Zen saving sentient beings
The question has been asked: Can Zen cure illnesses? Master Baizhang When a Buddha appears in the world to rescue
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Lectures
Lectures and presentations on Zen and Buddhism
My own Private Religion
As a public Zen Buddhist practitioner, doing videos on YouTube and of my blog, I have an opportunity to be
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Beyond Zazen
When is Zazen not performance art? When one has gained the heart of True Practice, that unmovable faith and belief
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Disappointing
There is a general sadness, a feeling of regrets and disappointment that I sense from reading the various post on
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THE NATURE OF SAMSARA
To the casual observer, the events of life flow-on in liquid succession. To the causal observer, the events of life
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What is Zen
Quite simply, Zen is the direct path of transcendence beyond affliction, birth, rebirth and death. In short, it’s The Way
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Why does Buddhism suffer from nihilism?
Back in 1965 when I took refuge in the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha, there wasn’t a no-self taking refuge or merely
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Meditation or Performance Art?
What Zen students think meditation is, is actually Performance Art – that seated meditation looking like a Buddha Statue! That
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The two paths: Theravada and Mahayana
It needs to be stated that there are two very distinct views and teachings within the Buddhist-sphere that being the
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