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Profile: San Francisco Zen Center

By David Chadwick — 2002

n 1959, a Zen priest named Shunryu Suzuki was sent from Japan to take over Sokoji. While he didn’t deny the significance of intellectual study, his constant teaching was to sit down and follow the breath—to do zazen—and to bring the practice of awakening into one’s daily life.

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Guided Buddhist Meditations: Essential Practices on the Stages of the Path

The Stages of the Path, or lamrim, presentation of Buddhist teachings (a step-by-step method to tame the mind) is a core topic of Buddhist study. The lamrim meditations remind us that the process of transforming the mind, unlike so much of our frantic modern society, is a slow and thoughtful one.

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Thubten Chodron, H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
2025
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Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses

The ensuing pages present a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.

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Bhikkhu Anālayo
2021
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The Buddha Walks into the Office | Lodro Rinzler | Talks at Google

Lodro Rinzler, Buddhist author and meditation teacher, stops by Google NYC to talk about his latest book, "The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation"

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Lodro Rinzler
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2015
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The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation

The Buddha Walks into a Bar is a book for those who are spiritual but not religious, who are disillusioned by the state of the world, who are sick of their jobs (and just started last Tuesday), who like drinking beer and having sex and hate being preached at, who are striving to deepen their social...

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Lodro Rinzler
2012
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In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries.

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov
2019
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The Four Lineages of Tibetan Buddhism

In this video, Mingyur Rinpoche introduces the four main lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He gives a brief history of each, and touches upon what they have in common, and also their unique characteristics. He also explains how different personalities might be drawn to a particular lineage.

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
2019
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