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Posted on March 21, 2021 | Views: 10402

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…

Posted on February 9, 2021 | Views: 1121

Zen Sickness

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…

Posted on October 1, 2020 | Views: 870

Kim Eng: What Is The Unmanifested Yin And Yang?

From Eckhart Tolle Now, Teachings with Kim Eng: Form involves duality; the nondual is formless…

Posted on August 28, 2020 | Views: 1092

Why Haiku Holds The Flavor Of Zen

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…

Posted on July 1, 2020 | Views: 3753

7 Zen Stories That Might Just Give You A Glimpse Of Enlightenment

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…

Posted on June 23, 2020 | Views: 1262

It! It! It!

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…

Posted on May 18, 2020 | Views: 888

What Is An Enso?

by John Stevens: Enso as defined by John Stevens, author of Sacred Calligraphy of the East…

Posted on January 28, 2020 | Views: 1529

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change

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…