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I’ve written all of this because friends urged me to offer some reflections on the year gone by and jot down a few thoughts for the upcoming year. But I didn’t want to waste my time looking up data points. Anyway, I don’t see that there was all that much difference between 1949 and 1979, nor for that matter can I detect how 1962 and 2022 were different.
In this post, Kōkyō Henkel offers an insightful preface and then his and Yashu Zhang's enormously important translation of the section of the Record of
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From: £2245.00 Starting in Santiago with the snowcapped Andes as the city’s backdrop, head north through Argentina’s wine country into Bolivia and up into its vast altiplano with the eerir yet majestic Salt Flats and the complex and mysterious indigenous culture of the locals. Cross into Peru and stay with a local family on Lake Titicaca before following in the footsteps of the Incas on the famous trail to Machu Picchu. Through Lima follow the coast north and check out the surf scene on Peru’s northern beaches before delving into the Amazon basin and seeing the rainforest and its wild...
Shaolin monastery Tales of a “CEO monk” obscure the business of faith in China Shaolin is the cradle of kung-fu and Zen Buddhism. Under its abbot it has opened international branches and made plans to list on the stockmarket F OR NEARLY two hours the monks sit folded in the lotus position, motionless and silent. All are robed in grey apart from the cherubic man in saffron, their leader. When the last joss-stick burns down, he glides out of the room without a word, later offering a brief explanation of the meditation: “True wisdom emerges not from a calculating mind but from the wellspri...