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Summer Sesshin Part 4 of 4: Everlasting Practice

Episode Description: In this final talk of the 2015 summer sesshin Henry clarifies what has been explored during the week. He recites the opening couplets of the Shinjinmei, Verses of the

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Awareness Bound and Unbound, by David Loy, Part 3 of 3

What does it really mean for awareness to be here-and-now, de-conditioned from attention traps both individual and collective? Click to read Part 1 and Part 2 of Awareness Bound and

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Awareness Bound and Unbound, by David Loy, Part 2 of 3

…attention has become the basic commodity to be exploited. Click to read Part 1 of Awareness Bound and Unbound. The Commodification of Attention For most of us in the developed

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A Universe Struggling to Become Aware? by David Loy

Is my desire to awaken… the urge of the cosmos to become aware of itself, in and as me? “God” is one way of trying to say something very important,

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Spiritual Discourses from the Mountains and Water

“Generally speaking, we say that mountains belong to some country or region, but it is to those who love mountains that they really belong. Invariably, when a mountain loves

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A Meditation on Impermanence, by Guy Zimmerman

It’s not uncommon for me to complete the sequence of meditations and discover I have left one out – it is always the death meditation. While I know I will

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Thoughts about Practice: Finding the Dharma

If you want to hear the Dharma, just listen: it is always being spoken with perfect precision… It is all the sounds we can hear. If you want to see

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Mountains and Waters

Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. Because mountains and waters have been active since before

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Thoughts about Practice: Non-abiding

…thoughts are not unimportant, but they’re not so important; feelings are not unimportant, but they’re not so important. -Dogen Our minds ordinarily are always “going somewhere”, aiming for something then

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Message From Henry: A Little Reflection on Zen History, 2

…kensho is not the goal of Zen practice. It’s not a prize to be plucked from the tree of Zen. Rather, it is the source, the beginning, the origin of

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How does an Awakened Person Perceive the World, Part 4 of 4

I came to realize clearly that mind is nothing other than rivers and mountains and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. -Dogen Click to

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Progress / Regress

…this Way is a path: every moment is a path. One of the marvels of the Zen way is that you can actually never regress on the path. You can’t

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Think Not-thinking

Episode Description: Henry shares some thoughts on Yakusan’s famous dialogue on meditation. A monk asks, “What do you think about when you meditate?” Yakusan answers, “Think not-thinking.” Henry relates this to

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Message from Henry: Five Skandhas

When like and dislike do not arise, the Way stands clear. – from the Shinjinmei These are the five “skandhas” or “aggregates”: matter or form (rupa), sensation or feeling (vedana),

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