This is a traditional Japanese rite of passage celebration for ages three, five, and seven, considered crucial years in a child’s development.
Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness
“Things speak all the time, but if your ears aren’t attuned, you have to learn to listen.”
Forgotten the Value of Religion: Awakening the Archive, Tape 5
“This kind of ‘I’ is called inmost ‘I,’ or ultimate ‘I.’ It cannot be the subject of study, or philosophy, or science, or psychology.”
Study Yourself: Awakening the Archive, Tape 4
“When you forget yourself … you take the true activity of the big existence. When we realize this, there is no problem whatsoever in this world.”
Calmness: Awakening the Archive, Tape 3
“When you try to do something, itself it is enlightenment. It is expression of our true nature.”
Revitalizing Is Beneficial to Life: Meet Sally Chang, Qigong and Taiji Teacher
The word Qigong combines ‘Qi,’ the vital energy that exists in all living things, and ‘gong,’ the development of skill through work and persistence.
Awakening the Archive: The Exciting Discovery of 29 Lost Suzuki Roshi Lectures
SFZC and Engage Wisdom are pleased to offer these previously unavailable talks; completion of the project will coincide with SFZC’s 60th anniversary.
Beginner’s Mind: Awakening the Archive, Tape 1
“Even though you read Zen literature you have to keep this beginner’s mind. You have to read it with fresh mind.”
Wisdom Seeks for Wisdom: Awakening the Archive, Tape 2
“You don’t do anything, but let our true nature work by itself. This is Zen practice.”