Awaken Interviews Gangaji Pt 2 – What Is Always Here?
DONNA QUESADA: So it’s a kind of a spaciousness, a distance to where you’re able to see all as passing clouds…
DONNA QUESADA: So it’s a kind of a spaciousness, a distance to where you’re able to see all as passing clouds…
by Zen Master Hakuin: Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) describes the “Zen sickness” he contracted in his latter twenties and the methods he learned from the recluse Hakuyu in the mountains outside Kyoto that enabled him to cure the ailment…
From Eckhart Tolle Now, Teachings with Kim Eng: Form involves duality; the nondual is formless…
by Andrew Schelling: Matsuo Basho’s (1644–94) haiku—that mind-altering frog vanishing into an ancient pond—has become so deeply scored in the popular imagination that it seems older than poetry itself…
by Jordan Bates: Zen stories are the ancient words and deeds of Zen masters, which have been passed through the ages, crossing the dynasties and cultures of forgotten peoples, originating with the Buddha himself…
by Peter Coyote: Eeek! Eeek! Eeek! the bird cried. It! It! It! And the world as Peter Coyote had experienced it ended. Forty years after his first sesshin, the actor and writer finally gets the point of Zen…
by John Stevens: Enso as defined by John Stevens, author of Sacred Calligraphy of the East…
by Jo Confino: Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth…
by Lucy Dayman: A practice in appreciating simplicity, Zen art grew up around the philosophy of Zen Buddhism.
Thich Naht Hanh, the Zen Buddhist master, has some interesting advice about what it means to truly let go…