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☸️ Defilements (A free, 3-page sutta translation from 2018)

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AN 6.58 Āsava Sutta: Defilements

The Buddha explains that diverse methods should be used for overcoming diverse kinds of problems. One who is skilled in this is “worthy of offerings.”

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The Open Buddhist University Oct 5

📖 即心記 Sokushin-ki (On the mind) (A free, 47-page book translation from 1970)

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即心記 Sokushin-ki (On the mind)

Of course, one who dies while sitting in zazen will never be unhappy. But it is nearly impossible to die in this manner if your body is suffering the pain of sickness. My own master (Gudō Kokushi) said, ‘Your zazen for one sitting is a lifetime of zazen.’ How edifying these words of his are.

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The Open Buddhist University Aug 31, 2025

☸️ The First Discourse on Inspiring All Around (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

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AN 8.71 Paṭhama Saddhā Sutta: The First Discourse on Inspiring All Around

The qualities of a good monk.

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The Open Buddhist University Aug 29, 2025

☸️ A Dhamma Speaker (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2000)

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SN 35.155 Dhamma Kathikapuccha Sutta: A Dhamma Speaker

Bhikkhu, if one teaches the Dhamma for the purpose of revulsion towards the eye, for its fading away and cessation, one can be called a bhikkhu who is a speaker on the Dhamma.

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The Open Buddhist University Aug 28, 2025

☸️ Entailing Suffering (A free, 4-page sutta translation from 2000)

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SN 35.244 Dukkha Dhamma Sutta: Entailing Suffering

if occasionally, due to a lapse of mindfulness, evil unwholesome memories and intentions connected with the fetters arise in him, slow might be the arising of his mindfulness, but then he quickly abandons them, dispels them, puts an end to them

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Klif Jul 22, 2025

Meet Bruce Tree.

Bruce is a chipmunk Monk who channels hyper-alert woodland instincts into dizzying martial arts and acrobatic precision. Fast, jittery, and curious to a fault, he scampers up walls, slips past blades, and punches like a tempest. His fighting style -- rooted in the Way of the Drunken Master -- mimics chaos but is honed by instinct, training, and unnerving, twitchy Focus.

Once a totally ordinary chipmunk on Earth, Bruce's reality fractured one night beneath a familiar oak. He awoke somewhere strange, somewhere magical, able to speak. Disoriented but adaptable, Bruce found himself accidentally rescuing a trio of talking birds who call themselves the Blue Jay Gang. Later, his first true ally, a half-elf druid named Juniper, gave him a name, a scarf, and a purpose. "Adventuring," she said. Bruce ran with it.

Now he wanders the world in wide-eyed wonder, hoarding snacks and shiny objects in his enchanted “cheeks of holding” and learning the rules of a world that still thinks he’s a squirrel with delusions of kung fu. But Bruce is more than that. He knows there's a tree -- his tree -- that he may never see again. And while he doesn’t quite grasp why he’s here, he’ll follow the trail wherever it leads, even if it means stunning dragons with flurries of blows and dodging spells like falling leaves.

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