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The Universe Is a Verb: What Happens When Everything Is Activity?
Series Introduction
This ten-part series grows out of The Last Turtle: Zero and the Search for Effective Zen. Each essay takes one idea from the book and gives it room to breathe: activity, Zero, stillness, effectiveness, frameworks, di...
Summarizing the Journey
Summarizing the Path
Following Sariputta and the Aunupadasutta
What if awakening isn’t mysterious?
What if the path becomes understandable precisely because someone was willing to examine it carefully, repeatedly, and without assum...
Zen Frameworks
The Architecture of Awakening in Zen
Zen has a reputation for distrusting explanations.
Burn the sutras. Kill the Buddha. Stop thinking. Just sit.
Taken literally, this can make Zen sound almost hostile to theory—as though the entire t...
The Geometry of Suffering
What if suffering isn’t simply something we feel?
What if it is something we construct?
Imagine that each of us carries an internal map of reality. It contains our expectations, memories, preferences, fears, identities, and beliefs. We co...
The Sense of Self
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What if faith isn’t belief at all?
In The Last Turtle: Zero, Zen, and the Culmination of Faith, Jim Redel dismantles one of the most persistent assumptions in both spirituality and everyday life—...
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I would guess that many of us often ask ourselves: What should I be doing at this exact moment? The many buddhas and Zen masters have shown that there is an answer. It comes from walking the path that I call Zen Optimism.
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