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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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
In this post, I'm concluding the series of re-edits of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi's (1885–1973 - pictured above) comments on the main case of Record of
Zen students sometimes seem to think that Zen is a passive process. One just sits and the magic happens. Nonsense! And Sōtō students sometimes dismiss Then, for the first time, you’ll arrive where there is no seam or crack, where you don’t see flaws or scars.
I recently posted just the verse for this old case, along with my thank-you message for April for Patreon subscribers. Below you will find the full case
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