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Is Form Permanent?
Is Form Permanent or Impermanent?
Unpacking the Buddha’s Second Discourse — Episode 6
The Buddha’s teaching of not-self is sometimes reduced to a philosophical declaration: the self does not exist. But in his second discourse, the B...
Sariputta Reaches the Edge of Consciousness—Then What Happens?
Sariputta’s Eighth Attempt: Beyond Perception and Non-Perception
There is a peculiar danger in becoming very good at meditation.
Eventually, an experience can become so peaceful, so refined, and so radically unlike ordinary consciousnes...
Zen Bookends
Zen Bookends: Prolog and Epilog
The Zen journey may begin before Zen—and awakening may not be where it ends.
Zen is famous for gates.
There is the gateless gate. There is Mu. There are koans that function as barriers through which t...
News Feeds as Koans
The Koan in Your Pocket: News Feeds, Zen, and the Activity of Choosing
There is something peculiar about opening a news feed.
You are sitting in a chair.
Perhaps drinking coffee.
Nothing particularly threatening is happening in the ro...
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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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