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Tag: buddha nature

Always Halfway
All About Love

We Are Always Halfway

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY DICK VERSTEGEN Being halfway is not discouraging, but liberating. It is the resting place of constant alertness.

Tagged attention, Bodhisattva, buddha nature, delusion, dharma, halfway, illusion, liberation, ocean, refuge, SufferingLeave a comment
Dainin Katagiri
Book Bits

You Have To Say Something: Dainin Katagiri on What To Say When There Is Nothing To Say

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Katagiri, it can be difficult to find the words or modality to enter back into the world from a place of silence, but it is something we ultimately have to do.

Tagged 100-foot pole, buddha nature, Emptiness, Silence, words, ZenLeave a comment
Bankei
Japanese Texts, Texts, The Masters, Zen Stories

Bankei and the Unborn

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

17th century Zen master Bankei on the Unborn, the unconditioned mind that comes up spontaneously and is fundamental to every person, without exception.

Tagged Bankei, buddha nature, buddha-mind, conditioning, Japan, Norman Wadell, Rinzai, The Unborn, Yotaku, ZenLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

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    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
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    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
  • John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
    John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • June Jordan - Poem for a Young Poet
    June Jordan - Poem for a Young Poet
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Centreing - The 112 Ways to Open the Invisible Door of Consciousness (Part 5: 57-70)
    Centreing - The 112 Ways to Open the Invisible Door of Consciousness (Part 5: 57-70)

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 4th Sekki
    4th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, DIANA LIVI and VIRGINIA FOLGER
  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
    In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
 

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