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The Essence of Healthy Sexual Intimacy Many years ago a group of us students of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi were engaged in a question-and-answer session with our teacher. Someone asked, "What about sex?" Roshi replied, "Once you say sex, everything is sex! . . . Do you understand?"Roshi often repeated the phrase, "seeing things a...

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."– Frank Sinatra

The Journey Goes DownIn the process of discovering bodhichitta, the journey goes down, not up. It's as if the mountain pointed toward the center of the earth instead of reaching into the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward the turbulence and doubt. We jump into it. We slide into it. We tiptoe into it. We move...