Rohatsu 2023 – Application for In-person Attendance
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Please fill out this application if you wish to attend MCZC’s 2023 Rohatsu in person. This applies to those who plan for indoor lodging onsite, camping on our land, or
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Exploring a Koan by Touch, Carolyn Seburn
Carolyn speaks of an important case that appears in three koan collections, Gutei’s One Finger. It is the story of a Chinese monk and his attendant, who attained sudden enlightenment
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Henry Shukman, Day 1: Past the Land’s End
Talk 1 Fall 2023 Sesshin In the opening talk of the 2023 autumn retreat at Mountain Cloud, Henry likens a sesshin to a journey of practice where growing means finding
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Which Way to Mount Taizan? Valerie Forstman (Video)
Each step, each sound, every word is Mount Taizan, the highest peak – this landscape that we can’t, actually, fall out of. Entirety. Shoyoroku Case 10, “An Old Woman near
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Mount Sumeru Vaporizes Mistakes, Scott Thornton
A monk asked, “Not a single thought arises. Is there any fault?” Unmon said: “Mount Sumeru.” Sumeru by tradition is higher than the stars, cosmically vast (much vaster than getting
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Summer 2023: Sesshin Talk 6, Final Talk
Taste and See: Be what you are For the six days of this sesshin, as is typical of Zen, we’ve been talking about reality and experience, a fact that is
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Summer 2023: Sesshin Talk 5
A World So Full it Can’t Accept One More Thing Valerie takes up Seppo’s “What is This” (Hekiganroku Case 51), together with earlier and later episodes in Seppo and Ganto’s
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Summer 2023: Sesshin Talk 4
A sincere heart – just one – is simply the ten directions crystal clear… the ten directions themselves squeeze the marrow from the bone. A hawk travels many miles by
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2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 3
The Radiant Light Allows the Radiant Light to Respond To examine “radiance,” Valerie takes up Mumonkan case 39, “Unmon and a Mistake in Speech.” She turns it in a kaleidoscope
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