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2021-12-31
Why Not Become Fire: A Meditation for New Year's Eve
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2021-12-30
The Tiniest Recollection of the Mad Monk
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2021-12-29
HELLO GOODBYE: Living in the Kali Yuga with a Little Help from the Beatles
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2021-12-28
Bodhisattva Fu's Poems on the Four States
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2021-12-27
A Feast for John the Beloved
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2021-12-26
The Day After Christmas
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2021-12-25
Christmas Letter, 2021
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2021-12-24
A Meditation for Christmas Eve
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2021-12-23
A Hindu Appreciation of Christmas
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2021-12-22
Eighteen Zen Koans from the Western Tradition
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2021-12-21
A Song for the Winter Solstice
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2021-12-20
Noticing Mrs Luther & the Dawn of the Ministerial Spouse
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2021-12-19
EPIPHANIES & THEOPHANIES A Meditation on the Way to Christmas
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2021-12-18
Biko
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2021-12-17
WHAT IS GOD? A Small Meditation on Zen, Rumi, Coleman Barks, and the Mysteries of the Heart
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2021-12-16
Arthur C Clarke: A Small Celebration
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2021-12-15
Hokyozanmai: The Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi
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2021-12-14
Recalling John of the Cross: Mystic of the Dark Night
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2021-12-12
The Death of Harada Daiun Sogaku Roshi: 60th Year Memorial
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2021-12-12
Recalling Daiun Sogaku Harada & the New Koan Way
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2021-12-11
Doubt & Faith: A Zen Meditation
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2021-12-10
Recalling Thomas Merton and his death, and a personal pilgrimage
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2021-12-09
Bodhidharma Puts the Mind at Rest (Gateless Gate, Case 41)
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2021-12-08
Waking Up to the Great Mess: A Small Rohatsu Meditation
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2021-12-08
The Bodhi Tree in Fayette, Maine: A Dharma Talk for Rohatsu
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2021-12-07
AWAKENING: A Zen Reflection
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2021-12-06
Noting the Birth of the Christian Mystic Evelyn Underhill
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2021-12-05
Faustus Socinus is born, and with him a Naturalistic Christianity
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2021-12-04
Rilke dances into the world
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2021-12-03
Defining Religion: Or, a Fool's Errand
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2021-12-02
Recalling Wind Bell: The Best of Zen Ephemera
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2021-12-01
A word in favor of spiritual rather than religious
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2021-11-30
Toward a Naturalistic Traditionalism
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2021-11-29
A Zen Meditation on the First Day of Hanukkah
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2021-11-28
A Feast for the Holy Sovereigns
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2021-11-27
Of Snakes, Ladders, and the Well: a Zen Meditation
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2021-11-27
My Buddhist Christian Feast Day!
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2021-11-26
The End of Zen in Japan?
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2021-11-26
Mr Yamada's Zen Enlightenment Experience
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2021-11-26
Mr Yamada's Enlightenment Experience
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2021-11-25
A Song of Thanksgiving
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2021-11-24
Keiji Nishitani, Zen's Philosopher of Nothingness
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2021-11-22
Fifty Eight Years Ago an American President was Murdered
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2021-11-21
GIVING THANKS: A Meditation for an Antifa Sunday
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2021-11-20
Leo Tolstoy's Buddhist Christian Mashup
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2021-11-19
Syllable & Sound: A Small Meditation on Zen's Great Middle Way
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2021-11-18
The Four Bodhisattva Vows
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2021-11-17
Recalling Hilda of Whitby, the Saint with the Crozier
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2021-11-16
A Small Appreciation of Alan Watts
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2021-11-15
WHAT REMAINS: The Bishop reflects on Krazy Kat, the Heart Sutra, and the Nature of Love
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2021-11-14
Noting When a Dwarf Planet Joins the Family
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2021-11-13
In Pursuit of False Gods: A Small Meditation on the Golden Calf
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2021-11-12
Noting the Birth of the Unitarian Universalist theologian James Luther Adams
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2021-11-11
Noting the Birth of the Jesuit Zen Master Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
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2021-11-10
All hail the Goddess of Reason (Quick, before she's gone...)
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2021-11-09
Bodhidharma on the Twofold Entrance to the Tao
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2021-11-07
The Brightness Between: A Small Zen Meditation
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2021-11-06
A Meditation on the Golden Rule
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2021-11-05
The Gateless Gate Opens Wide
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2021-11-04
King Tut!
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2021-11-03
Of Richard Hooker, His Three-Legged Stool, and a Dream for a Progressive Zen Buddhism
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2021-11-02
MU: The Zen Koan as a Love Letter
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2021-11-02
MU: A Love Letter to a Zen Koan
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2021-11-01
An Ancient Soto Master's Praise for the Record of Linji
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2021-11-01
All Saints & the Masks of God
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2021-10-31
The Great Intimate
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2021-10-30
Happy Birthday: A Buddhist Meditation
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2021-10-29
Noting the First Zen Master to Visit America: Soyen Shaku
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2021-10-28
Anne Sullivan & the Making of a Miracle Worker
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2021-10-27
Certainty and Not Knowing
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2021-10-26
Ida B Wells: American Hero
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2021-10-25
TRUE HEART RISING: Jesus & Ikkyu, Scrooge & Tiny Tim
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2021-10-24
Recalling the Archangel Raphael & Happy Meetings
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2021-10-23
Recalling the Western Zen Pioneer Ruth Fuller Sasaki
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2021-10-22
Prophecies of the End: Dreams of Justice and Mercy and a Goodness Without End
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2021-10-21
Recalling Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sometime Unitarian, Once and Later Anglican, and All Around Romantic
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2021-10-20
Recalling the Amazing Randi
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2021-10-19
The Prophet is Born
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2021-10-18
Thank You, D. T. Suzuki
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2021-10-17
BLOOD-STAINED EDEN: A Meditation on Despair and Hope and Our Human Condition
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2021-10-16
John Brown Leads his Assault on Harper's Ferry
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2021-10-15
A Feast for Teresa, Mystic & Founder
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2021-10-14
Dr Ambedkar Converts to Buddhism
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2021-10-13
Recalling the Buddhist Founder Nichiren & His Many Followers
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2021-10-12
Noting Aleister Crowley's Birthday
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2021-10-11
SECOND THURSDAYS WITH JAMES: Conversations with Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist Minister James Ishmael ford
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2021-10-11
Nestorian Christianity: A Survey of materials and scholarship concerning Nestorianism / East-Syriac Christianity in China
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2021-10-10
DO YOU REMEMBER: A Buddhist Reflection by Robert Aitken Roshi
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2021-10-09
A Feast for Dionysius the (Pseudo) Areopagite
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2021-10-08
The Zen Priest Considers Crowd Control in Religion and by the State And Dreams an Alternative
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2021-10-07
Interfaith Dialogue: Robert Thurman and Matthew Fox on Cultivating Peace in Difficult Times
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2021-10-06
Thinking of Thor Heyerdahl & Kon Tiki
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2021-10-05
A Zen Meditation on the Four Abodes
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2021-10-04
A Feast for Francis: The Zen Priest Reflects on a Medieval Christian Saint
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2021-10-03
The Householder Vimalakirti Opens the Nondual Gate
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2021-10-02
Mohandas Gandhi: A Small Reflection on the Great Soul
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2021-10-01
Eating on the Beach in Long Beach
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2021-09-30
The Song of Rumi: The Mystical Heart for Our Time
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2021-09-29
Thinking of Michael Servetus
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2021-09-29
Miguel de Cervantes Takes the Stage
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2021-09-28
The Sage Confucius is Born
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2021-09-27
MAGIC LANDS: Zen, Makyo, and the Loosening of the Bonds of Perception
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2021-09-26
T S Eliot and the Religious Quest
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2021-09-25
LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A Meditation on the Bodhisattva Way
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2021-09-24
A Feast for Our Lady of Walsingham
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2021-09-23
The Zen priest considers Tradition and a Naturalistic Perennialism
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2021-09-22
Much Ado About Nothing: Troubles When First Tasting Zen's Teachings for Oneself
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2021-09-21
Requiem for my Father
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2021-09-20
A Taoist Gospel: Holmes Welch's Parallel Teachings from Jesus & the Dao De Ching
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2021-09-19
SURPRISED BY JOY: A Meditation on Kensho in Zen, Buddhism, and Literature
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2021-09-18
A Passing Meditation on Edward Pusey, the Rise of the High Church Party in Anglicanism, Followed by a Sharp Digression Thinking About a Christianity That Could Be
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2021-09-17
Asking for Help: Zen & Prayers & Kanzeon
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2021-09-16
The Buddha Holds Up a Flower: A Meditation on the Birth of Religions
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2021-09-15
ZEN'S TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: Three Early English Language Commentaries
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2021-09-14
Chop Suey & Table Fellowship: A Meditation
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2021-09-13
Thinking of Phineas Gage, His Personal Horror, and What it Means About our Humanity
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2021-09-12
Synesius of Cyrene & the Way Between
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2021-09-11
Twenty Years After Nine Eleven
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2021-09-10
Recalling Mary Oliver: A Zen Teacher's Teacher
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2021-09-09
Noticing My Fifteen Years as a Blogger
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2021-09-09
Dreaming California
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2021-09-08
Mr Roddenberry's Vision Goes Where No Television Show Had Gone Before
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2021-09-07
The Secret Teachings of Zen Buddhism
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2021-09-06
Vow and Grasping in the Zen Life: A Very Small Meditation
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2021-09-05
Recalling the Unitarian Bishop Gregorio Aglipay
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2021-09-04
Rough Edges and Scissorhands
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2021-09-04
Why Zen? A Small Meditation on the Smallest of Things
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2021-09-03
From the Desert Mothers: A Dozen Sayings of Amma Syncletica of Alexandria & An Audio Text
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2021-09-02
A Word to Zen Students on the Necessity of Reading
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2021-08-29
Facing the Wall, Facing the Buddha
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2021-08-28
BURNING, BURNING, BURNING, BURNING: Zen at the End of a World
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2021-08-23
Was John Wesley Consecrated an Orthodox Bishop?
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2021-08-22
THE WORK OF CHANGE: A Zen Reflection
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2021-08-20
Hold Beings To Be Precious
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2021-08-18
The Shōwa Dispute About True Faith
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2021-08-16
The Four Forces
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2021-08-13
The Zen Master Dahui Tells Us Who Achieved Perfect and Complete Enlightenment
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2021-08-12
Shantideva Had No Friends
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2021-08-12
The Record of Empty Hall: Reviews, Talks, Interview
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2021-08-11
Zen's Song of Awakening: the Shodoka
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2021-08-08
Conspiracy, Trust, and other Faith Stories: A Zen Talk
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2021-08-05
Wrapped in Silence: A Zen Reflection
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2021-08-04
The Empty and the Open: Pointers on the Zen Way in a Real World
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2021-08-02
What Is Zen?
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2021-07-26
Think of me as a Pseudo-Jungian: An Appreciation of Carl Jung on his 146th Birthday
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2021-07-24
A Small Zen Reflection on John Newton's Enlightenment Experience
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2021-07-19
Zen Master Robert Aitken
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2021-07-18
WHO WOULD YOU BE BURIED WITH?
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2021-07-17
The Zen priest recalls a poem written for his sixty-ninth birthday.
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2021-07-17
ANNOUNCING A COMBINED ON LINE AND IN PERSON ZEN RETREAT (July 29-August 1st)
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2021-07-16
Be A Student: Some Aspects of Beginning a Zen Practice
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2021-07-15
Mr Emerson Proclaims a New Infidelity
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2021-07-14
Aldous Huxley Reflects on Zen's Famous Ten Oxherding Pictures
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2021-07-07
WHEN LOOKING FOR A ZEN TEACHER: A Reflection on Spiritual Teachers in General, and Zen Teachers in Particular
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2021-07-04
Home Leaving and Letting Go, Real and Imagined, on the Zen Way
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2021-07-03
ON OPENING THE WAY: Foundations of a Spiritual Life
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2021-07-03
ON OPENING THE WAY: Foundations of a Spiritual Life
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2021-07-03
Recalling Thomas the Doubter, Patron Saint of Not Knowing
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2021-07-02
Entering the Intimate Way: A Smallest Meditation on Beginning a Zen Practice, Why & How
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2021-06-30
Mushim's Buddhist Word for the Day is Mudita, Sympathetic Joy
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2021-06-28
The Invasion of the Peacocks: A Small Meditation on Meditation
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2021-06-28
When considering whether all religions are in some way one, the smart money says no. And, yet
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2021-06-27
Not One, Not Two: Zen Between the Christians and the Buddhists
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2021-06-26
The Zen Priest Travels With Jan & Has Various Adventures
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2021-06-25
Xutang's Blurb for Dogen's Best Seller
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2021-06-22
For Pride Month: Our 2015 Interview with La Sarmiento on Intersections of Gender, Identity, and Buddhism
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2021-06-22
Sometimes I Call it the Great Empty: A Mind Bubble on Zen in the West
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2021-06-21
Zen Conversations: 42 Zen Teachers talk... a short excerpt
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2021-06-13
Water and Light Soaking into the Earth: Seeking a Common Ground for all Religions
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2021-06-09
Rumi's Guest House: Three Versions of a Spiritual Text
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2021-06-06
Purple Hearts: My World War II Dream
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2021-06-03
Help Wanted: We're Creating a progressive and open Zen community in Long Beach & Orange County
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2021-05-30
The Disobedience Sutra, the Duty Sutra, and in the End, a Sutra of Interdependence
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2021-05-28
The Second Arrow
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2021-05-23
Continuity & Change: The Zen Priest Revisits Himself From Ten Years Before
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2021-05-16
Zen Priest Received as Minister Affiliated with a Unitarian Universalist congregation
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2021-05-16
SINGLE BOOK ZEN: Zen Teachers Recommend a Single Book on Zen
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2021-05-09
My Three Mothers: A Small Meditation
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2021-05-08
Hurray for Burritos!
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2021-05-03
Pilgrimages: A Mind Bubble on Spiritual Journeys
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2021-05-01
The Flowing Bridge: Exploring a Zen koan and the Mysteries of Everyday Life
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2021-04-30
Creating Community: Are you aging? Are you a Buddhist or a Unitarian Universalist? An old lefty? Maybe this is for you.
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2021-04-21
I'm Too Busy to Meditate
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2021-04-19
Poetry & the Beginner's Mind
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2021-04-18
AMONG THE SNAKES & DRAGONS: Mind Bubbles on North American Zen Lives in the Twenty-First Century
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2021-04-18
Grieving and Death
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2021-04-16
The Zen Priest Considers the Secrets of the Religious and the Spiritual
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2021-04-12
The Zen Priest Discovers he is a Post-Secular Buddhist
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2021-04-09
Smoke, Spice, and Soul: A Recipe for Collard Green & Andouille Soup, With Cornmeal Dumplings
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2021-04-08
Recalling the Birth of the Buddha: Celebrating Hanamatsuri
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2021-04-03
Buddhist Resources for Memorial Services
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2021-04-01
Cyber Zen: Practicing Awakening in These Very Times
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2021-03-29
The Short Course in Zen: Five Books Plus One
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2021-03-27
The Fat Man and the Ox
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2021-03-23
PRACTICING WITH HOUSEHOLDER KOANS
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2021-03-22
YOUR BEST SEASON: A Zen Meditation on Spring
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2021-03-21
THE ZEN PRACTICE OF KOAN INTROSPECTION
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2021-03-08
FINDING MY RELIGION: The Zen Priest Reflects on Buddhism, Christianity, and the Currents of a Living Spirituality
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2021-03-05
Soto Zen Liturgical Forms: A Small Miscellany of YouTube Videos
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2021-03-04
Zen and the Long Haul
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2021-03-03
Third Way Zen: A Small Mind Bubble
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2021-03-02
Originally Not A Single Dharma
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2021-02-26
Soul as the Third Body of the Buddha
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2021-02-23
The Nature of Mind
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2021-02-21
Sort of a Dance: A Meditation on the Lies We Tell Ourselves, And Hints at a Better Way
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2021-02-17
T. S. Eliot & His Secret Religion
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2021-02-16
Niutou Farong and the Song of Mind
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2021-02-15
The Buddha Dies: A Small Zen Meditation
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2021-02-15
Silent Illumination: A Vital New Expression of An Ancient Tradition
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2021-02-13
MYSTERIES OF THE INTIMATE WAY: A Buddhist Meditation on Valentine's Day
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2021-02-12
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
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2021-02-09
An Invitation for the Patriarch
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2021-02-08
The Great Peace: Or, Anticipating Nirvana
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2021-02-05
Neil Douglas Klotz' WILD WISDOM
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2021-02-02
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness
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2021-01-31
The Zen priest Wishes Thomas Merton a Happy Birthday
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2021-01-30
What is Zen Meditation?
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2021-01-25
The Buddha Ascends the Platform
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2021-01-25
The Record of Empty Hall: a Selection, a Book Launch Reading, and More
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2021-01-24
SHELTER FOR THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN A Sermon for the Religious Left
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2021-01-18
Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Incredible!
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2021-01-14
Standing up to Lies: Can America Emerge from Trump's Abuse and Gaslighting?
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2021-01-11
Reasons We Don't Meditate
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2021-01-08
Disclosing Zen Insight: A Great Flower Blossom Net
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2021-01-04
Three Kinds of Laziness
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2021-01-03
OCEANS FLOWING IN YOUR BODY A Communion Hymn
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2021-01-03
WHAT ROUGH BEAST The Zen Priest Reflects on the New Year, And Makes Some Resolutions