This is a talk I gave at the Rochester Zen Center on April 24, 2016 about Dogen and his essay "Mind Alone is Buddha." What the heck did he mean by that? Here's my attempt at answering that question.

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Dogen’s ”Mind Alone is Buddha”

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Space in Zen Buddhism

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Motivation for Meditation

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The Zen of Optimism

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Dogen's Tears

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Don't Anticipate and Don't Regret

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Thought Has No Answers

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Is Buddhism Anti-Children?

Religia i Duchowość

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Zen teacher/author Brad Warner, author of Hardcore Zen, Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen, Don't Be a Jerk, Sit Down and Shut Up, and many more books about Zen, shares his thoughts about Zen and other stuff.