Year: 2015

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Mui talks about “leaving home”. English translation of Dogen’s text: “Students of the Way, you must be very careful on several levels in giving up worldly sentiment. Give up the world, give up your family, and give up your body and mind. Consider this well. Even among those who retreat from the world and live … Read more

It has been raining a lot recently. On such days we do things like cutting and chopping wood for the kitchen stove:

Audio of Uchiyama roshi’s last formal talk at Antaiji forty years ago. An English translation can be found in Part 8 (“The Wayseeker” of the book “Opening the hand of thought”), but the essential teaching is summed up here: Seven points of practice