The Moon Will Come
Creating a pond, do not wait for the moon. When the pond is built, the moon will come. ~ Eihei Dogen
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Message from Henry: Down the Drain
…ordinary beings have no illumination in their consciousness, but Buddhas have no consciousness in their illumination. ~ Dogen Zen training is like a bathtub where the plug has been pulled.
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Message from Henry: Seismic Dharma
I had a dream recently in which Mountain Cloud was a great truck on which many of us were traveling – almost like a ship – riding through seismically active
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Uji – Being-Time, Dogen
An old Buddha said: For the time being, I stand astride the highest mountain peaks. For the time being, I move on the deepest depths of the ocean floor. For
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Dharmatalk (Guest): John Gaynor: Zen Master Dôgen Kigen (Part 2 of 2)
Description: This is the second part of a talk given by John Gaynor, a Zen Teacher with The Oxford Zen Centre. The why, how and what of meditation is explored,
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Dharmatalk (Guest): John Gaynor: Zen Master Dôgen Kigen (Part 1 of 2)
“… If one person is harmonizing this experience of Dogen’s, then we all are …” Description: John Gaynor is a Zen Teacher with The Oxford Zen Centre. This wonderful
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Dharmatalk: Infinite Heart Opening (Practice Basics)
“… The Way is never apart from you right where you are …” Description: There are a myriad of ways to parse the human experience and find clarity. This talk is
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Message from Henry: Not Knowing
… we never know what blessings can arrive in disguise. Yamada Koun tells the story of Hosshin Zenji, who began grew up in feudal Japan to be a humble, illiterate
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Message from Henry: Deep Dive
Everything goes back to front. Another analogy for practice: there was a 1950s movie about attempts to break the sound barrier. The pilots would climb exceptionally high in their jets
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Flower’s Song, Dogen
Haru kaze ni Waga koto no ha no Chirinuru o Hana no uta to ya Hito no nagamen. **** Will their gaze fall upon The petals of words I utter,
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Rohatsu Sesshin Talk 5 of 6: A Guide to the Museum Called “Me” (Part 2)
“… the gate of ease and joy …” ~ Dogen Description: This teisho is the fifth talk from the 2017 Rohatsu sesshin. (The fourth talk was a “silent teisho.”) Henry recaps the
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Teisho: The Circle of the Way
“… the point of all of this is to be of service, each in our own unique way …” Description: Henry begins by talking about a recent workshop at Mountain Cloud
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Teisho: A Map of Zen Training (Part 4) & Case 64, Book of Equanimity: Shuzan’s “Bride”
“… the most important thing about Zen training. It is the experiential discovery that we are not alone, we are not individual, we are not separate from anything …“ Zazen is the
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Message from Henry: Enter Practice
Perhaps with the disenchantment of old formal religious institutions many of us are left with a reflex toward the sacred … without having … frame of reference … Enter Practice.
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