Tesshin’s thoughts, here and now.

The mind can spend a lifetime building defenses and call the construction safety. Odawara is the image I keep returning to.

An independent philosophical exploration of Bankei’s thought through study, friendship, and everyday life.

Bankei did not prohibit zazen. His sharper question was whether any method had been mistaken for the source of Buddha-mind.

A reaction may arrive before permission. Bondage grows when the mind adopts it, repeats it, and calls it a self.