Koun Yamada

Great Faith, Great Doubt, Great Determination

The three essential conditions for Zen practice

By Koun Yamada, Artwork by Cecil Touchon

Summer 2015

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Buddha Buzz Weekly: June 16, 2018

Reasons your boss might not want you to meditate, new online resources, and a Thai monk seeks asylum in Germany. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

By Matthew Abrahams

Jun 16, 2018

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What Wild Wild Country Missed

In following the “true crime” model, the Netflix documentary sidesteps larger spiritual questions and the historical import of the countercultural movement.

By Curtis White

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Practicing with Zen Koans in Your Everyday Life

Our intellects can help us surmise that one plus one equals two, or that we need a key to start the engine of our car, but in the face of existential questions, ordinary understanding comes to a screeching halt. Master Bon Yeon (Jane Dobisz), the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center, says that koan practice begins in these “don’t know” spaces—the questions we can’t rationalize or figure out.

Zen Master Bon Yeon

Jun 2018

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