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Tag: Zen

Clear View/Right View

Owl said, “Then where does Right Realization come in?”
Brown Bear said, “Right Views! Right Views!”
Owl said, “What are Right Views?”
Brown Bear said, “We’re in it together, and we don’t have much time.”

— from Zen Master Raven: Read more

Turning the Wheel at Zen Studies Society?

This afternoon, ushering in a new year, a new decade, and—I hope—a new turning of the dharma wheel in America, Shinge Roshi Sherry Chayat was installed as abbot of Dai Bosatsu Zendo in upstate New York. I celebrate her new … Read more

Notes Towards a Practical Zen Psychology

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

— Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”

Thirteen hundred years ago at … Read more