We are all Buddhas, but not all of us follow the Way. In order to enter the Buddha Way, one has to make formless repentance, of taking refuge in …

In the original Sanskrit Buddhist texts, the concept of compassion is described by the words maitri and anukampa. Maitri indicates a sense of fellowship with others; anukampa describes a …

Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is one of the most popular sutta in the Pali Canon. English translations of the title include: “The Arousing of Mindfulness Discourse”, “The Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse”, …

Yvon Myoken Bec is a Soto Zen Master and the founding abbot of Mokusho Zen House in Hungary and Romania. Just before his death in 1990, Master Mokusho Zeisler …

Once the Lord was staying among the Magadhans at Matula. Then he said: “Monks!” “Lord,” they replied, and the Lord said: “Monks, be islands unto yourselves, be a refuge …

The word citta is, in fact, derived from the verbal root “citi” meaning to cognize or to know something as its object. The Pali-English dictionary gives the following basic …

*by Norman Fischer (originally published at Buddhadharma Magazine – Spring 2014.) From the beginning, Norman Fischer never had much use for Zen teachers—and he still doesn’t. But after years of being …

*Excerpt from the book Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama One day at Antaiji, I received a visit from a fifty-year-old American businessman who was the president of his …

On one occasion, the Bhagavā was staying at Bārāṇasi in the Deer Grove at Isipatana. There, he addressed the group of five bhikkhus: Bhikkhus. – Bhadante, the bhikkhus replied. …

Is been a long time since I first got at Hoboji, one of the main Zen temples in the Eastern Europe. I went there for one of the four …