‘The true person is not anyone in particular.’
Dôgen Zenji
Dogen
Morning meditation: The Way is Completely Present.
‘The way is completely present where you are.
The Supreme Teaching is Free.’
Dôgen Zenji
Morning meditation: The Universe that’s Breathing.
‘Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.’
Dôgen Zenji
Part 6 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura
‘Is there a way we should aim at beyond the framework of zazen that has not yet been accomplished?’
The Emotional Climate of Nondualistic Practice, by Ken Jones
At home in our Buddha nature, but doubtless no less aware of our still persistent delusiveness, we open in ready compassion to the misfortunes and stupidities of others…
Part 2 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura
In our zazen we have to let go of any kind of thinking, even thinking about dharma.
Law suit against reality, by Ken Jones
‘This’ versus ‘that’ is, I believe, the starting point for an understanding of Dogen. The theme that runs through the essays in his great collection the Shobogenzo is the unmasking of this delusive dualism, and demonstrating the Great Way of opening to a sense of duality which is freed of the self-neediness which drives dualism…
Discomfort without Aversion: A Little Miracle, by Corrado Pensa
You might remember a famous illustration that the Buddha gives of what a healed mind is like. He said, ‘In what is seen, there is only what is seen. In what is heard, there is only what is heard.’…
Buddhism now 