New Vine Ghost Site for Dosho's Creative Endeavors (and other things)
This is a heads-up for you that we now have a new Vine of Obstacles Zen website on a platform called Ghost that combines the website for our training
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What is the Heart of Zen? Reflections on the Transmission of Luminosity
The Record of the Transmission of Illumination (J. Denkoroku) by Keizan Jokin Zenji (1264-1325) is one of the most important dharma texts available to us
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A Black Lacquer Person Runs Through the Night: The Sudden Awakening of Keizan Jokin
Sudden, great awakening is the life blood of the Zen school, both Soto and Rinzai. In this post, I'll share one such great awakening - that of the
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Intimate Friendship: "When You Sing, I Respond; When I Sing, You Clap Hands" | Intimate Friendship: When You Sing, I Respond; When I Sing, You Clap Hands
Intimate friendship is such an important aspect of the Zen Way. In the dharma context, an intimate friend (知音, J. "chi-on") is someone who really gets
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Not Looking Toward The Peace Of The Innermost Mind
In sunshine, the solitary peak is green; under the gaze of the moon, the valley stream is cold.
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Intimate Knowing: How To Work With Thinking In Zazen
"Intimately know, intimately loosen thoughts, and for now cut them off, sit, and look!"
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The Awakening of Yaeko Iwasaki: No Place Not Known
In this post, you'll find a selection from Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions. Also, a few years back, while I was in the midst of
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The Zen Center Model is Broken: Excerpt from "Further Zen Conversations"
In the fall, I met with Rick McDaniel for an interview for his new book, Further Zen Conversations. Rick has published a bunch of really good books about
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