Consistency
Consistency is the quiet power behind zazen. Not because Zen is a self-improvement program, and not because sitting every day earns you points with the…
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The Paramitas
In Zen, the paramitas (often translated “perfections,” but more helpfully “ways of crossing over”) are not a ladder you climb to become holy. They’re the…
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I’m a Buddhist—and I’m still Jewish
I am Jewish. Not as a costume, not as a mood, not as a vague ancestry note on a family tree. I’m Jewish in the…
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Emptiness in Zen
Zen talks about emptiness the way a seasoned sailor talks about wind. It isn’t an abstract theory, and it isn’t a poetic garnish on top…
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The Eightfold Path: A Gentle Way of Living That Leads Beyond Suffering
The Four Noble Truths point with gentle clarity to what hurts, why it hurts, what relief feels like, and the way of living that supports…
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The Four Noble Truths – A Brief Introduction
In the Buddha’s first great teaching, the Four Noble Truths were offered not as a creed to believe in, but as something closer to a…
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Uechi Ryū Karate: An Introduction
Introduction Uechi Ryū (often written Uechi-ryu) is one of Okinawa’s most distinctive classical karate traditions: compact, close-range, relentlessly practical, and shaped as much by Southern…
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My Zazen
Zazen has never been a hobby for me. It has been closer to a long, quiet marriage with something that doesn’t flatter, doesn’t rush, and…
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Rohatsu
Rohatsu arrives in the Zen world the way winter arrives in the body: not as an idea, but as a change in the air. In…
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Good Grief and Greatness: The Life of Charles M. Schulz and the World of Peanuts
On an October morning in 1950, readers opened their newspapers and found something small and almost austere: four tiny panels about a round-headed boy walking…
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