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Einen schönen Guten Morgen! 😀 👋

Ich wünsche uns einen ruhigen und entspannten .

Wunderbare Ruhe strahlt die Pagode Gojūnotō des buddhistischen Tempels Kōfuku-ji im japanischen Nara aus. Die Anlage stammt aus der Zeit um 720, als Nara für ca. 80 Jahre die Hauptstadt des japanischen Kaiserreichs war.

I’m diving into the Pali language (both to learn it and to build an app for it), and it’s surprising how close it is to Russian grammatically.

Despite 25 centuries of separation, it has almost the same set of cases, a similarly reduced number of tenses (especially compared to English or Spanish), and the same three grammatical genders.

It seems that modern Slavic languages have stayed quite close to Proto-Indo-European.

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Shinshu Roberts, 2025

In this clarifying new commentary, esteemed Zen teacher Shinshu Roberts takes readers on a journey to understand Japan’s great Buddhist philosopher. Roberts applies her deep familiarity with Dōgen’s work to illuminate the text as a unified story in which Dōgen reveals the nondual nature of reality.

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