Rohatsu 4: Prajnaparamitra, The Heart Sutra, Henry Shukman (Video)
Heart Sutra
What is this practice? Why do it? Essentially, it’s all about slowing down and things falling away. Our very existence, our being gets simpler. Henry looks at the title and
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Dharmatalk: Encounter of the Heart Retreat: Stop & See Q&A (Part 2 of 6)
To be able to hear the dharma is truly rare. To do so we must: Stop and see, sit still and let go. Description: This is the Question & Answer
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Dharmatalk: Encounter of the Heart Retreat: Stop & See (Part 1 of 6)
Empty, new and utterly fleeting, arriving now but already done. Description: In this first Teisho from the Encounter of the Heart Retreat, January 2021, Valerie Forstman reminds us that this
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Dharmatalk: Practice-Realization
“… taste the indivisible dynamism of the heart of compassion …” “… The slightest movement is a seismic gesture; the whole earth shaken to the farthest regions …” Description: In this
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Dharmatalk: Loving Awakening
“… clinging to identification with the self … the sense organs …” “… Words cannot touch it. No words cannot touch it …” Description: In this talk given during the 2020
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Dharmatalk: Awakening to Love and Compassion
“… the very first line of the {Heart} sutra links Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of love, mercy, and compassion, with awakening and liberation …” “… What does it take to just grow
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Dharmatalk: The Other Power
“… Usually with training, we can become more and more creators of wellbeing …” Description: This short talk, given on the final day of the 2019 Winter Sesshin, offers words of
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Dharmatalk: Excess of Happiness
“… as an affirmation of the absolute unity of all …” “… How can there be suffering if there is no one who suffers? …” Description: In this further exploration of the
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Dharmatalk: A Heart Retreat
“… sutra is conveying the great love and fundamental energy that pervades throughout the universe …” “… Hating our suffering and fighting against it will inevitably make it worse …” Description: This
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Dharmatalk: A Goad for Training
“… This being here like this is a marvellous arising of a mirage …” Description: This talk, the second one given during the 2019 Rohatsu Sesshin, further discusses the group of
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Dharmatalk: Firsthand Experience
“… Practice is always, only about this moment …” Description: The first talk given during the Winter Rohatsu sesshin of 2019 continues an ongoing exploration of the Heart Sutra by looking,
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Dharmatalk: Negation as Strategy
“… The Heart Sutra puts forth the radical assertion that knowing is delusion, and not knowing is most intimate …” “… This is not a morning talk on Zen …” Description:
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Dharmatalk: The Wisdom before Knowing
“… We, our mind, the world we experience with our mind; are all the same …” Description: In this first talk given during the Fall 2019 sesshin, we continue our former
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Dharmatalk: The Land of Neither, Nor
“… we need only learn how to let go of our body, mind, feelings, senses and consciousness as naturally as leaves letting go their stems and falling to the ground
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