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How to “sit Zazen” when one has the flu, and can’teven sit? Just be “at one” with your runny nose, your aching bones, sneeze each sneeze as aperfect sneeze … and when you barf, taste that it is just the Buddha Barfing!   There is Just Barfing, and it is a wonder. That’s how.  …

The start of April is the day when we traditionally celebrate in the Zen world the birth of that great Vietnamese Zen Patriarch, Master ‘Duc Tho’ (or as he is more commonly known to those who love him ‘Su su’) Master Duc Tho is, of course, well known in Asia and, for the last few…

(BENDOWA XVI) The “Six Realms” refer to the six heavens, hells and earthly states into which one may be reborn in traditional Buddhist thought. SIX REALMS But, even if we do not take that literally, we can also say that this means just all sentient beings everywhere, throughout all space and time, many of whom…

(BENDOWA XV) “Tathāgata” is a name which can have several meanings and interpretations, including one who has thus gone and one who has thus come, or one who has found the truth. It may also be taken as the one who has gone to suchness or the one who has arrived at suchness Yet there…
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