A picture of my legs in lotus pose on a purple yoga mat with 3 books on it. From left to right: A Year with Saint Francis of Assisi, Three Zen Sutras, and The Essential Dogen.
In this chaotic, broken world, I find that it's important to practice skillful ways of keeping a calm, clear mind. One way I do that is by reading. The simple act of focusing on one thing, even for a few minutes, is centering. I tend towards spiritual texts, but I say read whatever floats your boat.
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Screenshot of the book Meeting the Myriad Things on Kobo bookstore
Now reading Meeting the Myriad Things
A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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Morning Meditation: All of these names simply point to the One Mind. Though there are ten thousand different names, there are not even two dharma realities.
Bassui Tokushล
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Time and Being: Thoughts on Martin Heidegger and Zen Master Dogen
Martin Heidegger, a prominent German philosopher, and Zen Master Dogen, an influential figure in Japanese Zen Buddhism, offer profoundโฆ
"...both Heidegger and Dogen invite us to reconsider our relationship to time and being, urging us to embrace the richness of each moment and to recognize the inherent interconnectedness of all things." brucelinton.medium.com/time-and-bei...
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I've built an AI Zen Master Dogen. It's trained on his writings, and analysis of his life and writings. It's still a WIP but it's working surprisingly well. I generated the image with Midjourney.
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Morning Meditation: All of you! If you want to return to your homes, simply wake up to your true nature.
Bassui Tokushล
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YouTube video by Peacefulness
Leonard Cohen on his Life as a Zen Monk
Cohen on Zazen: Things arise that are very disturbing and there's no way around it there's no way over it there's no way under it...you have to sit in the very bonfire of that distress and you sit there until you're burnt away and and it's ashes www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lww...
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Why Buddhism? I'll discuss a couple of quick reasons why we might want to consider adopting a Buddhist outlook and Buddhist practice into our lives.๐งก If yo...
Why Buddhism?
Today's video: Why Buddhism?
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YouTube video by The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford
Bryan D. Lowe: A Temple in Every Village? Buddhismโs Spread in Seventh- through Ninth-Century Japan
Here's a recent lecture I gave on temple construction and the spread of Buddhism to the Japanese provinces from the seventh through ninth centuries. This is basically a summary of the first three chapters of my new book, which will come out in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t_...
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Screenshot of jademountains.net
Just off a Zoom chat for a much needed catch up with Rev. Mugo. Do check out her blog. www.jademountains.net
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The Zen Journey of Shohaku Okumura
Zen master Shohaku Okumura's journey from postwar Japan to "good-for-nothing" meditation reveals profound insights on finding peace and meaning through simply being, challenging our goal-driven societ...
Zen master Shohaku Okumura's journey from postwar Japan to "good-for-nothing" meditation reveals profound insights on finding peace and meaning through simply being, challenging our goal-driven society with timeless wisdom. zenmasterdogen.com/the-zen-jour...
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It's a Fine Day
Nyogen Roshi explores Zen's core teachings on Samadhi and mind-nature, using Wumen Huikai's poem as a starting point. He emphasizes emptying the mind, avoiding discursive thinking, and realizing the e...
Nyogen Roshi explores Zen's core teachings on Samadhi and mind-nature, using Wumen Huikai's poem as a starting point. He emphasizes emptying the mind, avoiding discursive thinking, and realizing the ever-present Buddha-nature beneath our conditioned responses. zenmasterdogen.com/its-a-fine-d...
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Faith
Exploring how critical examination and personal experience transformed initial doubt into deep commitment, and why this faith feels fundamentally different from traditional religious belief.
Exploring how critical examination and personal experience transformed initial doubt into deep commitment, and why this faith feels fundamentally different from traditional religious belief. zenmasterdogen.com/faith/
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A bit more about me and the blog zenmasterdogen.com/about/
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Chair of Japanology at UZH. Philosopher. In love with language and music. Believes in the complementarity of the sciences and the humanities. Views my own.
Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
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Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
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Academic and author.
Research on symbols, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, death studies, disaster movies - with focus on Japan.
Also author of three novels so far & writing books about Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
My plan to save the world: Marry Western Enlightenment (Science, Reason, Humanism) with Eastern Enlightenment (understanding emptiness, meditation, taming the mind). That, and liberal, rules-based, pluralistic democracy.
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She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States
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Mindfulness teacher, Dir. Sense of Locality CIC, canal boater, ex photographer, ex charity digital lead, ex arts manager. Lives in London. Bass in the Wing It Singers Choir.
Hello! I'm Doug Smith, I run Doug's Dharma on YouTube and the Online Dharma Institute. I've also got a podcast "Diggin' the Dharma" with my friend Jon Aaron. PhD in philosophy.
Early Buddhism, meditation, philosophy of consciousness.
Author of American Koan. Zen Buddhism. Outer Space. Weird stuff. Pedagogy. Father. Board gamer.
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Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
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