Open Buddha

The moniker, “Open Source Buddhism,” has been used on this site for quite a while. What this actually means is easily open to question and it seems worthy of a longer discussion.
“Open Source” is something that is generally applied to software. As Wikipedia states, “A main principle and practice of open source software development is [...]

The following is part of a teaching from Zen Master Seung Sahn given at the Cambridge Zen Center on Saturday, July 16, 1977. Seung Sahn is the teacher who brought my lineage to the West and there is great value in what he had to say to his students. I thought it was a good [...]