In this post I’ll offer some dharma gems from Keizan Jōkin Zenji (1268–1325), the fourth generation in the Sōtō succession in Japan. Keizan is regarded as
Twenty-one years after the fact, my efforts to reconstruct my first trip to China produce a confusion of impressions in which multiple images are fused together and refuse to be unraveled or separated. Having lived in China for nineteen of those twenty-one years I moved up from Hong Kong less than a year after these “first” visits witness to much change and, in particular, the
Given the title of this node, I want to test this idea to destruction. The Diamond Sutra has the inconvenient misfortune of having been written before t.
Given the title of this node, I want to test this idea to destruction. The Diamond Sutra has the inconvenient misfortune of having been written before t.
Kaili Blues, an eccentric, remarkably assured first feature by the young Chinese director Bi Gan, is both the most elusive and the most memorable new movie that I’ve seen in quite some time “elusive” and “memorable” being central to Bi’s ambitions.Predicated on time travel but hardly science fiction, the film is set in and around Bi’s native Kaili, a city in China’s