Solitude

June 22, 2010 16 comments
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The beast rears its ugly head in communion with other beasts, but in solitude, it has no place to hide. It dies in the presence of nothing, and flowers spring up from its corpse.

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Tom Stine’s Online Satsang

June 17, 2010 0 comments

This is just a quick note to remind everyone that my friend Tom Stine is holding a live online satsang on June 20th. The details are available on Tom’s site here: Live Satsang Online. For those of you unfamiliar with this concept of satsang, Tom explains it well: If you’ve never been to a satsang [...]

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Lesson with an Enlightened Master

June 14, 2010 6 comments
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Recently, Takuin sat with B.T. to listen. This short post is the result of what Takuin heard from the great master.

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How to Sit

June 8, 2010 0 comments
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What is the best way to sit? It seems to me, pretty useful, to ask an expert how to do something than to fumble around on my own for 100 years. So, how does one sit?

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Takuin and the Little Bird

June 5, 2010 19 comments
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Suddenly, the bird sprang upright, but did not attempt to fly away. It looked at Takuin, and he looked at it.

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