Mahapajapati

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The first bhikkhuni

By Julia Hirsch, Laura Wein

Sep 16, 2016

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Roused from a Dream

Restoring Zen’s female lineage

by Mary Fowles | illustrations by Barbara Cooper

Summer 2014

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More than This Body

We can’t rid ourselves of bodily pain, but by changing how we relate to it, we can awaken our minds.

By Ezra Bayda

Jun 25, 2018

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The Buddhist Review

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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