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Which Is The True One?

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Record of Going Easy

Engrave It On Your Bones, Carve It In Your Flesh

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True Kensho: An Ordinary Person Wakes Up

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Sesshin

Song of the Dragon Sesshin

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This Breath Turns Millions Of Scrolls: An Invitation For The Ancestor To Go To East India

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Dharma Gates to the Sublime: Seeing, Turning, Purifying

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Three Big Sublime Stopping Mistakes

... denial that stopping is possible, the exaggerated concern about attachment to stopping, and confusing stopping with seeing.

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Dharma Gates to the Sublime: Counting, Following, Stopping

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Snowy Day, Big Ship

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Breath Featured

Aligning the Breath: Windy, Uneven, Ordinary, and Subtle

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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.

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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.

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Record of Going Easy

Dizang Planting the Fields: “What Do You Call the Three Worlds?”

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Awakening

Happy Awakening Buddha Day

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Transferring the Merit: The Essence of Great Vehicle Great Compassion

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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.

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Not Apart From This Mind: Kanzeon!

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Record of Going Easy

The Method is Knowing How to Soar: Linji's Blind Donkey

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Tangen Harada

Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha: The Dharma Talk by Kogen Czarnik Osho

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Ten Line Kannon

Mornings Nen Kanzeon: More on the Ten Line Kannon Sutra

Dogen

Gifts for the Seven Wise Sisters from a Couple Brothers with the Same Mother

Hakuin Zenji emphasizes the importance of dharma expression to benefit living beings, especially by offering poison words that disrupt delusions and allow the pure wind of wild awakening to blow forth.

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Ten Line Kannon

Understanding the "Ten Line Kannon Sutra": Don't Do It!

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Ten Line Kannon

Constancy, Joy, Self, Purity: A Wake Up Call