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THE KESA BY MASTER KODO SAWAKI

One day, an ‘unsui’ asked me about the meaning of the Kesa. I answered him: The Kesa is something that is not clear. He looked at me surprised and astonished, his expression telling me he thought I Was just blabbering. Actually, the Kesa is undefinable, either by its “broken” color,…Read [+]

FUKANZAZENGI: Universal norms for Zazen

The Way is basically perfect and all-pervading. How could it be contingent upon practice and realization? The Dharma-vehicle is free and untrammelled. What need is there for concentrated effort? Indeed, the whole body is far beyond the world's dust. Who could believe in a means to brush it clean? It…Read [+]

MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHINGYO

The bodhisattva of the true freedom, through the deep practice of the Great Wisdom, understands that the body and the five skandhas (feeling, perception, thought, activity, and consciousness) are nothing more than emptiness (ku) and through this understanding he helps all those who suffer. Oh, Sariputra, phenomena are no different…Read [+]

DISCOURSE OF BARBARA KOSEN IN THE GENDRONNIÈRE TEMPLE

Master Taisen Deshimaru is the master who taught me the practice of the Way. I became his disciple and I received the ordination of nun in the dojo of Paris in 1975. I practiced close to him. After his death I spent three years in the Dojo of Zürich, then…Read [+]

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Ananda

India's second patriarch

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