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Alasdair Taisen Gordon-Finlayson
Mon 30 August 2010 - (1 comment)

The second in my occasional series on the Ancestors that we dedicate merit to during our service.  This time, Daikan Eno – better known to most as Huineng, the Sixth Ancestor of Zen.

Keizan Scott Sensei
Mon 23 August 2010 - (1 comment)
In the final part of this three-part series, Sensei writes about shukke tokudo, "leaving home to enter the Way" - the ordination as priest or monk, and what it means in our lay-oriented tradition.
Keizan Scott Sensei
Mon 16 August 2010 - (0 comments)

This week's post comes from a talk given at the Liverpool Dojo on 28th July by Keizan Sensei, on case 16 from the Mumonkan (Gateless Barrier), one of the major koan collections. 

In a bit of an experiment, instead of a regular blog post, this post is an audio recording of that talk.  Hopefully we'll be able to do more of these in the future.

Click through to the rest of this post to listen to Sensei's talk, and remember you can as ever leave comments for Sensei and the rest of us.  Would also really like to get feedback on what you think about having more talks like this available.

John Suigen Kenworthy
Mon 9 August 2010 - (2 comments)
A story from John Suigen's life that includes this great paragraph: "Sudden, unwanted and dramatic life events can at times be a real challenge in my zen practice. Being told that such events are "a good life koan," or that  "Now! ...is the time to practice" has the same flavour of being reminded that there are people in the world with much bigger problems than you. You know it to be true but it doesn't seem to take you anywhere at the time."

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