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New Mind for the New Year: Reclaiming Our Scattered Attention

When Bankei was preaching at Ryumon temple, a Shinshu priest, who believed in salvation through the repetition of the name of the Buddha of Love, was jealous of his large audience and wanted to debate with him. Bankei was in the midst of talk when the priest appeared, but the fellow made such a disturbance […]

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The Hardest Part of Practice: Practicing!

Aristotle once made a distinction between five forms of knowing:  Phronesis (practical knowledge), episteme(knowledge), sophia (wisdom), techne (skill), and logos (reason).  Phronesis is expertise forged by experience, the authority of a subject earned through practice.  Episteme, on the other hand, is declarative knowledge generated through research and study.  The challenge of shaping a life lies

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