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BDG News: Berkeley Zen Center to Install First Female Abbot in Historic Leadership Transition

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February 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ryokan Taigu (1758–1831) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Why do you so earnestly seek / the truth in distant places? / Look for delusion and truth in the / bottom of your own heart. — Ryokan Taigu (1758–1831)
March 2, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Coffee, Fuente Double Chateau Sungrown, Dogen translations.

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February 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Rough week at work but happy to have #zazen each morning with my #sangha to start the day out right. It's all practice!
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October 25, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Fascinating quote from Shohaku Okumura . . .

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October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: What is the way of the Buddha? To study the way of the Buddha is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. — Dogen Zenji (1200–1253)
March 25, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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✨ Seek within your own heart ✨

🪷 Poetic wisdom from Ryokan Taigu (1758–1831) 🪷

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ryokan Taigu (1758–1831) 🪷
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March 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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✨ The way of the Buddha

🪷 Awakening wisdom from Dogen Zenji (1200–1253)

💛 In this moment, what remains if the sense of ‘I’ is let go?

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) 🪷
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March 25, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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✨ Nothing is outside the Dharma ✨

🪷 Poetic wisdom from Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) 🪷

💛 Where do you recognize Buddha-nature in this moment? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) 🪷
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January 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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✨ Zen is the direct experience of reality ✨

🪷 Direct wisdom from Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) 🪷

💛 What remains when beliefs and ideas fall away? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) 🪷
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December 31, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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BDG news: Louisiana Executes Buddhist Death Row Inmate Amid Controversy Over Nitrogen Hypoxia

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Louisiana Executes Buddhist Death Row Inmate Amid Controversy Over Nitrogen Hypoxia  - Buddhistdoor Global
A man who converted to Buddhism has been executed in the U.S. despite numerous pleas for mercy from advocates and supporters
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April 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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A frog also sits like us, but he has no idea of zazen. When your life is a part of your surroundings, then there is no problem. - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Minds

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May 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Sodo Yokoyama (1907–1980) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The sunset doesn’t know it’s the sunset, but it is the sunset. And as with the sunset, all things are like disappearing thoughts. — Sodo Yokoyama (1907–1980)
April 8, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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本だといまいちわからないときがあるから、動画でも勉強してるけど、見れば見るほど煩悩しか湧かない
僧侶は美しい…。

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曹洞宗 大本山永平寺
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March 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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BDG feature: Book Review: Eihei Dogen Zenji’s The Roots of Goodness

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Book Review: Eihei Dogen Zenji’s The Roots of Goodness - Buddhistdoor Global
Nachaya Campbell-Allen reviews a new translation of Eihei Dogen Zenji’s treatise on goodness.
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March 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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✨ Just as it is ✨

🪷 Contemplative wisdom from Sodo Yokoyama (1907–1980) 🪷

💛 What is this moment, just as it is? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Sodo Yokoyama (1907–1980) 🪷
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April 8, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind: #NewPairOfEyes youtu.be/PCFo5q0ZjKk #ZenMind #BeginnersMind #ShunryuSuzuki #Zazen #Buddhism #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #NonDualism #InnerPeace #SelfDiscovery #MentalDiscipline #SotoZen
New Pair of Eyes: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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March 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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The new translation of Dogen Zenji's Shobogenzo will soon be made available to the wider public. Yes, it is expensive, but this is a deep well from which you can keep drinking for the rest of your life.
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Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, Eight-Volume Set
This publication represents an English rendering of one of the great classics of Japanese Buddhism, the Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏, by Dōgen 道元(1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen school. The translation was …
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November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Recorded a podcast with @iankilroy.bsky.social this morning. Can’t wait to share it with all of you. In the meantime check out his book, published by Wisdom Publications.

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Do Not Try to Become a Buddha - The Wisdom Experience
A Zen Buddhist priest paints a picture of Zen in Ireland in this collection of short essays. In this collection of short essays, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy describes how he came to practi...
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January 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#rohatsu day 6(?) I am losing track #zenbuddhism #Sotozen
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Here's an interesting approach, happiness is bad for you. The Four Noble Truths in Buddhism propose a method of escaping suffering, they don't mandate or encourage happiness.
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A 1992 paper proposed classifying happiness as a psychiatric disorder
A 1992 Journal of Medical Ethics paper argued happiness meets every diagnostic criterion for a psychiatric disorder — and it was satire.
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March 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Zen is not a theory, an idea, or a piece of knowledge. It is not a belief, dogma, or religion. Zen is not dependent on words or letters. It is not something to be found outside of ourselves. Zen is the direct experience of reality, free from any mental or conceptual constriction. — Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982)
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move. — Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971)
February 3, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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Please consider donating to our small Sōtō Zen center in Northern California: tinyurl.com/yfdtk4xk Every little bit helps us pay the bills and keep an old tradition alive. Thank you kindly 🙏 #zen #zenbuddhism #buddhism #sotozen
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October 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM