Skip to content
White Lotus Judith Ragir

White Lotus Judith Ragir

Zen Priest and Teacher

  • Blog posts
  • Audio: Dharma Talks
  • Audio: 12 Steps and Buddhism
  • Art: Quilts
  • Art: Calligraphy
  • Essays
  • Events
  • Publications
  • “Untangling Karma”
  • Study Guide — “Untangling Karma”
  • Judith’s Bio

Recent Posts

  • Circle of Woman
  • Ascending and Descending Spirituality
  • Untangling Karma, Uncovering Infinite Wisdom
  • Book out Today!
  • My New Book out on July 5, 2022

CONTACT

judith@judithragir.org

BLOG ARCHIVE

TAGS

  • 8 worldly winds
  • 12 Steps
  • AA
  • Being Time (Uji)
  • Buddhism
  • Buddhist time
  • concentration
  • Dogen
  • emptiness
  • enlightenment
  • form and emptiness
  • generosity
  • Going beyond Buddha
  • guarding the mind
  • Heart Sutra
  • impermanence
  • interbeing
  • jijuyu zanmai
  • Joseph Goldstein's Mindfulness
  • Karma
  • Katagiri Roshi
  • letting go
  • life and death
  • mindfulness
  • mindfulness of the body
  • no-self
  • One Bright Jewel
  • one bright pearl
  • Pema Chodron
  • practice-realization
  • present moment
  • Radical Acceptance
  • Ragir
  • Recovery
  • Right Effort
  • right view
  • samadhi
  • Satipatthana Sutra
  • Shobogenzo
  • Thich Nhat hanh
  • total dynamic functioning
  • Twelve Steps
  • Uchiyama roshi
  • zazen
  • Zen

Tag: Heart Sutra

Gone Beyond Individualized Consciousness #6

What is the difference between gone beyond personal identity and gone beyond individualized consciousness? Personal identity has to do with our psychological responses to life based on our desire system … Continue reading Gone Beyond Individualized Consciousness #6

Beyond Constructions of Time #4

This blog is about the section in the Gate, Gate, mantra which says:  going beyond constructions of time. In the past few years, I have practiced a lot on breaking … Continue reading Beyond Constructions of Time #4

Beyond Personal Identity #3

Continuing my series on gate, gate, paragate mantra.  If you are new to this series, look at the two previous blogs for the overall translation into English of this mantra. … Continue reading Beyond Personal Identity #3

Beyond thought.#2

During rohatsu sesshin, I worked with the gate gate mantra. I got this explanation from Dan Brown who is a Tibetan teacher and i have really enjoyed contemplating it:   … Continue reading Beyond thought.#2

“Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate” #1

I received this translation of the “gate” mantra from Dan Brown who is a Tibetan Teacher: From the end of the Heart Sutra: Gate, gate – beyond thought Paragate – … Continue reading “Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate” #1