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An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God Through Love
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A New Poiint of View: Guishan Brings a Mirror
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Inclusion... Drinking from Two Wisdom Wells
Inclusion is not the erasing of different values, quality, or truthfulness. That would be like saying anyone who can write plays is a Shakespear, anyone who can paint is a Monet, and two plus two can be four or ten or three-hundred. Inclusive entails being honest about where we agree and disagree. Inclusion means saying some religious teachings are like my singing and some like Frank Sinatra singi
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is starting Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo: Appreciating the non-religious manner, non-mystical approach of Nishijima.
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Rest Is Sacred: Reclaiming Our Brilliance through the Practice of Stillness
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Hi, Johannes: Are your religious or spiritual in any way? That can determine where to look. Thanks, Brian
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| A lyrical 'inner' travelogue, raw and gutsy confessions of one man's struggle to trust his God. While Chasan, a progressive, social activist rabbi, often uses traditional god-language, he acknowledges, "Such love has many names." And, "There is no la ...more | |
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| Loori clarifies well the Middle Way and the process central to Zen, while, at the same time, what we "arrive" at is already where we "walk" from. The process: experience, clarity, realization, embodiment. He shares how at embodiment the emergence doe ...more | |
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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record:
"Smart, funny and accessible!"
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Христо's review
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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record:
"Why am I giving this five stars: I think the Blue Cliff Record is a fascinating and rich collection of koans. I've read the classic English translation by Cleary. This one, however, is many times better, more accessible, and impactful."
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Ommiolgi's review
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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record:
"A really enjoyable translation and commentary of the Blue Cliff Record, a seminal text of Chan Buddhism.
This book is accessible, and very complete with good translation notes and excellent commentary.. One hundred carefully selected Koans of Tang Dyn" Read more of this review » |
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“By being submerged again and again, one progressively takes upon himself or herself the scent, we could say, of the perfume of Presence. This happens, though one is often not aware; others may notice this, even when the one on this path of submerging is not aware of how subtly he or she is taking on the likeness of loving Beingness. Indeed, one becomes less aware of changes through meditation the more this process continues, becoming less attached to results and less self-conscious about his or her spiritual practice. One may even come to think of meditation as not meditation, rather simply going through a process, for example, of sitting quietly and receptively for a time each day.
*Brian K. Wilcox. "Soaking ~ Perfume of Presence," 5.24.18.”
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*Brian K. Wilcox. "Soaking ~ Perfume of Presence," 5.24.18.”
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“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
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“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
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