Teachings
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Primordial Wisdom: Dharma Talk with Henry Shukman (Video)
August 1, 20211 min read
Henry reads from a piece by Chan master Jing Hui, titled “On Chan” (part 5), in which he discusses fundamental points of Chan/Zen. Jing Hui was born in 1933 and trained under Chan master Xu Yun (who died in 1959 at the age of 120) at Yun Men monastery, where Unmon or Yunmen (864-949) taught. The recent abbot of Joshu's old temple, Ming Hai, studied with him. Chan (Zen) is a path.... "of seeking for profound...
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Falling… In Love: Dharma Talk with Valerie Forstman (Video)
July 30, 20211 min read
Valerie continues to explore the phrase, ‘preaching facing oneness.’ She invites us to follow Tozan on his final pilgrimage to a liberating encounter with what Zen calls his original face - an experience the poet, Ikkyu, describes as "love at first sight." [embed]https://youtu.be/LNu3akx1n7U[/embed] Featured image by Mark Paul Petrick
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Dharmatalk: The Whole Earth Is Medicine
July 28, 20211 min read
"... Koans are invitations to pass through the gate of separation ..." Description: How can we learn through the pandemic crisis to let go of the sense of separateness that is the source of so many of the world’s problems? This talk takes Case 87 from the Blue Cliff Record, where Unmon states that “Medicine and disease correspond to each other,” and asks what the disease might be if the whole world, including current events like the...
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Methods of Practice
July 27, 20211 min read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pS-rMDCGE
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Four Kinds of Practice
July 27, 20211 min read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHv9BVYtP5w
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Three Fruits of Practice
July 27, 20211 min read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgynL59QV5Y
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Present Moment Awareness
July 27, 20211 min read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONCPntZs8M
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Fundamentals of Why We Sit
July 27, 20211 min read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPekdemiHI
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Original Love Launch Evening, July 19 Video
July 22, 20212 min read
Watch the Original Love launch evening - guided meditation, talk, and Q&A. Henry introduces the concepts and practices that come together in Original Love. For me personally, this is quite a big evening... Original Love has been brewing and developing in me for some time, actually. Maybe a year or more… but on the other hand, maybe it’s really more like 40 years. I feel it’s the fruit of a lot of practice, a lot of...
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Dharmatalk: A Koan for the World (3 of 3)
July 20, 20211 min read
"... koan Mu can give us a glimpse of the boundless love that pervades the whole universe ..." "... Whatever we’re not welcoming, that’s our great teacher ..." Description: Continuing on the theme of uncertainty, this talk considers koan practice as a way of helping us find our true home in a world where nothing is ever certain. We look at how Case 45 from the Book of Equanimity and the famous koan Mu can give us a...
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