So we should not arrange teaching horizontal or vertical. We should realize the meaning of the teachings, one by one, without arranging. So...

Two Tassajara Stories Willem Malten cuke page

Although everything is changing, moment after moment it will change, but everything at that moment, the smallest particle of time, exists i...

which Carl calls the Mountains and Waters Sutra. Previously posted his 1999 talk at Tassajara on this fascicle of Dogen's Shobogenzo....

If everything is changing, nothing exists, nothing special exists. This is true, but in the smallest particle of time, everything exists.  ...

“‘The most important point is to find out what is the most important point.’ After a lifetime of practice inspired by his teacher, Suz...

Belief in some permanent one deity is based on the idea of existence. Even though you say “spiritual life,” that is not spiritual life. It ...

Even people who are not satisfied with materialistic way of life, as long as their view of life is based on some substantial viewpoint of e...

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Samanta is “universal, universality.” And bhadra means “wisdom” or “validity”-- more solid and concrete idea. An...

We say “think non-thinking.” So you may say that is to obtain something which you cannot obtain. Anyway, what you will have through zazen i...