Vine of Obstacles Zen

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Great compassion

Transferring the Merit: The Essence of Great Vehicle Great Compassion

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Sunday Practice Invitation 12/3/23

Great compassion

Zazen and Great Compassion: Realizing a Soft and Flexible Mind

Therefore, within zazen they do not forget living beings, and they do not discard living beings, including even insects and worms, but always compassionately remember them for their benefit.

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Ten Line Kannon

Not Apart From This Mind: Kanzeon!

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Record of Going Easy

The Method is Knowing How to Soar: Linji's Blind Donkey

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Tangen Harada

Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha: The Dharma Talk by Kogen Czarnik Osho

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Ten Line Kannon

Mornings Nen Kanzeon: More on the Ten Line Kannon Sutra

Dogen

Gifts for the Seven Wise Sisters from a Couple Brothers with the Same Mother

Hakuin Zenji emphasizes the importance of dharma expression to benefit living beings, especially by offering poison words that disrupt delusions and allow the pure wind of wild awakening to blow forth.

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Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo

Understanding the "Ten Line Kannon Sutra": Don't Do It!

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Ten Line Kannon

Constancy, Joy, Self, Purity: A Wake Up Call

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Linji

Linji's Great Satori and All-Encompassing Awe-Inspiring Great Function: Dharma Talk and Text

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Ten Line Kannon

One With Buddha Cause: More on the Practice of Great Compassion

Bliss Featured

The Bliss of Retreat Meets the Horror of the Hamas Assault

I also see that my father-in-law sent a text message mid-retreat saying, "Love, joy, and peace should be the mantra of the world, but it falls on deaf ears."

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Shoyoroku

Unless You Know Bitter Suffering, You Won't Know Zhaozhou's Cypress Tree

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A Sutra Found in a Dream: The Source of the Ten Line Kannon Sutra

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Ten Line Kannon

What is Namo Buddha? A Bolt of Lightning

Koan

Originally So Close

“This Way is originally so close.”

Katagiri Roshi

Dainin Katagiri Roshi: A Conversation

I remember when Tenshin Reb Anderson came and gave Katagiri Roshi’s eulogy, he said, ‘And he knew how to shut up.’ And I thought, ‘Well, Reb did know him’ because he really did know how to shut up.”

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Ten Line Kannon

Confusing an Interpretation for the Real Thing: On What the Ten Line Kannon is Not

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Katagiri Roshi

Living With a Burning Question: The Heart of Zen

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Ten Line Kannon

Practicing Great Compassion Through the Ten Line Kannon: How To Do It

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Record of Going Easy

Not Knowing is Most Intimate

Record of Going Easy

Belly Laugh and Special Experiences

Warning: Although the koan below seems like a meeting of old friends, a proverbial dip into the warm mud bath at the Zen Spa, there are thorns in the mud. As you might expect.

Record of Going Easy

Eyes Asked Eyebrows...

In sorrow we grieve together. In laughter, we find the same joy.

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Linji Zen

Linji's True Person