Just one more balding, slightly fat, middle aged ex-hippy with an earring and a beard … Moreover, remembering the natural sage of Jetavana park, we can still see the traces of his six years of upright sitting.We can still hear rumors of the transmitter of the mind-seal at Shaolin [Bodhidharma], spending nine years facing the…

Not going to extremes … The Middle Way. Iwan ya kano Gion no shôchi taru, tanza rokunen no shôseki mitsu beshi. Shôrin no shin’in o tsutauru, menpeki kyûsai no seimei nao kikoyu. Koshô sudeni shikari, konjin nanzo benzezaru. Moreover, remembering the natural sage of Jetavana park, we can still see the traces of his six…

‘Just Do It’ … Just Do Zazen, Just Do Ordinary Life … ‘Just Do’ by Non-Doing … Even if, proud of our understanding and richly endowed with realizations, we obtain special states of insight, attain the truth, we clarify the mind, we manifest a zeal that pierces the sky, [even so, we but] ramble through…

Here are words and philosophizing … about not getting caught in words and philosophizing … Tatoe e ni hokori go ni yutaka ni shite, becchi no chitsû o e, dô o e, shin o akirame te, shôten no shiiki o koshi, nyûtô no henryô ni shôyô su to iedomo, hotondo shusshin no katsuro o kiketsu…

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