‘Sometimes life feels like a battle doesn’t it? We go though the gate and face ten thousand warriors.’
Zen Buddhism
Katagiri Roshi
Morning meditation: This is the Self Before.
‘This is the self before something runs through our consciousness.’
Katagiri Roshi
Morning meditation: This What-is-just-is.
‘This what-is-just-is, or thusness, is not a state of being that we can know through our consciousness.’
Katagiri Roshi
Morning meditation: The Problem Is.
‘The problem is that our consciousness is always working, going this way, that way, in every direction from moment to moment.’
Katagiri Roshi
Buddha-Life, by Katagiri Roshi
We can see the original principle of existence in the life of a tree, a pebble, snow, the seasons and other forms in nature.
Buddhism now 