Message from Henry: Enter Practice
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Are Human’s Special? Part 1 by David Loy
…according to traditional Buddhist teachings, only humans can awaken and become Buddhas. That is why it is so important not to waste our precious human birth. David Loy will be
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Spring Sesshin Photo
March 2018 – Spring Sesshin Participants
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Teisho: A Map of Zen Training (Part 3) & Case 65, Book of Equanimity: Shuzan’s “Bride”
“… only one well-being that unites all things in boundless love …“ To come to be what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.
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Mountain Cloud Goes Solar
Solar Electric Panels are installed on the roof of our main building! We are online, interconnected with the power grid, generating our own electricity and supplying excess to the grid.
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Teisho: A Map of Zen Training & The Jhanas (Part 2)
“… The work of concentration, deepening and clarifying makes us more available to the moment …“ Description: This teisho is the second talk from the Fall 2017 sesshin. Henry continues to outline
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Teisho: A Map of Zen Training & The Jhanas
“… Whatever your practice is, let it absorb you …“ Description: This teisho is the first talk from the Fall 2017 sesshin. In the first half of the talk, Henry outlines a
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Walking Meditations, by Gail Snyder
The Earth is sacred and we touch her with each step. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh As a new arrival to this world, just delivered from our mother’s body, each one
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Teisho: Practice & The Jhanas
“… where the entire body is pervaded by pure awareness …“ Description: The focus of this talk is basic awareness practice and the jhana states, which are meditative states marked by deep
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Guest Message: The Bodhisattva’s Joy of Offering by Sandy Chubb
…in the act of giving, one who gives and one who receives form a connection with each other… ~ Dogen This week, a message from Sandy Chubb, Zen Teacher at
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Teisho: What, Why, & How
“… We sit when we are sitting, eat when we are eating, walk when we are walking. We taste the wonder of being alive …“ Description: Henry begins with further discussion of
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