The sacred radiance of our original nature never darkens.
It has shined forth since beginningless time.
Do you wish to enter the gate that leads to this?
Pick up your copy in the PZC gift shop.
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📚 When Zen people make a mess. 😂
YMJJ retreat was clearly productive!
Available in our gift shop: Compass of Zen and Composting Our Karma. the others you'll have to track down yourself.
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📚 This week's Zen Read is Do Nothing by Manu ‘Won Jin’, Boddhissatva Teacher at Chogye International Zen Center of NY
Do Nothing is an introductory guide to Zen meditation for children and followers of the gradual school. 😉
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The Great Way is not difficult!
📚 This weekend's Zen Read is Hsin Hsin Ming, the classic poem by the Third Patriarch of Zen, Seng T'san. Available for free from kwanumzen.org, translated by Zen Master Hae Kwang (Stan Lombardo).
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📚 This weekend's Zen Read is The Mirror of Zen: The Classic Guide to Buddhist Practice by Zen Master So Sahn.
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📚 This weekend's Zen Read is The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, including chapters from several Kwan Um School of Zen teachers
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📚 This weekend's Zen Read is Three Zen Sutras: The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, and The Platform Sutra.
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📚 This weekend's Zen Read is the latest issue of Primary Point, the teaching journal of the Kwan Um School of Zen, including an excerpt from Composting Our Karma by Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Bobby Rhodes). Find it online at buff.ly/sDUtRgi, or pick up a copy at PZC.
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📚 This weekend's Zen Read is No-Nonsense Zen for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Zen Teachings by Jason Quinn JDPSN.No-Nonsense Zen is available in the PZC House Library & gift shop and online.
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Providence Zen Center House Library
Pamphlets from Buddhist Publication Society
PZC House Library Part Deux is in place outside the upstairs dharma room.
While you're at it, don't forget to explore the Little Free Zen Library in the niche near the entrance!
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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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Stones rise up into the sky
Fire burns down in the water
Ride your horse along the edge of a sword;
Hide yourself in the middle of the flames
Blossoms of the fruit-tree bloom in the fire
The sun rises in the evening
-from Zen-rinkushu
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What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn’t explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.
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There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
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Rashomon book cover
“Truly human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning”
From ‘The testimony of a traveling Buddhist priest,’ In a grove, Rashomon.
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Not the advice we expected, but perhaps the advice we needed to hear? 😁
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