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Realizing Takuhatsu As The Way

I have decided to return to Denver. It is there that I will continue to face the Buddha and practice the Way. I have had this spark of bodhicitta for a long time but have failed to put it into action effectively. It is only now that I am finally beginning to live my complete […]

Takuhatsu in America

My teachers’ teacher, Uchiyama Roshi, practiced Takuhatsu as a mendicant monk. In his book “Takuhatsu: Laughter Through the Tears”, Uchiyama Roshi says, “I thought there might be a crucial relationship between takuhatsu and religion that I could never really know. If there were some intrinsic reason why a person aspiring to live out a religious […]