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One Thing At A Time
Lao Tzu said: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It is from chapter 64 of Tao Te Ching, and…
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The Flower Sermon
In history, the Buddha delivered so many words for wisdom. His students recorded them as a volume of countless sutras. They spent their entire…
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I and Thou
How can we know we do exist? Touching the ground, can we feel we are standing on it? Holding our body, can we sense…
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The Imitation of Christ
If we would go back to the stricter tradition, Advent is the season for fasting just like Lent. Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches still…
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Moon on the Water
Zen Mater, Dōgen (1200-1253) once said: Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the…
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Supernaturally Real
When we were a child, we were afraid of darkness. Waking up in the middle of the night, we had to be courageous enough…
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Breathing, the Third Eye
There are various kinds of meditation in Buddhism. Well-known is a sitting meditation called Zazen (座禅) in Japanese. Sitting straight, we focus on subtle…
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The World Around Us, The Universe Beyond Us
Language is one of the essential tools for communication. And it is more for one of our critical tools to understand the world around…
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Beyond Sensors
There are three types of eyes for us to see the world and live in it. The first could be our physical eye. It…
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Consciousness Only
In Mahayana Buddhism, there is the school called Consciousness Only (唯識）As the Four Noble Truths say, if there is no such thing as a…
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A Small Village
We are enjoying the tremendous achievements of our modern and postmodern civilization. Through various global communications such as the Internet and advanced systems of…
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The Three Poisons
Life is suffering. It is the first of the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism. And the second is that the cause of this suffering…