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full text excerpts: The directness of Zen has led many to believe it stemmed from sources before the time of Buddha, 500 B.C. Zen might be called the inner art and design of the Orient. It was rooted in China by Bodhidharma, w

Lankavatara Sutra - translation from Sanskrit and commentary - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Heart Sutra : 1. translation 2. notes 3. chant Heart Sutra Form, sensation, perception, volition, consciousness are all empty. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form; for

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Painting Enlightenment - visions of the Heart Sutra

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Painting Enlightenment - Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra - the Buddhist art of Iwasaki Tsuneo - 2019

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Diamond Sutra - ‘The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion’

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Hsin Shin Ming

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link to full article excerpts: The origin and spread of Zen Zen Buddhism, which advocates the practice of Zen meditation, is an essential school of Buddhism. Zen Buddhism was founded by the first Bodhidharma, who came to China from

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Avatamsaka Sutra - The Flower Ornament Scripture … full text

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There is the real world, and there is the language world. And they don’t quite touch. If we live in the language world then we have a real problem. Because then we’re not in the real world. Zen is about touching the real world, the wo

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Below each index page image is a single word which gives a hint to the subject on that webpage.

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Clicking on any index page image opens a webpage, which most often contains an illustrated 1,000 word essay and an image collection. External links are provided to offer in-depth discussion of the subject.

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secondary webpage: marrow

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

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“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

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