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2014-06-01T07:39:37-06:00

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Great Tides Zen Fundraiser Wrap Up

Last updated on: June 1, 2014 at 7:39 am By Dosho Port

So far we’ve raised $8343 for the Great Tides Zen launch. We declare this fundraiser a complete, wonderful, 100% success! Pretty darn good, even, for a new little start up. Our goal, you may remember, was to raise $10,000 and we raised 83.43% of that. So what’s this about a 100% success? For this we rely on Dogen, of course, who declared in his piece on Kannon, “When what should be presented is presented, someone expressing eighty or ninety percent should be... Read more

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2014-05-24T12:06:36-06:00

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Five Fat Ranks for What Ails Us

Last updated on: May 24, 2014 at 12:06 pm By Dosho Port

Ross Bolleter, a Zen teacher in the Aitken-Tarrant line who teaches mainly in Australia, has a fine new book on Dongshan’s Five Ranks. This book will be the constant companion of students who take up the Five Ranks (or Five Modes if you prefer the less hierarchical language) deep in koan introspection or really anyone interested in the system. Most importantly, Bolleter speaks from inside the ranks – not from the scholarly chair of idle speculation. Now some apologists for... Read more

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2022-07-29T09:49:07-06:00

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We Invite You to Join the Fun

Last updated on: July 29, 2022 at 9:49 am By Dosho Port

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2014-04-30T20:43:58-06:00

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Leaping Free, the Primal Life, Deep and Bright

Last updated on: April 30, 2014 at 8:43 pm By Dosho Port

Recently, at the end of a long day of sorting and packing and hauling (omg, the hauling and stacking!) for our big move from house/zendo to our Portland, ME, Great Tides Zen destination for July 1, I opened up Dogen’s Extensive Record and a lovely koan lept from the page as if I’d never encountered it before. This one doesn’t occur in any of what have become the standard collections. Dogen found it in the Shumon Toyoshu (Collection of the... Read more

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2014-04-17T19:57:36-06:00

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Polyamory and Zen

Last updated on: April 17, 2014 at 7:57 pm By Dosho Port

Several years ago my parents celebrated their 60th anniversary. Tetsugan asked them, “How did you stay together all these years? What’s your secret?” Without batting an eye, my mom said, “We didn’t think we had a choice.” That’s meaningful on many levels and striking to me that now we have so many choices. One that has been emerging from the shadows lately – now that being gay and lesbian is trendy – is polyamory. It’s even the hot topic in... Read more

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2014-03-28T17:01:53-06:00

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Having Inconceivable Good Fortune

Last updated on: March 28, 2014 at 5:01 pm By Dosho Port

This is the fifth installment of six in the Plum Blossom series, based on talks Katagiri Roshi gave for Rohatsu, 1988 – his last Rohatsu before cancer and death on March 1, 1990. You can view the other installments here: Plum Blossoms I, Plum Blossoms II, Plum Blossoms III, and Plum Blossoms IV. Like everything, this is a collaboration by many. Once again, David Casacuberta kindly transcribed the talks and is now really getting Katagiri Roshi’s English. I have again edited... Read more

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2022-07-29T09:46:30-06:00

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Zen Won’t Save You: A Talk on Practicing Enlightenment

Last updated on: July 29, 2022 at 9:46 am By Dosho Port

“Zen Won’t Save You” is the title of the talk that Tetsugan and I will be offering on Tuesday, April 1st, from 7pm to 8:30pm, at the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, Maine. “Zen Won’t Save You?” Yesterday I was working on our new web site for Great Tides Zen with Paul, a Zen student and our web guy. When we reviewed the events page with “Zen Won’t Save You,” he said something like, “You do terrible marketing! You... Read more

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2014-03-01T10:34:31-06:00

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Plum Blossoms IV for Roshi’s 24th Memorial Day

Last updated on: March 1, 2014 at 10:34 am By Dosho Port

On this 24th Memorial of Katagiri Roshi’s death, I offer his “Plum Blossoms IV” to you, dear reader. You can view the other installments here: Plum Blossoms I, Plum Blossoms II, and Plum Blossoms III). Once again, David Casacuberta poured his big heart into the transcribing (thank you, David!) and someone who vaguely resembles the guy on the left (me on my homeleaving day in 1984 with Katagiri Roshi) again made a mess of it by doing the editing. “Plum... Read more

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2014-02-20T18:41:13-06:00

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Cybersanghas – Do They Work?

Last updated on: February 20, 2014 at 6:41 pm By Dosho Port

My contribution to Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Spring 2014, is now out and available. Click here for a bit of a tease. And subscribe if you’d like the whole piece. There’s also an interesting looking piece on the teacher-student relationship and with Koun Franz now involved with Buddhadharma, I’m expecting some really good things from this journal. By the way, my “balanced view” about cybersanghas is creating a bit of a stir in our Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for... Read more

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2019-09-15T14:20:39-06:00

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Watch Out for the Dog!

Last updated on: September 15, 2019 at 2:20 pm By Dosho Port

I stumbled on a Zen story a little while back that’s been tugging at me. I’m sure I’ve read it before but somehow it didn’t bite the first few dozen times through. Then Steve Heine pointed to it in Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism (review by yours truly here) and it sunk it’s teeth into my behind. One place the story shows up in classical literature is in the... Read more

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