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News Round Up for w/e 2nd February 2022

News and snippets from Zen cyber-space
This week from Zen Cyber Space, the Kung fu nuns of Tibet and how food can effect your mental health. 

News Round Up for w/e 28th January 2022

News and snippets from Zen cyber-space
This week from Zen cyberspace: exorcisms and calls to boycott the new Matrix: Resurrections film.

Forward from 'The Daily Devotional Chants of The Zen Centre'

Book Extracts 
Given that Buddhism is so concerned with self inquiry and self realisation, why is Buddhism also so devotional?

The Zen Koan by Isshū Miura & Ruther Fuller

Book Extracts
In this Book Extract, Zen Master Hakuin tells us how to find the  Buddha, urging us not to seek it in the sutras or words of men.

News Round Up for w/e 22nd January 2022

News and snippets from Zen cyber-space
This week from Zen Cyberspace, figures pay their respects to beloved Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh and the Buddhist Society’s fee online Buddhism course begins this week.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu; pub. Penguin Classics 1963

Book Extracts 
In this extract from the Tao Te Ching, we can see the overlap in wisdom between Taosim and Buddhism.

The Zen Community Launch: 1st February 2022

We are delighted to announce details of our new project - an online Dharma Centre - The Zen Gateway Community site, which will be opening on 1st February 2022. Please click the link for further details.

The Tiger’s Cave and Translations of Other Zen Writings by Trevor Leggett

Book Extracts
When it is attained in Zazen, the result is called Satori or realization. Zazen is, practice of infinity, conforming to the infinity which is the principle of the universe. 

News Round Up for w/e 12th January 2022

News and snippets from Zen cyber-space
This week from Zen cyberspace, university develops exoskeleton to aid Buddhist pilgrims and Japanese Buddhist monk combines electronic music and prayer a choreographed dance.

News Round Up for w/e 9th January 2022

news and snippets from Zen cyber-space
This week, mindfulness for kids - what to try and how much? Also composer Philip Glass to create music for a Smithsonian exhibition of Tibetan art.

Standing Buddha:

Images of Truth
In this extract from a Zen text from the Dun Huang caves, Master Nyuri explains the supernormal powers of The Buddha.

On What Does Our Dignity Stand?: A Policy for Disaster (part III)

Blog
Our sense of incompleteness is not an inherent part of human biology. Martin argues that the values of modernity may in fact be fueling this feeling of lack.
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