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Not Misusing Sexuality: A Dead Tree

Zazen and koan train us to hold all of our stories very lightly - about the self and the ten direction world. 

Dosho Port

20 Jun 2024 • 5 min read
Not Misusing Sexuality: A Dead Tree
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Just-Sit Koan
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Just-Sit Koan

“Zazen is the body-mind dropped off—when it is single-minded zazen, free of the five desires, and rid of the five hindrances.”
30 Mar 2026 11 min read
Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response

And then there's the burning house of the whole human and nonhuman world. What can a practitioner do but to join palms and cry out, praying for the help of the Buddhas and Ancestors?
17 Mar 2026 10 min read
Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking?
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Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking?

In which Dogen denies that karmic hindrances are empty.
08 Mar 2026 11 min read
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