Come, Thief: Telling & Retelling of a Story of a Zen Life

    Come, Thief Telling & Retelling of a Story of a Zen Life James Myoun Ford A Preface In my adolescence I stumbled upon Journeys on the Razor-edged Path. It was written by Simons Roof. I never learn

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Librarians as Guardians of Civilization: Recalling Clara Breed

    Clara Estelle Breed was born on this day, the 19th of March, in 1906, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. At her father’s death when she was fourteen the family located to San Diego. After she earned her master’

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Bhutan Adventure with Zen teachers James Ford & Gaelyn Godwin, and Others

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All Hail St Gertrude, Patron of Cats

Another under appreciated saint due to having to share the date with a super saint, is St Gertrude of Nivelles, whose feast is today, the 17th of March. Gertrude was a seventh century nun and abbess,

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Four Central Texts of Soto Zen Buddhism

      I was wandering around the interwebs when I found myself returning once again to the Sotoshu website, the site for the Japanese Buddhist church from which my own practice and ordinations derive.

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