Genjo Koan

  • The Wrote Podcast

    Interested in finding out more about me, my writing and where the idea for Make the Dark Night Shine came from? Please check out my interview on the Wrote Podcast on 24 May 2024

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  • The Fundamental Point and Make the Dark Night Shine

    Originally penned in 1233 and revised in 1252 by Eihei Dōgen, The Genjō Kōan: Actualizing the Fundamental Point is considered one of the founding documents of Japanese Zen Buddhism. Written as a prose poem, Dōgen´s words are Zen itself, moving, paradoxical, enlightening and living. For almost one thousand years, Zen practitioners and scholars have written

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