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Buddha Sees Everything

We have been contacted by Ciska Shizuka Matthes, who started her Zen pracrice with Genpo Roshi’s Kanzeon Sangha in the 1990s, about a book she has recently published about her Zen training in Japen. We are sharing the information here in case of interest to you. She says “Last year, I published the translation of […]

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Dheeresh Turnbull Sensei – Cancer, Aikido, Big Mind, and Zen – a personal reflection

  ‘Fighting cancer’ I discovered recently that my prostate cancer has come back.  When my prostate was removed in 2021, they said they’d got all of it.  But apparently some escaped.  I did big mind with the cancer before that operation, and it said, “I’ll get you if I can”.  When I thought I was […]

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