Dharmatalk: Reflection on Dogen’s Fukanzazengi
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Description: Newly appointed assistant Sanbo Zen teacher Will Brennan offers reflections on Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, (Recommending Zazen for all People) about how to practice, why practice, a beginner’s primer and much more.
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Four Motivations for Taking up the Path of Zen
Traveling and traveling, I arrived at the mountain of treasures, Only to realize it was none other than My own temporary dwelling. ~ Ryokan Once, two monks were traveling together
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It Is You (Video)
Does it matter? Koans speak to this, addressing us in a language beyond words… a language that is utterly selfless and that points directly to who we really are. Valerie
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Three Fruits
Every single thing holds all things. – Kongshi Daoren Zen is an ingathering into the silence that is always waiting for us, a silence that excludes nothing. As we give
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Introduction to Koans, Henry Shukman (Video)
Henry continues his two part introduction to Koans. Koans point to that which underlies everything without exception, in a most unimaginable way. They help us to experience life, objects, all
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Not Knowing is Most Intimate
Second talk from the Pilgrimage of Retreat Retreat with Valerie Forstman In this second and final talk from the Pilgrimage of Peace retreat, Roshi Valerie Forstman revisits a question from
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Dharmatalk: Introduction to Meditation Retreat: Abundant Advantage (Part 2 of 2)
“May each and everybody whether staying still or standing up have ten thousand blessings….Today I have advantage after advantage, now, please practice.” ~ Dogen Description: Valerie explores the dharma hall discourse
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Surpassing the Master: Rupert Spira and Henry Shukman
Steve James of the Guru Viking Podcast hosts a dialogue with Rupert and Henry. Rupert Spira is a teacher of the direct path method of Advaita and an internationally acclaimed
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Being Pilgrimage, Being Peace
Talk One from the Pilgrimage of Peace Retreat with Valerie Forstman This first talk from the Pilgrimage of Peace retreat begins with an intention: May each person’s powerful presence have peaceful
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Thinking – Nonthinking
When you practice just sitting and continuously give up all thoughts and views, the way becomes more and more intimate. ~ Eihei Dogen One of the most common questions around
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Dharmatalk: Introduction to Meditation Retreat: Invitation to Trust (Part 1 of 2)
“When you sit, the whole world is sitting… We really don’t have to do anything, just show up”. Description: The invitation of Zen practice is to sit with the world,
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