When you become the successor of your master in a Japanese art, you will receive some paper on which something is written. No one knows wha...

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The most difficult thing is to keep our beginner’s mind in our practice. If you can keep your beginner’s mind forever, you are Buddha. Our...

Ben Van-Overmeire   is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Duke Kunshan University. His research focuses on the study of Zen Budd...

When our mind becomes demanding or when we are longing for something, we will violate our precepts not to kill, not to be immoral, not to s...

If we keep our beginner’s mind, we keep our precepts. When we lose our beginner’s mind, we will lose all the precepts. For Zen students the...

In a beginner’s mind we have many possibilities, but in an expert’s mind there are not many possibilities. So, in our practice the import...

We recited the Prajna Paramita Sutra this morning only once. I think we recited very well, but what will happen to us if we recite it twice...

I don’t want to talk about the history of Zen this morning, but I want to talk about why it is difficult just because you came here this ...

People say to study Zen is difficult, but there is some misunderstanding why it is difficult. It is not difficult because to sit in a cross...