism”
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2020-03-26
With A Little Help From My Friends: My Zen Lineage
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2020-03-23
Recalling Willigis Jager, Benedictine Friar, and Zen Master
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2020-03-22
WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW Reflecting on the 23rd Psalm, Buddhism, Nondual Christianity, Broken Hearts, and a way of Intimacy
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2020-03-21
AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG Investigating the Zen Koan of a Non-Attained Buddha
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2020-03-15
REVELATIONS OF A PLAGUE YEAR Or, Dreaming the Apocalypse
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2020-03-14
BODHIDHARMA SIGHED: Zen Comments on the Gateless Gate, Case 41
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2020-03-11
The Coronavirus is coming - Some thoughts from Hong Kong
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2020-03-09
The Bodhisattva Way and a Robe of Many Colors: Commenting on a Zen Koan
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2020-03-08
Householder Zen, Priests, and An Experiment Begins in Australia
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2020-03-01
THE BIRTH OF GOD And What It Can Mean for Us
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2020-02-29
Xizhong and his Magical Cart: Comments on a Zen Koan
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2020-02-25
Zen & the Establishment of cultures of awakening
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2020-02-23
ZEN & THE WEST: Nearly Random Thoughts on Clerical Marriage in Buddhism, Women teaching, and the Rise of Householder Zen
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2020-02-19
VOTING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE IN MIND: A Citizen's Guide
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2020-02-17
Giordano Bruno is Burned at the Stake
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2020-02-16
MANY LOVES A Small Reflection on the Spiritual Life
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2020-02-15
Enter Christmas Humphreys, Western Buddhist Ancestor
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2020-02-11
Thinking of Shunryu Suzuki
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2020-02-09
Zen & the Art of Foolishness
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2020-02-03
CHANGE & NOT KNOWING: Darwin, Huxley, & the Shape of Naturalistic Religion
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2020-02-01
Wishing all a Blessed Imbolc & a Lovely Feast for the Lady Brigid
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2020-01-30
Introducing the Deep Way: Three Aspects to an Authentic Spiritual Practice
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2020-01-27
THE MYSTERIES OF LOVE: The Three Eras of Universalism
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2020-01-27
Zen Flows Through Repetition in the Teacher-Student Relationship
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2020-01-25
Recalling the Buddhist poet and general all around trouble maker, Su Dongpo
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2020-01-23
Zen Master Juzhi & the Matter of the Finger That Wasn't There
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2020-01-21
Eating the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: A Zen Commentary
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2020-01-21
Our Original Face: A Zen Master's Invitation
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2020-01-20
Zen Meditation: Basic Instructions
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2020-01-18
Recalling the Great Hakuin Ekaku
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2020-01-15
THE PRICE OF POTATOES IN IDAHO A Small Meditation on a traditional Zen Koan
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2020-01-14
A Feast for the Ass
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2020-01-12
Enter the Swami
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2020-01-12
Enter the Swami: A Taste of Vivekananda's Teachings
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2020-01-11
Recalling that Explorer of the Human HeartMind, William James
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2020-01-09
The Zen Priest Recalls an Old Story & Thinks It Points to Something
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2020-01-09
The Zen Priest Recalls an Old Story & Thinks It Points to Something
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2020-01-05
STARTING AGAIN A Meditation on Calendars, New Year’s Resolutions, and Possibility
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2020-01-05
Shambhala Buddhist Community Faces New Allegations in Chapman Student Investigation
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2020-01-02
Ernest & Dorothy Hunt: Early Links in the Golden Chain of Buddhism Coming West
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2020-01-02
The Lingering Radiance of Harada Daiun Sogaku
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2020-01-01
The Zen Priest's Briefest Meditation for the New Year