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Zen Master Raven Stories
A brief excerpt from Zen Master Raven: The Teachings of a Wise Old Bird
By Robert AitkenA brief excerpt from Zen Master Raven: The Teachings of a Wise Old Bird
By Robert AitkenA fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the sky. However, the fish and the bird have never left their elements. When their activity is […]
Translated by [Robert, Aitken] and [Kazuaki, Tanahashi] Robert Aitken Kazuaki Tanahashi Eihei Dogen ZenjiMost of us cannot afford a separate room for zazen, but all of us can make a corner sacred. Put your pad and cushion there, with a low table or shelf for incense, flowers, and a picture of Shakyamuni, Bodhidharma, Kanzeon, or one of the other great bodhisattvas or teachers in our lineage. The room […]
By Robert AitkenAn introduction to Zen ethics
By Robert AitkenWhat is Zen? Robert Aitken provides three takes.
By Robert AitkenRobert Aitken Roshi offers a meditation on the ideal of circular giving, founded in an ancient Hawai’ian land-sharing custom
By Robert AitkenIn Robert Aitken Roshi’s forthcoming book, Zen Master Raven offers shrewd advice to his animal sangha.
By Robert AitkenTangle your eyebrows with your ancestral teachers and Robert Aitkin Roshi and laugh at Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’s unexpected counsels to beginning Zen students.
By Robert AitkenReginald Horace Blyth was born near London in 1898, the only child of working-class parents. By the start of World War I, he was eighteen and already an eccentric in his contemporaries’ eyes: he ate no meat, loved George Bernard Shaw, and became a conscientious objector to the war, for which he was jailed. After […]
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