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2023-12-31
Ritual and Liturgy in Zen
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2023-12-29
Zen Monasteries, Training Temples, Zen Centers, & Sanghas
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2023-12-27
Walking: An Essay by Henry David Thoreau
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2023-12-25
Wishing you a Blessed Newtonmas!
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2023-12-24
Songs of the Christmas Truce
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2023-12-23
Samadhi and Zen
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2023-12-21
A Meditation on Christmas Ghosts
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2023-12-18
Is Zen a Religion?
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2023-12-15
On Breathing and Zen Practice
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2023-12-15
How Smartphone's Create Addictive Patterns And How to Detox
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2023-12-14
What Do Buddhists Do During Christmas?
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2023-12-13
Attachment, Hatred, and the Darkness of Unknowing
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2023-12-12
Can Buddhism Save the World?
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2023-12-12
Reducing Stress Caused by Visiting Family Over the Holidays
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2023-12-12
Make Life Meaningful
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2023-12-11
Four Thoughts That Change The Mind
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2023-12-11
Faith, Doubt, and Energy in Zen
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2023-12-07
Literalism and Dreams in Religion: Thinking of Saint Nicholas and the Coming of Christmas
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2023-12-05
How to do "The Emotional Work" and Lower Your Anxiety in Significant Ways
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2023-12-05
How Self-Compassion Helps Us Pivot When We Are Spiraling Down Emotionally
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2023-12-03
The First Encounter Between a Jesuit and a Zen Master
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2023-12-03
Wonhyo, Buddhist Folk Hero of Korea
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2023-12-01
Be Still and Know. Is It Possible?
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2023-11-28
When the Buddha Became a Christian Saint
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2023-11-27
A Brief History of Zen Buddhism Come West
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2023-11-25
A Zen Meditation on our American Thanksgiving
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2023-11-24
Keiji Nishitani and Zen: A Brief Reflection
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2023-11-22
A New Soto Zen Association for North America
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2023-11-21
A Faithful Skeptic: Margaret Fuller's Transcendentalist "Credo"
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2023-11-20
Does Meditation Help You Have a Better Life?
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2023-11-19
Guidelines for Seated Meditation: A Traditional Zen Text
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2023-11-16
Anagarika Dharmapala, a Missionary for Buddhism
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2023-11-15
On the Spirituality of Duty: A Zen Teacher's Meditation
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2023-11-12
Jesus Visited India and Tibet?
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2023-11-08
Faith Visits Provide Experiences Of A Lifetime
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2023-11-07
Remebering the Other Guy: Alfred Russel Wallace
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2023-11-07
Remembering the Other Guy: Alfred Russel Wallace
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2023-11-06
To What Does the One Return? A Zen Meditation
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2023-11-05
Speaking the Language of Dragons: Zen's Gateless Gate
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2023-11-05
Henry Steel Olcott, the "White Buddhist"
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2023-10-29
Recalling the Zen Ancestor for the West: Soyen Shaku
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2023-10-28
Recalling our Western Zen Ancestor R H Blyth
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2023-10-27
RECORDANDO A ROSITA LA REMACHADORA: Y Otros Pensamientos Que Surgen por el Día de Igualdad de las Mujeres
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2023-10-21
A Zen Meditation on Lying Down as the Buddha
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2023-10-20
Week of Prayer for World Peace (Day 5) Buddhist Prayers
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2023-10-19
The Great Invitation: Thinking and Not Thinking in Zen Meditation
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2023-10-16
The Four Forces
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2023-10-15
Love and Compassion (recorded talk)
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2023-10-15
Faith & Mind: Recalling Zen's Third Ancestor & That wonderful Poem of the Nondual Way
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2023-10-12
Hafiz's Little Book of Life
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2023-10-10
Six Transcendent Virtues
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2023-10-09
The Boy Who Is the Bogd
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2023-10-08
The Buddha's Last Words, Unpacked
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2023-10-07
William Laud's Anglican Reformation of the Reformation
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2023-10-06
Losing My Mindfulness: A Travel Story of Mental Health and Spirituality
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2023-10-04
The Divine Madness of Francis of Assisi
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2023-10-02
A Complicated Banquet: Notes from the American Zen Teachers Association gathering in 2023
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2023-10-01
Rebirth
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2023-10-01
Meetings With Remarkable Women: Annie Besant
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2023-09-30
Rumi Is Born into the World
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2023-09-29
Noting Buddhist Meditation Master S N Goenka
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2023-09-28
Beneath the Sands of Mes Aynak
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2023-09-26
That holy spirit, always resting wherever it wishes
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2023-09-26
Abie Nathan, John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Yom Kippur - Looking Back Fifty Years at Israel in 1973
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2023-09-26
Four Signs of Codependence
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2023-09-25
Following Jesus: The Way Of The Bodhisattva
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2023-09-24
The Dance of Welcoming in Spiritual Communities
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2023-09-22
‘Journey to the West’: Why the Classic Chinese Novel’s Mischievous Monkey – and His Very Human Quest – Has Inspired Centuries of Adaptations
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2023-09-21
Nagarjuna on Generosity
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2023-09-21
Nalanda: The First University
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2023-09-20
The Tenfold Virtuous Path (feat. Nagarjuna)
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2023-09-19
Nagarjuna's Six Things to Recall
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2023-09-18
The Buddha on Doubt and Free Inquiry
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2023-09-17
A Word of Advice for a Unitarian Universalist Congregation
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2023-09-15
Can You Help the Rime Center?
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2023-09-14
Reflecting on my Gurus: Heard, Huxley, and Isherwood. A Small Appreciation.
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2023-09-12
Aldous Huxley's Outline of Perennialism: The Minimum Working Hypothesis
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2023-09-11
Knowing We're Alive and Knowing We will Die: A Meditation on a Television Show
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2023-09-10
A Small Meditation on the Collapse of Religions and What Might Come Next
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2023-09-09
Abba Poemen: The Bright Star of the Desert
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2023-09-08
The Questions of Naga King Sagara
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2023-09-05
Reflecting on Blogging for Seventeen Years as Monkey Mind
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2023-09-02
Noting the 50th Anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien's Death
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2023-09-01
Mind Bubbles Regarding the Episcopal Cheyenne Saint David Pendleton Oakerhater
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2023-09-01
Transforming Adversity (recorded talk)
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2023-08-30
Zen Teacher Teshin Matthew Sweger
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2023-08-29
Amos, a Presbyterian minister, and the promise of incarnational imagination
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2023-08-28
If I had to pick between Augustine of Hippo & Abba Moses the Black, well, there's no contest
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2023-08-27
Women's Equality Day & That Image of Rosie the Riveter
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2023-08-25
The Ancient Secret of the Dunhuang Cave
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2023-08-25
Deescalating Feelings of Anger and Frustration During Times of Conflict with your Partner
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2023-08-25
Brene Brown Gives Advice on Healthy Ways to Feel Our Emotions Such as Anxiety, Insecurity and Disappointment and More
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2023-08-24
Thinking of Prayer Books and Liturgies and the Spiritual Life
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2023-08-23
A Briefest Meditation on Quietism and Zen Meditation
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2023-08-22
When Life Punches You In The Face (recorded talk)
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2023-08-16
The First Color Cartoon Film
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2023-08-15
The Awakened Heart (recorded talk)
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2023-08-15
Recalling Zen Master Keizan Jokin
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2023-08-14
How to Write Your Own Gospel
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2023-08-12
The Quest for Novelty in the Spiritual Life
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2023-08-11
Considering the Material, the Spiritual, and Another Place
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2023-08-09
Tips for Building Your Sense of Self-Worth with Simple Mindfulness Approaches that Really Work!
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2023-08-08
Pointers on the Way
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2023-08-08
A Tale of the Buddha's Tooth
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2023-08-07
Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teaching of Tangen Harada Roshi
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2023-08-06
A True Tale of the Zen Life
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2023-08-01
Some Thoughts on Compassion
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2023-07-30
SPIRITUALITY FOR RELIGIOUS RADICALS
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2023-07-29
Zen's Eighth Grave Precept
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2023-07-29
New Vine Ghost Site for Dosho's Creative Endeavors (and other things)
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2023-07-28
The Meaning of Faith
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2023-07-25
The 100 Most Holy Places On Earth: 40-31
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2023-07-23
The Little Toy Temple On Nassau Street
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2023-07-21
Remembering Colonel Ingersoll
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2023-07-19
Gnawing Through Qiánfēng’s Three Illnesses and Two Lights
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2023-07-17
Ranking The Top 50-41 Most Holy Places On Earth
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2023-07-17
Spilling the Beans: Or, What I learned by living for seventy-five years
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2023-07-16
A Brief Universalist Spiritual Reading Guide
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2023-07-15
Engaging Ancient Spiritual Texts
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2023-07-15
How to Train While Dying (recorded talk)
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2023-07-14
A Meditation on Naturalistic Religion
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2023-07-13
Zen and the Wounded Heart
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2023-07-11
Recalling the Ancient Christian Universalist Bardaisan
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2023-07-10
Five Hundred Lives as a Cat: A Zen Reflection on the Koan "Mehitabel's Song"
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2023-07-09
Dreaming God, Dreaming Trinities
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2023-07-05
Confessions of a Ministry Between Worlds
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2023-07-04
Henry Moves into a hut on Walden Pond
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2023-07-03
Three Reasons I love Thomas the Doubter
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2023-07-02
The Secret Teachings of the Heart Sutra
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2023-07-01
Keep Me In Your Heart: A Meditation on Death
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2023-07-01
Remembering a drive down the coast from Seattle to Los Angeles
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2023-06-29
"Why, Oh Why, Is My Practice Not Progressing?"
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2023-06-29
A Saint for Not Knowing: Thomas Huxley, Agnosticism, Buddhism, and an Emerging Naturalistic Spirituality
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2023-06-28
Thinking of John Wesley, and his Manifesto, and, maybe, a Call for our Times
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2023-06-27
Catholic Spots Make Strong Showing In 100 Most Holy Places on Earth Rankings
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2023-06-25
You Don't Need to Work Harder to Soothe Your Anxiety, You Just Need to Work Smarter
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2023-06-25
Acceptance is Letting go of the Struggle with Reality
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2023-06-25
Buddhism and Science on Our Mind
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2023-06-17
Recalling the Buddhist meditation master Ajahn Chah
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2023-06-17
The Afterlife of the Bamiyan Buddhas
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2023-06-16
Walking into the wrong funeral, and crying with the loved ones: A small Zen Meditation
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2023-06-15
Buddha versus Jesus: Comparing 4 Truths in Socrates' Children
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2023-06-14
Thinking of Edward FitzGerald and his rendition of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat.
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2023-06-13
Herman Hesse's "Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse" A Review
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2023-06-13
The Awakened Heart
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2023-06-12
Recalling the Remarkable Harriet Martineau, Transcendentalist, & Mother of Sociology
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2023-06-11
A ZEN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST MEDITATION RETREAT (in Person & Online)
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2023-06-09
The First Buddhist Same-Sex Wedding
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2023-06-09
Quietism as a Spiritual Method & Quietism as a Spiritual Mistake
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2023-06-08
I Was Wrong About Brad Warner and Angel City Zen Center
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2023-06-08
Actions to Avoid (recorded talk)
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2023-06-07
A Teacher Appears....?
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2023-06-04
How To Incorporate Religion into Intermittent Fasting
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2023-06-04
The Great Invitation: A Meditation on Queering Religion
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2023-05-31
A Buddhist Perspective on Healing Trauma
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2023-05-31
Messing With Yasutani Roshi Again and Again: Don't Sit Down in the World of Awakening
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2023-05-31
Unity and Diversity in Religion
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2023-05-30
Dreaming Joan of Arc: A Zen Meditation on Cross Dressing and the Possibilities of a New World
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2023-05-28
The Spirit Rests Where it Will: A Zen Meditation on Pentecost and the Mystery of the Holy Spirit
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2023-05-25
Tina Turner's Buddhism
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2023-05-25
Remembering Ralph Waldo Emerson & Transcendentalism on his 220th Birthday
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2023-05-23
The Vigorous Nature of Zen Work
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2023-05-23
Asking ChatGPT for a Zen Joke
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2023-05-22
The Truth about Negative Self-Talk, Shame and Body Image and How to Move Beyond It All
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2023-05-22
A ChatGPT Homily on Love in the style of James Ishmael Ford
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2023-05-21
A Feast for Helena, mother of Constantine: A Mind Bubble on What Makes a Saint
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2023-05-21
A Feast for Helena, mother of Constantine: A Mind Bubble on Saints and Pilgrimages
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2023-05-20
Saint Lucifer: A Buddhist Meditation on a Name
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2023-05-19
Sweating for the Gods: How Hot Yoga is Blending Religion, Pop Culture, and Fitness Into a New Spiritual Movement
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2023-05-18
The Mystery of the Emerald Buddha
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2023-05-15
Dreaming Emily Dickinson
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2023-05-14
Dreaming of My Three Mothers
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2023-05-14
Mary Baker Eddy and America's Last Witchcraft Trial
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2023-05-13
LIKE A SHOT OF HEROIN: Jack Kerouac on Buddhist meditation
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2023-05-10
God as a Zen Koan or Huatou
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2023-05-09
Yunmen's Sound and Color
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2023-05-08
20 Religious Symbols: What Do They Mean?
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2023-05-07
Domovoy
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2023-05-06
Sex & Zen: Two Dharma Talks Investigating Zen Buddhism's Third Grave Precept
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2023-05-05
Pray to Live in Prayer
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2023-05-03
Is Individualism in Christianity a Bad Thing? Part 4
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2023-05-02
The King James Bible and the Power of a Dreaming God
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2023-05-01
Who Can Benefit From a Meditation Practice?
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2023-04-30
Walpurgisnacht & the Rites of Spring
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2023-04-28
The Dawn of Nichiren Buddhism: Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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2023-04-25
Why Identifying Your Emotions Helps You Feel More Empowered
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2023-04-25
George Herriman, Creator of Krazy Kat: A Mind Bubble
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2023-04-24
What is the Heart of Zen? Reflections on the Transmission of Luminosity
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2023-04-23
THE MOTHER OF MY HEART: Reflections on the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California
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2023-04-19
Zen, God, and Doubt: Encountering the Mystery
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2023-04-18
A Robot's Dream: the Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing
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2023-04-18
"Suck My Tongue" Analysing the Dalai Lama's Behaviour
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2023-04-17
Sri Nisargadatta's Zen Hinduism
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2023-04-16
Some Zen Words for End Times
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2023-04-13
The Sikh Tradition: A Small Celebration
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2023-04-12
How to Soothe Ourselves with Mindfulness When We Have Intrusive Thoughts or Worry
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2023-04-12
The Unity of Religions
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2023-04-11
Video of Dalai Lama Asking a Child to Suck His Tongue is a Cry for Torah
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2023-04-11
Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver: Reflecting on the making of an audiobook
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2023-04-11
Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver: Reflecting on the making of an audiobook
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2023-04-10
Karma Americana
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2023-04-10
A Black Lacquer Person Runs Through the Night: The Sudden Awakening of Keizan Jokin
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2023-04-10
Islam's Future in Kathmandu
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2023-04-09
DYING & RISING: A Zen Reflection on Easter
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2023-04-07
Every Day is the Good Day: A Zen Meditation on Good Friday
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2023-04-06
Intimate Friendship: "When You Sing, I Respond; When I Sing, You Clap Hands"
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2023-04-06
Zen, Maundy Thursday, and the Mysteries of Memory and Communion
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2023-04-04
Understanding the Fawning Response During Sexual Assault
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2023-04-02
How to Prepare and Deliver a (Zen) Dharma Talk
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2023-04-01
NOT KILLING: A Consideration of Zen’s First Grave Precept
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2023-04-01
April Thank You!
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2023-03-30
The Story of Master Huineng
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2023-03-30
Not Looking Toward The Peace Of The Innermost Mind
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2023-03-29
Nelson Mandela Raises his Fist: A Meditation on a Zen Koan
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2023-03-28
Zen Comments on an Ancient Koan: Baofu and Changqing Go on a Picnic
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2023-03-28
(Zen) Buddhism and the Coming Revolution
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2023-03-27
Intimate Knowing: How To Work With Thinking In Zazen
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2023-03-27
Zen and Recovery: The Zombie Apocalypse
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2023-03-27
Recalling the Western Zen Master Charlotte Joko Beck
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2023-03-26
How the Meiji Era Changed Japanese Buddhism
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2023-03-26
A Swastika Within A Circle
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2023-03-26
Marking the First Publication of the Book of Mormon
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2023-03-26
HELL IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION : Some Notes for a Larger Reflection on Universalism
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2023-03-24
Buddhist Nuns of Japan vs. the Patriarchy
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2023-03-23
Does Paul Quote Jesus? A Quick Look & a Fascinating Observation
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2023-03-21
Rosie the Riveter as an Icon of Human Possibility
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2023-03-20
Plucking a Blade of Grass: The Wondrous Dharma of Miàodào
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2023-03-19
The Awakening of Yaeko Iwasaki: No Place Not Known
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2023-03-18
The First Japanese Buddhist Nuns: A Contentious Story
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2023-03-17
Recalling Gertrude, Patron Saint of Cats
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2023-03-15
Chinese Buddhist Nuns: A History of Perseverance
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2023-03-15
Why Knowing Your Enneagram Type Leads to Greater Self-Awareness and More Clarity in Relationships
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2023-03-14
Establish Yourself In The Ground Of Truth
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2023-03-12
The Determined Buddhist Nuns of Sri Lanka
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2023-03-12
St Francis Xavier Meets a Zen Master
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2023-03-11
The Buddhist Nun Controversy
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2023-03-11
Zen Comes West: Recalling Zen Master Soen Nakagawa
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2023-03-10
Remembering Harriet Tubman, the Woman Called Moses
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2023-03-09
A Zen Unitarian Take on the History of Christianity
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2023-03-08
Thinking of Mother Moshan, one of the Early Zen Masters
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2023-03-07
George Orwell on Clear Thinking, Good Writing, and, as I find it, a Spiritual Practice
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2023-03-06
The Love of Money: A Practical Spirituality in Zen Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity
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2023-03-05
CENTERING OUR HEARTS: 112 Pointers for the Practices of Presence
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2023-03-04
On Seeing "Living," a Small Spiritual Classic
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2023-03-03
Ensō Verde: Considering a Zen Inspired Retirement Community
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2023-03-03
Meeting Suffering With Gentleness
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2023-03-02
The Prophet Mani and Christianity's Problem with Dualism
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2023-03-01
Reflecting on Nonduality and Zen and the Shape of a Spiritual Life Today
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2023-02-27
True Stories of Healing Perfectionism with TSD Mindfulness Five-Minute Exercises
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2023-02-27
A Zen Meditation on Christian Communion
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2023-02-27
Learn Zen From This Old Woman: Iron Grindstone’s Old Cow From The Record of Going Easy
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2023-02-26
Recalling Johnny Cash & A Consideration of Love as a Zen Koan
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2023-02-26
The Shade Of Sattay
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2023-02-23
The Diamond Trap and the Fortune Teller: Going Through the Mystery 40
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2023-02-23
Karl Jaspers and the Path of the Spiritual if not Religious
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2023-02-22
Ash Wednesday: A Small Zen Meditation
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2023-02-20
Dōgen’s Instruction for Householder Zen Training
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2023-02-19
A Zen Meditation on Suicide
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2023-02-17
How Hercules Reached Japan
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2023-02-17
Finding Zen Teachers & Spiritual Directors
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2023-02-16
Getting Away & Coming Home: Zen Retreats and a Note on What to Do When You Can’t
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2023-02-15
Buddha and Vaccinations: The Real Meaning Behind His Words
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2023-02-15
How to Handle our Internal Cookie Monster
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2023-02-14
Love and Death: A Small Zen Meditation on Valentine's Day
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2023-02-12
Tibet's Declaration of Independence and the Thirteenth Dalai Lama
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2023-02-11
When Britain Invaded Tibet
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2023-02-11
Recalling the Consecration of Barbara Harris as the first woman to serve as a bishop within the Anglican Communion
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2023-02-10
More True Stories of Overcoming Stress, Overwhelm and Negative-Self Talk In Spite of this Crazy World We Live In
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2023-02-10
Overcoming Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Mindfulness Mindset and Practice: A True Story
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2023-02-10
Zen, a New Universalism, and Politics
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2023-02-09
Zen and the Wisdom of No Escape
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2023-02-07
The Zen Center Model is Broken: Excerpt from "Further Zen Conversations"
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2023-02-07
The Secret to Unlocking All Dharma Books
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2023-02-07
Living and Dying Within the Fire: A Different Middle Way
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2023-02-06
A Critique of Centering Prayer: Text and Commentary by Fr Francis Tiso
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2023-02-06
Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Political Radical, and Naturalistic theologian
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2023-02-05
The Golden Urn and the Succession of Dalai Lamas
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2023-02-05
Recalling William S. Burroughs
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2023-02-05
THE UNITARIAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT: A Meditation on the Politics of Unitarian Universalism
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2023-02-04
THIRD PURE PRECEPT: Zen’s Shorthand for the Bodhisattva Vow
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2023-02-02
Wandering Destitute into a Demon Pit
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2023-01-31
China's Claim to Tibet and the Seventh Dalai Lama
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2023-01-31
The Central Importance of Inquiring of a Teacher
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2023-01-31
The Buddhist Police Inside My Head
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2023-01-30
Perception, Wisdom, and Wonder: Closing the Rift Between the Rational and Spiritual
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2023-01-29
A Note on the Use of Chairs in Zen Meditation
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2023-01-27
Resilient by Rick Hanson
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2023-01-27
The Sixth Dalai Lama's Short and Tragic Life
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2023-01-27
A Simple Introduction to Zen's Koan & Huatou
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2023-01-26
Celebrating Basant Amid A Shrinking Footprint
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2023-01-24
How the Fifth Dalai Lama Became Ruler of Tibet
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2023-01-24
Did The Buddha Want Us To Go Gently?
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2023-01-23
Round and Smooth Like a Pearl
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2023-01-23
Zen and Recovery: Abstinence is Radical
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2023-01-22
Zen at the Margins: Reflecting on Monastic, Priestly, Secular, Jewish, & Christian Zens
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2023-01-19
Should We Help Ourselves Or Others First?
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2023-01-18
Zen as a Way of Magical Realism
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2023-01-17
Dogen: Find a Good Teacher, Ask For a Koan, Break Through
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2023-01-17
A Gentle Approach to a Daily Buddhist Practice
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2023-01-17
Charles Gore and the Quest for a liberal Catholicism
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2023-01-16
Zen and the Garden of Eden
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2023-01-15
Ikkō-ikki: Buddhism and the Japanese Peasant Revolts
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2023-01-15
Considering Universalism: The Secret Teaching of the Christian Heart
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2023-01-14
Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship: Convocation 2023
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2023-01-14
The Zen of Lewis Carroll: A Tiny Meditation on the Anniversary of his Death
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2023-01-13
The Central Idea Behind Mindfulness is Widely Misunderstood: You Are the Thinker, Not Your Thoughts
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2023-01-11
Blue Cliff Record, Case 86: Yúnmén's Radiant Light
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2023-01-10
Fun Factoid: All Three Earliest Examples of Printing Texts are Buddhist Scriptures
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2023-01-10
What If This Year Is My Last?
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2023-01-08
I'm not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat
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2023-01-07
CEASE FROM EVIL: A Reflection on the First Precept of Zen Buddhism
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2023-01-01
MIND AND NO MIND: A Zen Talk for a New Year