Author: The Tattooed Buddha

Meeting Cuong Lu: Monk, Teacher, Former Prison Chaplain and Author

Born in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, Cuong Lu emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980 where he later studied at Plum Village under and later became ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. 

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Taking the Backward Step

This is what Zen describes as the pathless path. We are already the path and there is no path to follow.

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Silicon Fingers Pointing at the Moon

But there is one thing where it comes into its own, where it really is a stone-cold killer: that thing is chatting about Buddhism.

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When the Door Opened Somewhere Else

For years, I thought doors were simple things. They opened or they did not. You were home or you were not. A number was a number. A floor was a floor.

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Tara Empowerment in the MDC {Part 2}

The women became a blur of warm, rich light. This was the phase transition. It was no longer a script I was delivering to an audience. It was like a dream that arises all at once, where I was all of it: the audience, the script, the woman in the special borrowed uniform at the table earnestly reading.

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