Ordinary Mind Zendo
The Zendo was founded in 1996 by Barry Magid, a Dharma heir of Charlotte Joko Beck and is dedicated to her vision of a psychologically minded Zen practice adapted to the needs of American students practicing in the context of our everyday lives.
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The Perfection of Each Thing Just Being Itself
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Blue Cliff Record, Case 6: Every Day Is a Good Day
Blue Cliff Record, Case 6: Unmon’s Every Day Is a Good Day
Unmon addressed the assembly, saying, “I do not ask you about the fi...
The Boundless Context We Find Ourselves In
I’ll begin with a short passage from Dōgen’s Genjōkōan:
Firewood becomes ash. Ash cannot turn back into firewood again. However, we should not view ash as after and firewood as before. We should know that firewood dwells in the dharma po...
The Fallacy of the Worldless Subject
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Blue Cliff Record, Case 5: Seppō's Grain of Rice
This morning’s talk, I’m going to call “The Fallacy of the Worldless Subject” — an idea that’s beautifully articulated in a book I’m...
By Being Ourselves, We Are Being What’s Happening
Book of Serenity, Case 62: Beiko’s No Enlightenment
Preface
The primary meaning of Bodhidharma’s principle muddled Emperor Wu’s head. The nondual Dharma gate of Vimalakirti made Manjushri’s speech go wrong. Is there anything here of enl...
Knowing for Yourself, Learning from Others
Matthew Sullivan’s The Garden of Flowers and Weeds - Blue Cliff Record, Case 4
Last week, we were talking about the dialectic between self-acceptance and responsibility — going back and forth between saying “this is just who I am” and...
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