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Dear Brothers and Sisters, We all have learned to protect our name, our reputation and our honor fiercely, ready to stand up and fight to defend them when they are under attacked. Name, reputation and honor are probably the same thing in Vietnamese. Name is danh; reputation is danh tiếng (voice/sound of name); honor is…
Rituals small and large, private and communal, are part of how we human beings interact, communicate. And they are a central part of Zen.
The Zen classic, the Gateless Barrier, is one of the handful of spiritual books that I revisit over and over again.
Zen meditation evolved from classic Buddhist meditation. It comes to us blending Vipassana or “insight,” and Shamatha or “concentration.”
The koanic way is both an imaginative exercise and a body practice.This is where I find the project of writing one’s own gospel.