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Saturday, October 14, 2017

The Difficulty of Receiving Buddhism in the West

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.  A primary difficulty of receiving Buddhism into the West (as a psycho-social cultural context) is due to the peculiarity that Buddhi...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

A response to James Ford’s Blog on Modernist Buddhism

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. James Ford’s take on Modernist Buddhism seems to present a noble hope for an integration of Buddhism with a Western world view that i...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A Zen Soliloquy

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. To sit, or not to sit, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous karma ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

So the Universe rests on imperfection, who would have guessed?

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. The Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle, Is rarely encountered, even in hundreds of thousands of millions of kalp...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

One Vehicle Zen

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Personally, the one most important point about the history of Chan/Zen that I think is most under recognized, understated, and undervalued...

Earth Day Requires Repudiation of Capitalism

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EARTH DAY RANT: I'll be blunt. If you support Earth Day but don't see the relevance of an economic analysis that demonstrates the f...
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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Caveats, Corrections, and Clarifications

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This is a new feature for the TWW Blog with the hope of adding a little more coherence to the line up.   Under the title of “Caveats, Corr...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

The Unconscious in Buddha Dharma

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             As we in the West are discovering the teachings of Buddha Dharma about mind and consciousness, we are confronted with the neces...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Linji on Turning the Light Around

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Here's a passage from the Record of Linji that I have finished translating today.  This comes from near the end of the untitled Part O...