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Retreat!

by on June 22, 2009 in Zen

Just a few days left until our Better Than Good workshop in Boulder, Utah.  We have a great group coming from around the United States and abroad–and we still have a few spots left! If you’d like to bring a friend, please do–your friend will get a 25% discount on the registration fee. Again, the workshop will be held in [...]

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The Value of Not Knowing

by on June 20, 2009 in Zen

Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei talks about the first two Koans of the Blue Cliff Record and the ability to not know, as opposed to thinking that you know things. Knowing restricts you; not knowing is an open field. 1 of 2 2 of 2

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Intent

by on June 16, 2009 in Zen

We have learned how to do things by thinking . . . and thinking can be a good tool.  It’s not the whole tool set.  When all you have is a hammer every problem tends to look like a nail.  We think, choose and act–well, sometimes.  A lot of the time we just think and then [...]

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A Box and Its Lid

by on June 7, 2009 in Zen

This photographic show by Caryn Shudo Silberberg is the first part of a poem in images about the relationship of the ordinary and the sacred.  It is the result of long training in Zen as well as the photographic tradition that runs through John Daido Loori Roshi and Minor White to us. – Doen “Within [...]

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