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Dharmatalk: Case 84, Book of Equanimity:Gutei’s One Finger
“… Whatever you experience, if you can see it clearly, it shows itself to be hollow, empty, insubstantial …” Description: In Case 84, Master Gutei responds to whatever he
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Dharmatalk: Infinite Heart Opening (Practice Basics)
“… The Way is never apart from you right where you are …” Description: There are a myriad of ways to parse the human experience and find clarity. This talk is
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Dharmatalk: Case 83, Book of Equanimity: Dôgo’s Nursing the Ill
“… The whole universe is offering unconditional love …” Description: The focus of this talk is Case 83, which features Master Isan and Master Dôgo. These masters are completely free; they
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Dharmatalk: Case 82, Book of Equanimity: “Sound” and “Color”
“… It’s about entering the moment in a more immediate, intimate and clearer way …” Description: In the koan, “Sound” and “Color,” Master Unmon is essentially talking about the main emphasis
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Dharmatalk: Case 19, The Gateless Gate: Ordinary Mind is the Way
“… Ordinary experience is extraordinarily miraculous. It is “as vast and boundless as the great empty sky …” Description: This talk focuses on a teaching story from very early in Master
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Can Buddhism Meet the Climate Crisis? Part 2 of 2, by David Loy
“…clinging to emptiness” can function in the same way as cosmological dualism, both of them devaluing this world and its problems If you missed part one of this article by
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Dharmatalk: Case 28, Book of Equanimity: Gokoku’s “Three Disgraces”
“… At the deepest level, nothing is separate from the Dharma …” Description: This talk focuses on Henry’s trip to Germany, beginning in Nuremberg, then on to Benediktushof, a former
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