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Norman Fischer, a former Abbott of the San Francisco Zen Center, has emphasized our resistance to leaving everything alone, and the temptation to turn zazen into a technique: “The problem is that we actually are incapable of seeing zazen as useless because our minds cannot accept the fundamental genuineness, the alrightness of our lives. We are act
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
—Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
—Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
The rarity and preciousness of human life. The inevitability of death. The awesome and indelible power of our actions. The inescapability of suffering.
Norman Fischer • Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
The justified pastor—the man justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to God’s glory alone, who happens to be a pastor—when taken on his good day or bad day, ministry high or ministry low, will be received with gladness and welcome. Clothed in the righteousness of him in whom you trust, how can you be turned away? You will not b
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