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A large collection of articles, from past issues of New Chan Forum and more besides.

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  • Eddy Street

    Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson

    Eddy Street | 01-06-1998

    I've been throwing basketballs for almost as long as I have been sitting. At about the same time that I began to sit regularly I started attending a Keep Fit evening class where basketball is the staple diet. So most Thursday evenings will see me along with a group of similarly middle aged and slightly overweight (?) men running up and down a gym trying to throw a ball into a suspended basket.

    So…

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    Dharma Hunger: A Western Zen Retreat Poem

    Eddy Street | 01-06-1992

    The Universe is as the Boundless Sky,
    I should have had another piece of bread and jam
    As lotus blossom above
    I wonder if we'll have tea after this meal
    unclean water,
    Pure and beyond the World is the mind
    Bloody Buddhist Ceremonials
    of the trainee,
    O Silence of Nature
    Don't like him
    We take refuge in Thee
    Here we go again.

    Calm and Clear

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