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  • One Thing At A Time

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

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