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I’m a Soto zen priest sharing notes and journal entries from my practice and study of Buddhism.
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A Round Circle Looks Like A Straight Line (opens the original)
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The reality of life is birth, old age, sickness, and death. These four truths are shared not only by human beings, but all living things. Yet, to say that it is only living things that experience birth, old age, sickness, and death is still not accurate. All phenomena are marked by an arising, abiding, decay, and dissolution. If we look at something that is created by our hands, say a table, we can see that the form of the table has come from the material it was built from, the creative process
Ohigan (opens the original)
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For those who may be new to our temple, or Japanese Buddhism, what is Ohigan? Higan means “distant shore” and is celebrated during the spring and autumn equinox, when time of great change helps us to reflect on our own changing lives. We use this time to evaluate our lives and renew our efforts to Buddha-dharma and awakening in our lives to our original unconditioned Buddha nature.What is the other shore? Different schools of Buddhism in Japan discuss the other shore in slightly different ways,
The Sweeping Monk (opens the original)
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Chudapanthaka was a disciple of the Buddha. He would sit and listen to Buddha teaching, taking in all the wisdom and compassion of The Buddhadharma. However, as soon as Buddha was finished with his talk, Chudapanthaka couldn’t remember a single sentence; not a single word. In fact, his memory was so bad that he couldn’t even remember his Dharma name the Buddha gave him during his ordination. To make things harder for Chudapanthaka, his brother Mahapanthaka was very intelligent. He had an amazing
Living Simply (opens the original)
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I often think to myself, “How can I practice the Dharma most intimately and what can I say about it to help people who are trying to end their suffering.” As a priest of a temple, people often come in looking to understand something about Buddhism; a passage from a sutra, something Dogen wrote, or perhaps where to begin their practice when there is so many types of Buddhism our there, what would be best for them?Subscribe nowMany times I will try to find ways to explain a teaching or sutra to th
There is No Present Moment (opens the original)
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Three thousand realms in a single thought moment. In Japanese this is Ichi nen san zen 一念三千. This doctrine is essentially that each moment of our life contains the entire universe. There is not really a way to pinpoint the present. Lets try an exercise…Subscribe nowSitting upright, whatever that means for your body, with your attention focused, eyes open looking down a few feet in front of you. Place your hands in your lap left palm on top or right with the thumbs touching,
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