A Universe Struggling to Become Aware? by David Loy
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Is my desire to awaken… the urge of the cosmos to become aware of itself, in and as me? “God” is one way of trying to say something very important,
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Case 15 Book of Equanimity, Kyozan Thrusts his Hoe into the Ground
Episode Description: This koan explores the key question: Where have you come from? Henry gives background anecdotes on the two characters in this koan, Isan and Kyozan, then startlingly describes
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Spiritual Discourses from the Mountains and Water
“Generally speaking, we say that mountains belong to some country or region, but it is to those who love mountains that they really belong. Invariably, when a mountain loves
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A Meditation on Impermanence, by Guy Zimmerman
It’s not uncommon for me to complete the sequence of meditations and discover I have left one out – it is always the death meditation. While I know I will
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Thoughts about Practice: Finding the Dharma
If you want to hear the Dharma, just listen: it is always being spoken with perfect precision… It is all the sounds we can hear. If you want to see
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Updates from Japan and Why we practice Zen
Episode Description: Henry talks about his trip to Japan in May and its exciting and relevant connection to Mountain Cloud’s history and future. Henry went to Japan with a film
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Along the Stream, Doing Nothing, by Guy Zimmerman
Insight arrives through an act of not-doing rather than through an effort of will, in other words, as if the insight were already there, beneath the hyper-active operations of the
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Mountains and Waters
Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. Because mountains and waters have been active since before
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Thoughts about Practice: Non-abiding
…thoughts are not unimportant, but they’re not so important; feelings are not unimportant, but they’re not so important. -Dogen Our minds ordinarily are always “going somewhere”, aiming for something then
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Case 12, Book of Equanimity. Jizo plants the rice field
Episode Description: Henry opens this teisho with a lovely look at the gift of the five precepts. He then provides an evocative exploration of the koan, “Jizo Plants the Rice Field”.
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How does an Awakened Person Perceive the World, Part 4 of 4
I came to realize clearly that mind is nothing other than rivers and mountains and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. -Dogen Click to
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