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Not Misusing Sexuality

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
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Bring Me Your Mind And I Will Calm It For You

Bring Me Your Mind And I Will Calm It For You

"When you think that you've lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more."
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Sunday, August 2: Vine Practice Session Invitation
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Sunday, August 2: Vine Practice Session Invitation

"If we ever wake up and understand what alaya really is, alaya would become the great, bright mirror wisdom."
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Your Parents’ Rotting Red Flesh: The Meeting of Pivotal Zen Ancestors Rujing and Xutang
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Your Parents’ Rotting Red Flesh: The Meeting of Pivotal Zen Ancestors Rujing and Xutang

Early in Hakuin Zenji’s (1686-1769) teaching career, one of the monks training with him at Shoinji, Myoseki, lost his mother. Myoseki was from the north of the main island, about 250 miles (or a good ten-day walk) from Shoinji. There is no indication that Myoseki visited his
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