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Meditation Merits

Good morning! Practicing zazen is practicing the original openness, wholesome whole, joyful journey, full freedom, pure peace. 7/6/11 Zazen is stopping all karmas, human hindrances, and thus leads to limitless merits and benefits. So, its characteristics are not limited by … Continue reading

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Beyond Billows

  Good evening! Suddenly many flowers have started blooming. Magnolias, pears, plums, hyacinths, forsythia… just after ohigan, ???, the spring equinox. Magnolia in Japanese is mokuren, ??, wooden lotus. We say “atusa samusa-mo higan-made” (Heat and chill until the equinox. … Continue reading

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