Summer 2016

Vol. 34 No. 4 Summer 2016
Earth Medicine

To arouse aspiration for enlightenment is to
pick up a blade of grass and manifest a buddha
image, to take up a rootless tree and create a sutra.

— Dogen

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Build a True Sanctuary, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
How do we take care of this great earth and every thing?

A Daring Compassion, Suzanne Taikyo Gilman
Editorial

A Great Love, Thanissara
Spiritual practice helps us to meet reality—including climate change—not hide from it.

Orchard Revival, Linda Shinji Hoffman
Healing the earth where you live, with your hands, mind, and your whole body.

Arousing the Aspiration for the Unsurpassable, Dogen
Scoop up valley water, or hold up emptiness, to build a stupa and create a buddha image.

Sangha Reflections: On Earth Medicine

Mountains and Rivers Order
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