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Turning the light around

Linji Turns the Light

Turning the light around

How Can We Carry the Jewel Close to Our Heart?

If you are not clear about this, turn the light around to illuminate, and then you'll know with great relief that the luminous jewel is what you are.

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The Platform Sutra

What is Awakening? Wandering Playfully in Samadhi

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Renunciation Day: The Dreamlike Illusion is a Sham

To practice Zen deeply a person must swim up the cultural stream.

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What Is Zazen? Dōgen's Koan Realized

"It is the kōan realized."

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Record of Going Easy

Is Just Sitting Facing a Wall Enough?

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A Fire Child Comes Seeking Fire: Understanding or Awakening?

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Problems With The Platform Sutra: Dogen

...if you have a problem with the buddhadharma and don't even consider the possibility that it might be your personal problem, you really aren't in that moment studying the buddhadharma.

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Song of the Dragon Sesshin

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Three Big Sublime Stopping Mistakes

... denial that stopping is possible, the exaggerated concern about attachment to stopping, and confusing stopping with seeing.

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Ten Line Kannon

Transferring the Merit: The Essence of Great Vehicle Great Compassion

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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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The Difference Between Soto and Rinzai

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Plucking a Blade of Grass: The Wondrous Dharma of Miàodào

Below you will find a dharma talk by an incredible (and largely unknown) Zen master, Miàodào Dǐngguāng (1095-1170), one of only three women Zen masters listed in Outline of the Linked Flames, a transmission of illumination collection published in 1183. Miàodào had been a student of the Cáodòng (J. Sōtō)

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Dogen’s Instruction for Householder Zen Training

(Eihei kōroku V8.14) Translated with introduction and notes by Dōshō Port Introduction Because this Dōgen dharma discourse (hōgo) was written for householders, includes examples of awakened householders, and offers instructions for householders, I've long been curious about it. After all, 99% or so of those engaged in

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Do Not Get Close To Such People (EK8.14.7)

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Noble Ones, Do You Not Trust This Yet?(EK 8.14.6)

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Householders With the Power to Polish the Bright Mirror (EK 8.14.4)

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The Difficulties of Being a Zen Student (EK V8.14.3)

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Wandering Destitute into a Demon Pit (EK V8.14.2)

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The Central Importance of Inquiring of a Teacher (EK V14.8.1)

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The Lotus Flowers In This Pond Are So Fragrant (EK V8.14.9)

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Round and Smooth Like a Pearl (EK V8.14.8)

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Dōgen: Find a Good Teacher, Ask For a Koan, Break Through (EK V8.14.5)

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Great Doubt is Intimate