How do you stop suffering?
[Excerpted from a live video conference, November 22, 2020] … If there’s a koan — “How do you stop suffering?” — of course many of us can pass the koan, we just be suffering. That’s passing it,...
View ArticleLooking for one’s true self and being true to one’s self
[Excerpted from a video conference, January 10, 2021] We have this saying in Zen, ‘to find, or discover, our true self.’ Lately, for the last year or two, I’ve been saying it’s not so much about...
View ArticleSeeing absolute equality and appreciating the differences
In the beginning of our practice we may have a glimpse of absolute equality. Dai-kensho is when we truly realize that there is nothing to realize. This is the true realization of absolute equality,...
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Exploring the Great Masters
Bodhidharma by Genpo, 1994 Every successor in the lineage of Zen is a Buddha/Patriarch. That is the beauty of the Zen lineage, I would say. There are beauties to every lineage, but the Zen lineage...
View ArticleOn Trusting Nothing
Anything we put our trust in, anyone or anything outside ourself, and even our self, will eventually at some point really let us down. Nothing can live up to the expectation we put on the self or...
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