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The 5 Conditions (or Skandhas, or Aggregates) create our false sense of a permanent, substantial “self”: Form (Rupa) – The aggregate of form corresponds to what we would call material or physical factors. It includes the material objects that surround us in the world. This also includes our physical bodies and the five physical sense…

In 1990, Carl Sagan persuaded NASA to use the Voyager 1 spacecraft to take a photograph of the planet Earth from a distance of 4 billion miles. The result was simply arresting: a portrait of our home as a tiny, fragile speck of blue adrift in an unimaginably vast sea of space. In a commencement…

NOTE: BECAUSE OF A BUG AT USTREAM, THE NETCAST MAY START TO PLAY UP TO ABOUT 5 MINUTES AFTER HITTING THE PLAY BUTTON. SO, HIT THE PLAY BUTTON AND SIT ZAZEN FOR 5 MINUTES WHILE WAITING. IT WILL START, AND IS GOOD FOR PRACTICING PATIENCE AND ACCEPTANCE. I would like to announce the next book…

Today, Will and I joined up with Hans to sit at “Eiheiji Betsuin Chokoji” Temple in Tokyo, an active training temple which is a branch of Eiheiji Head Temple. We sat with the open Monday Zazenkai. Like yesterday, though, we could not bring cameras into the sitting, so there is no recording today. But please…
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