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Records of High Monks and The Gateless Gate
Thich Nhat Hanh • My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
And being urged on by intense dedication, I disregarded misfortune and slander And received oral instruction on taming ego-fixation. Now, even at death, I will have no regrets. bibliography Chödrön, Pema.
Pema Chödrön • Start Where You Are: How to accept yourself and others
Are there any serene, gentle monastics from Chögyam Trungpa’s generation who have accomplished this much in the West? I’m still looking.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
Never in his lifetime, however, did Kōmei see any foreigners. Indeed, he probably knew next to nothing about them at the time his prayers were offered at the Iwashimizu Shrine, and he learned little more during the rest of his reign; but he was absolutely sure that the presence of foreigners (or, more specifically, Western foreigners) was an intole
... See moreDonald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

The Zen sect practices instantaneous mental communication of truth from mind to mind in dialogues of silence.
Soseki Natsume • I Am A Cat (Tuttle Classics)
Izanagi
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free from defilement or belief in a self