Dainin Katagiri Roshi

Dainin Katagiri Roshi (1928-1990) was the founder and abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of several other books, including Returning to Silence and Each Moment Is the Universe.
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You Are Already Here

Life is very difficult to understand through ideas alone, wrote Dainin Katagiri, the late abbot of the Minnesota Zen Center. But there is one thing that you can trust in: you are fully alive right now.

By Dainin Katagiri Roshi

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