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If you feel curious about Buddhism and go looking for information about the different schools, with their core beliefs and practices, you will quickly encounter lots and lots of numbered lists. No one loves a list like a Buddhist teacher. Just on a first pass (never mind a closer look), you’ll encounter: Most of these…

Unless something comes along that makes it impractical, I sit in quiet meditation every morning (around 10am, if you were thinking of phoning). I practise (now that’s a word that needs unbundling – I’ll come back to it sometime) what a Sōtō Zen Buddhist would recognise as shikantaza (just sitting), a distinctive form of zazen…