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Entering a Small Stone Temple

Larry McSpadden

Field notes from a long practice — where ordinary life meets ancestral Zen

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# 3: It’s Not a Self-help Project

In almost all Zen centers and temples, at the conclusion of a block of sitting, after a talk, or during a retreat, The Four Vows are chanted by everyone present. Of the many English translations, here’s my favorite (it’s from Endless Path Z...

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After a sesshin back at the Rochester Zen Center, a friend of mine once exclaimed to another friend, “Zen is truly bodhisattvic! First it shows you where you’re stuck. Then it sets you free.” Sesshin is a Japanese word for an intensive Zen...

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# 1: You Actually Have To Do It

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The midday sun is bright as we share a bench in the small backyard of the Rochester Zen Center. It’s September, 1971, and we’ve just been through our first sesshin. Three days and nights of inner chaos and outer novelty. Fifty-five of us we...

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