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CAN A TILE BE A MIRROR

Nangaku & Baso

There is a story about two monks, Nangaku and Baso. Baso has been practising meditation for ten years. Nangaku comes along.

Nangaku: What is the use of meditation?

Baso: To make a Buddha!

Nangaku picks up a tile. He starts to rub the t

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PASSIONS BELOW THE SURFACE


Discovering the Unconscious
I suspect that a good deal of the contemporary misunderstanding of Buddhadharma can be laid at the door of the mistranslation or misunderstanding of the words vijnana and ayatana. Ayatana is generally taken as referring t

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GRATITUDE

It’s quite common, during this ‘entitled’ era, when it’s common practice in our culture to strive for more, to compare oneself with others, to feel generally dissatisfied and lacking. I feel particularly, for teenagers (I have four teenaged granddaug

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