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A few months ago one of my friends posted a photo on Twitter of what was (incorrectly) deemed to be the mission statement of a nutrition company: “Don’t Be A Dick.” I often think about this phrase and how it can be a good motto in which to live one’s life (sexism aside). In the…
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Grasping at things is surely delusion; according with sameness is still not enlightenment – From The Sandokai “Enlightenment, for a wave in the ocean, is the moment the wave realises it is water.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh Our teacher gave a really interesting talk at our meditation group last night and it made me think,…
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The glass slips out of my grasping hands. CRASH! A thousand suns glisten on my kitchen floor. The death poem is a tradition in Zen Buddhism. Our sangha writes one at the new year every year as a way to reflect on the past year. I believe the tradition is that Buddhist monks wrote them…
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Refined and common speech come together in the dark, clear and murky phrases are distinguished in the light. ……… In the light there is darkness, but don’t take it as darkness; In the dark there is light, but don’t see it as light. From “Harmony Of Difference And Sameness,” a poem by Zen Master Shitou…
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Last night I listened to a dharma talk about emptiness. The talk was really good and it clarified the philosophy really well. At the end of the talk we had a discussion, in which I was trying to express my thoughts as they came to me but I feel like I didn’t quite get them…
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