Reasons for Retranslating the Heart Sutra

by | Feb 14, 2017 | Articles/PDFs

“Dear Family, The reason Thay must retranslate the Heart Sutra is because the patriarch who originally recorded the Heart Sutra was not sufficiently skillful enough with his use of language. For this reason, it has caused much misunderstanding for almost 2,000...

Being Met by the Reality Called Mu

by | Jul 9, 2016 | Articles/PDFs

Of Koans : “R. H. Blythe said that Zen is poetry. What does he mean by poetry? Certainly he did not use the word poetry in the sense of what we commonly call verse. Rather, he meant that the essence of Zen, like the world of poetry, comes from the spontaneous,...

Reflections on Receiving Jukai

by | Jul 9, 2016 | Articles/PDFs

“What is this life really about? Many people throughout space and time have asked this question. As Buddhist practitioners, we have a vehicle for reflecting on this question — the Precepts or Jukai. In Japanese, Kai means ‘vow’ and Ju conveys ‘to let go.’ Daido...
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