Sublime

(see the Appendix for info on the 2009 edition, the “Shin Shogen”),

I am who I am right now. And that very state of being is the Buddha.

like the great nineteenth-century Ri-me master Paltrül Rinpoche, sleeping in ditches or hollows at night.

describe, the nothingness, that wham of past, present, future gone—no separation between past and present. There is no self, absolutely none. The redwoods parted and it was whitish and granular, particulate, like seeing between the atoms. Who knows how long it lasted, but I found myself still walking when I arrived back, and my immediate thought wa

To him, taijiquan is a living art with an inherent responsibility between teacher and student to adhere to its principles as a living foundation from which to understand and create credible refinements.

“Dwelling in one's true abode, unconcerned with that without. The river flows tranquilly on and the flowers are red. From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water is emerald, the mountain is indigo,

As another Zen teaching says, “The path is right beneath your feet.”