Invitation to Simply Trust: Talk 1 from January’s Introductory Retreat, Valerie Forstman
Basic Buddhism
When you sit, the whole world is sitting… We really don’t have to do anything, just show up. The invitation of Zen practice is to sit with the world, just
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Dharmatalk: The Zone of Phenomena
“… The principle of zen is: body and mind fall away …” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Having reached the fourth aspect of mindfulness, which is the seventh fold of
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Dharmatalk: Dharmas within Dharmas
“… We observe the unfolding of our awareness like a butterfly … opening up its wings …” “… Let the breath show itself to your awareness …” Description: Ongoing series on basic
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Dharmatalk: Gathering in to a Single Point
“There isn’t any phenomenon at all that isn’t teaching or preaching the Dharma“ Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Buddha taught that in order to cultivate Right Orientation, which is
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Dharmatalk: Letting Go of Clinging
“Loss brings us to our senses. It actually gives us our life” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. In continuing the series of talks about the Four Noble Truths, we
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Dharmatalk: Developing Compassion with Equanimity
“Suffering can be the door, or the path, to practice and training” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Continuing the discussion of the first of the Four Noble Truths: How
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Dharmatalk: Venus Twinkling
“I and all beings have simultaneously attained the Way” ~ Buddha Description: This is the first in a series of talks on basic Buddhism, beginning with an exploration of the
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Can Buddhism Meet the Climate Crisis? Part 1 of 2, by David Loy
The challenge that confronts us is spiritual because it goes to the very heart of how we understand the world, including our place and role in this world. Is the
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Dharmatalk: Case 76, Book of Equanimity: Shuzan’s Three Verses
“… Your you-ness is what is utterly beloved, from beginningless beginning …” Description: This talk begins with a discussion of the five hindrances: desire; aversion; sloth and torpor; restlessness and
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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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Three Fruits of Zen
…if we really lived out the reality glimpsed in a moment of realization, and in every instant of our lives were free of all last shreds of clinging or grasping…then
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Three Treasures of Zen
Three elements have long been considered integral and indispensable to Zen training – Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Often referred to as the three treasures, they form the foundation of our
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