Teachings
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Going Back To The Source: The Roots of Being Human {VIDEO Clip}
December 29, 20144 min read
This is the 10th short video clip (3:43) from the conversation between Stephen Batchelor and Henry Shukman, on June 4, 2014, at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico on “Going Back to the Source.” The entire talk's video (1:03:15) can also be viewed on our YouTube channel. Their dialogue covers : Eastern and Western thought, the great doubt, dismantling of knowing, ancient greeks and buddhism, zen and classical philosophy, seeing with clarity, humanist enlightenment in the west, roots of...
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Going Back To The Source: Humanist Enlightenment in The West {VIDEO Clip}
December 27, 20147 min read
This is the 9th short video clip (8:44) from the conversation between Stephen Batchelor and Henry Shukman, on June 4, 2014, at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico on “Going Back to the Source.” The entire talk's video (1:03:15) can also be viewed on our YouTube channel. Their dialogue covers : Eastern and Western thought, the great doubt, dismantling of knowing, ancient greeks and buddhism, zen and classical philosophy, seeing with clarity, humanist enlightenment in the west, roots of...
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Job
December 21, 20142 min read
Is it really possible to resolve our human life in spite of all the losses we face? In a sense, the Bible story of Job is a story of awakening. After repeated assaults on all the outward conditions of Job’s life—his family, his friends, his flocks—after losing everything he valued, he finally discovers there is one thing he cannot lose: God. It represents a movement from reliance on outward things to reliance on something inward—or, as Zen...
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Going Back To The Source: Ancient Greeks and Buddhism {VIDEO Clip}
December 17, 20143 min read
Stephen Batchelor returns to Mountain Cloud on Thursday April 2, 2-4pm for a conversation on early Buddhism, the Zen tradition and ancient Greek Philosophy with Mountain Cloud guiding teacher Henry Shukman--continuing the exploration of contact and congruence between the ancient East and West. Last year, Stephen and Henry sat down for an engaging conversation, on June 4th, at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.on "Going Back to the Source." ... below is an earlier post...
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