Platform Sutra Problems With The Platform Sutra: Dogen ...if you have a problem with the buddhadharma and don't even consider the possibility that it might be your personal problem, you really aren't in that moment studying the buddhadharma.
The Platform Sutra Problems With The Platform Sutra: Scholars There is a strong consensus among Buddhist scholars that "The Platform Sutra" is not what it presents itself to be....
secret acts of kindness Featured Secret Acts of Kindness and He Gets Us Why not create a world of kindness together?
Paid-members only Record of Going Easy This Breath Turns Millions Of Scrolls: An Invitation For The Ancestor To Go To East India
Zhiyi Featured Three Big Sublime Stopping Mistakes ... denial that stopping is possible, the exaggerated concern about attachment to stopping, and confusing stopping with seeing.
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured Vine Zen Writing: '23 Roundup and What's Coming in '24 I'm writing today to give you a quick and organized way to view what's been offered here from the Vine Writing Department over the last several months and what is probably coming in '24.
Members only Ten Line Kannon Universal Gate: Context for Great Compassion Training with “The Ten Line Life Prolonging Kannon Sutra”
Hakuin Breaking News: Hakuin Zenji Named Vine of Obstacles Zen Abbot Emeritus "I want all of you to be aware that the study of Zen can effect a miraculous transformation that will change you to the very marrow of your bones." Hakuin Zenji
Koan A Goose in a Bottle: How Will You Be Free? Kannon Bodhisattva pays us a visit, drops their usual name and form, enters us, and turns in accord with the circumstances as they are.
Paid-members only Record of Going Easy Dizang Planting the Fields: “What Do You Call the Three Worlds?”
Ten Line Kannon Zazen and Great Compassion: Realizing a Soft and Flexible Mind Therefore, within zazen they do not forget living beings, and they do not discard living beings, including even insects and worms, but always compassionately remember them for their benefit.
