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2014-12-19T13:41:25-06:00

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Is Zen a Religion?

Last updated on: December 19, 2014 at 1:41 pm By Dosho Port

When I was about sixteen, I confronted the Catholic priest in my little northern Minnesota hometown with my criticisms of the Catholic doctrine. He listened with a stricken look to my many objections to the faith and then simply said, “It is not our job to understand. God moves in mysterious ways.” “‘Mysterious,’ maybe,” I thought, “but would an omnipotent God be stupid?” So I rejected religion and went searching for the truth. First, I tried drugs, sex, and rocknroll,... Read more

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2014-11-26T15:45:57-06:00

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A Thanksgiving Prayer

Last updated on: November 26, 2014 at 3:45 pm By Dosho Port

May we all attain the way by giving the way to the way. May we give to each other as if we were giving away unneeded belongings to someone we don’t know, or offering flowers blooming on a distant mountain to thusness, or offering treasures we had in former lives. May we give ourselves to ourselves and others to others. Indeed, giving to ourselves is giving. Giving to our families is also giving. May we give even a phrase or... Read more

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2014-11-19T06:59:29-06:00

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Top Ten Issues for Zen Today

Last updated on: November 19, 2014 at 6:59 am By Dosho Port

We’ve been settling into Portland, ME, since our move here in July. For one thing, Bodhi sure looks comfortable on my zafu, no? For another, people don’t sound as “different” as they did when we moved. Heck, the other day I called my old health insurance company in Minneapolis and talked to a nice lady there about an issue that I was having. OMG, did she have a Fargo accent! We don’t talk like that around here, that’s for gall... Read more

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2014-11-08T11:42:33-06:00

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On the Embalming Fluid of Orthodoxy

Last updated on: November 8, 2014 at 11:42 am By Dosho Port

To the left you see Sengai’s wonderful rendition of the old masters Linji and Mazu. Are they embalmed or ruggedly themselves? And what’s it matter, anyway? James Myoun Ford and his Monkey Mind has this recent blog: ON ASPECTS OF THE REFORMATION OF SOTO ZEN BUDDHISM IN NORTH AMERICA. In this post, James gives a brief history of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and one of the central issues that the organization is dealing with now – standards for the training... Read more

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2014-11-01T13:47:17-06:00

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On Putting Unitive Awareness to Work in an Online Community

Last updated on: November 1, 2014 at 1:47 pm By Dosho Port

We’re in the middle of a twelve-week practice period in the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training and are having some conflict – a very good sign, imv, of practitioners digging in and taking this work personally. And then learning what needs to be dropped and how not to take it personally. First, a little background. Before the practice period begins, participants consider a personalized theme for their practice period, what we call... Read more

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2014-10-13T08:05:06-06:00

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Review of “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 8:05 am By Dosho Port

That’s by Sam Harris and it’s on the “New York Times Bestseller List” which I think is really interesting and cool – lots of people buying a book on waking up is wonderful. If only I’d gotten my act together here and alerted you earlier, you might have seen Sam in person in LA, New York, or San Francisco in September for $219 (about as much as a friend is spending to see Bob Dylan in concert next month). Sam’s... Read more

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"Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion"

Sam Harris

2014-09-30T08:33:02-06:00

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Twelve Points for Zen Practice

Last updated on: September 30, 2014 at 8:33 am By Dosho Port

The Buddha’s great discovery can be realized in this life. The Buddha’s great discovery is extraordinarily subtle and powerful. Zazen and Buddha’s enlightenment are in intimate relationship. Wholehearted zazen is a necessary condition for its rediscovery. A necessary condition for realized zazen practice is that it is undertaken with the intimate guidance of someone who has made this discovery. A necessary condition to become a “zazen person who without fail drops off body and mind”... Read more

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2014-11-16T06:50:23-06:00

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A Letter from Low Tide

Last updated on: November 16, 2014 at 6:50 am By Dosho Port

Dear blog reader, A few days ago, Tetsugan and I met our friends Melissa and David at the Porthole – a local breakfast hot spot on a wharf in Old Port. Right behind our table was a large painting of a lobster – a large lobster. A lobster that might eat Portland. Anyway, I noticed that the painter had signed his name “Kenneth T. Murphy, aka, Low Tide.” That gave us all a laugh – Tetsugan and I moved out... Read more

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2014-09-02T13:15:27-06:00

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Compassionate with Others, Strict with the Self

Last updated on: September 2, 2014 at 1:15 pm By Dosho Port

Today was the first day for morning zazen (aka, “Wake the Heck Up! Morning Zazen”) for Great Tides Zen here in Portland, ME. We walked down the wharf and into the Pierce Atwood Building with the lobster fishermen and seagulls. Seven people showed up and it was a lovely session. Getting up early enough to be at zazen and in our seats at 5:25am might sound rather severe. A phrase that Katagiri Roshi used often in guiding our practice comes to... Read more

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2014-08-26T07:10:55-06:00

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Guidelines for Studying the Way: Online Course Begins September 15th

Last updated on: August 26, 2014 at 7:10 am By Dosho Port

Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training is a new way of integrating zazen, dharma study and engaging the world through our practice. For the first time, we are offering our introductory course (appropriate for students with a wide-range of dharma experience), Guidelines for Studying the Way, as an 11-week session, September 15-November 24, and invite you to join the cohort that will work through the course together. The Vine began just a year-and-a-half ago and I’m delighted with how practitioners have... Read more

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