Dharmatalk: Firsthand Experience
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“… 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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Dharmatalk: No Other
“… Just come and sit, and let the flower of your heart open …” Description: This talk explores the second two sentences of the Heart Sutra: “Form is no other
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Dharmatalk: The Loving Fount of All
“… dwelling in perfect wisdom, we too may begin to discover the eternally selflessly giving love that nourishes all of creation …” “… True giving must mean relinquishing control …” Description: The
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Samadhi, Henry Shukman
The Sanbo Zen lineage has traditionally focused on kensho (sudden awakening) experiences which offer a complete, though often brief, shift in how we see reality. To attain this shift, practitioners
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Dharmatalk: The Process of Letting Go of Everything
“… You can only see it when you are it …” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Human beings tend to get constantly captivated by their “default mode network,” which can
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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: Cultivating Meditative Awareness
“… In our right effort we are developing the capacity to work on the unwholesome …” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Right effort in practice, the sixth fold in the
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The New Bodhisattva Path, Talk by David Loy
David Loy finds hope for new possibilities within our many global challenges…. We may ask, how do we find hope and what can we possibly do? According to a Zen
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Dharmatalk: Embarking on the Noble Eightfold Path
“Right View is not so far away“ Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Setting out on the Noble Eightfold Path, we begin with Right View. By developing an awareness of
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Dharmatalk: Subitist and Gradualist Awakening
“This precious me. My me. This has been an invention” Description: Ongoing series on basic Buddhism. Continuing the discussion about the cessation of suffering, we examine two approaches toward awakening,
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