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Wind by Phyllis Reid | with commentary by Martin Goodson

Poet's Corner
This is what it feels like to give 'myself' wholeheartedly into the everyday activities of life.
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Poet's Corner | Curated by Michael Haggiag

How to use poetry in Zen training.

Seated Buddha, Java/Sumatra 9th Century

Images of Truth
A 9th Century Buddha from Sumatra, with an accompanying verse explaining how to directly see the Dharma.

Maitreya: Sumatra 9th Century

Images of Truth
The bodhisattva Maitreya is the Buddha in waiting who will teach the Buddha’s way once the Dharma has been forgotten again.

Frieze fragment of figures beside a chakra (wheel)

Images of Truth
A fragment relief from Southeast India, accompanied by an excerpt from Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma 

Monkey | Chapter 15

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
Everyone is blaming Monkey for their misfortune again but surely this time it isn’t his fault?

Curse of the Werewolf

The Alchemy of Transformation
Martin takes a look at how spiritual power can turn humans into monsters.

Monkey | Chapter 14

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
In this episode, the monk Tripitaka stumbles across a particular Monkey who has been trapped under a mountain…

Monkey | Chapter 13

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
In this episode the monk Tripitaka sets out on his long journey to retrieve the lost Buddhist texts but what will the naïve monk do when he comes face to face with the horrible dangers he was warned about?

Monkey | Chapter 12

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
In this chapter, the unfortunate couple Liu and his wife Blue lotus, who having being returned to the land of the living, finds that her soul has been placed in the recently deceased Princess Jade Bud's body.

Monkey | Chapter 11

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
In this Episode, the Emperor faces a trial by the Judges of Death for killing the Dragon King in his dream.

Monkey | Chapter 10

Stories Retold: Journey to the West
In this Episode, the Dragon King makes a bet with a fortune teller unaware that his bet is against Fate itself.
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