Author: zenzdragon
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FRΛCTAL M1ND – SΞED CRYSTALLIZATION | ∞ TRΛNSFORMΛTION ∞
FREE PDF DOWNLOAD (390 pages): You can download the free PDF-file from this page: Final_-_2020-11-15-Production-V2.0-Awaken_The_Living_Awareness_Within_390_Pages-new-margins.pdf This book was originally published in Amazon bookstore in 11/11/2020 (original ISBN-13: 979-8556696266) and amazon store link B08NDT3GMH; now 5 years later 08/2025 it was purposefully released here on this website free of charge and thus no longer available for…
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David Chadwick’s Tassajara Stories
By Tova Green Prolific author and archivist David Chadwick may be best known for his biography of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. David’s newest book, Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West—The First Year, 1967 will be…
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Toro Nagashi Ceremony at Sokoji Temple
On Saturday, July 19, the Toro Nagashi Ceremony and lamp-floating event took place at Sokoji Temple, the Soto Zen Mission temple in Japantown, San Francisco. Lamps commemorating the Sangha’s ancestors were floated after the O-bon Ceremony. Toro Nagashi, or “floating lanterns,” is a beloved Japanese tradition marking the close of O-bon. Each August, countless…
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transcended… liberation… nirvana… website offline soon…
Nirvana… nibbana… nirvikalpa samadhi… nothing more to say… nothing more to do… nothing more to give… nothing more here for you… seek out liberation… this website will go offline soon…
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survival training
It started, as most things do, with me. I was the one who needed encouragement. After that impossible November day, it no longer mattered what I believed. It sure as hell wasn’t true. And then the fires from nowhere swept our homes. Everywhere, disasters exploded. Before long, we were broken by sickness, stress, and the…
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Dharma Entrustment Ceremony for Roger Hillyard
Photo by Matt Nickel Roger Hillyard (Henzan Tokuryu, Universally Seeking/Receiving the Stream) received Lay Teacher Entrustment from Central Abbot Ed Sattizahn on May 23, 2025. This ceremony recognizes Roger as a lay teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. In a statement, Roger said: “Lay Entrustment charged me with the responsibility to practice, model, and…
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Life is Suffering (Dharma Talk)
In this Dharma talk, I discuss Buddhism’s first noble truth, “Life is Suffering.” At first, this teaching may seem morbid and nihilistic. However, when we look deeper, we find that the first noble truth serves to change our perspective; giving us an “enlightened pessimism” that protects us from suffering. If you enjoyed this Dharma talk,…
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Change Is the Only Constant – The Existential Paradox: Part VII | Awaken the Living Awareness Within ∞ LIFΞ ∞
~ ∞ ~ Change Is the Only Constant – Awaken the Living Awareness Within ~ ∞ ~ If there’s anything certain in this world, it is the truth that everything in life is fleeting and impermanent; everything changes and nothing ever stays the same. Everything is in a constant flux of change, which goes on…
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Misunderstanding Zen
Kusen by Richard Reishin Collins, Abbot New Orleans Zen Temple Winter Sesshin Saturday, December 28, 2024 There is much to misunderstand in Zen teachings. Never take any instruction or description or pronouncement to be absolute—including this one. Here and now, for example, does not mean just here and just now. “Without benefit of words or…