Other Teachings – Page 26 – Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Mountains and Oceans

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right

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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 2 of 3

How may I live my life realizing that the wounded world is my own true self, I am that, crying out in pain? Click to read Listening to the Voices

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The Ecological Crisis: Can Buddhism Help? Reflection by David Loy

“We are here to overcome the illusion of our separation.” — Thich Nhat Hanh “I came to realize Weed seed puff clearly that mind is nothing other than mountains

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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 1 of 3

“I came to realize clearly that the mind is not other than mountains, rivers, the great wide earth, sun, moon, stars”. -Dogen This is a passage from thirteenth century Zen

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Tree of Wisdom

Oak and maple, palm and pine—trees are our closest neighbors and most patient teachers… on the common roots of people and trees. There is a cabin in the remote mountains

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The Dharma of Alienation: Part 2 of 2

In response to the delusion of separation and alienation, Buddhist teachings emphasize interconnectedness. Overcoming Alienation All the above (click to read Dharma of Alienation Part 1) is an effort to

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The Dharma of Alienation: Part 1 of 2

New media technologies sometimes encourage a kind of “hyper-individualism” because we spend less and less time meeting and interacting with other people – often not even with members of our

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Enter…the Bodhisattva, Part 2 of 2

Is there something specific within the Buddhist tradition that can bring these two types of transformation together in a new model of activism connecting inner and outer practice? Enter…the bodhisattva.

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Enter…the Bodhisattva, Part 1 of 2

…when we do not acknowledge the importance of individual transformation, social transformation is repeatedly subverted by powerful elites taking selfish advantage of their position. David Loy on why the bodhisattva

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Toward a New Buddhist Story: Part 3 of 3

We who have language assume we are superior to animals. In fact, our linguistic representations of the world are superior to the world itself, since they can control it. Ironically,

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Toward a New Buddhist Story: Part 2 of 3

What is called for now is not people seeking to transcend this world but people who take responsibility for its well-being. Click to Read A New Buddhist Story: Part 1

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Toward A New Buddhist Story: Part 1 of 3

Is a new Buddhist story beginning to develop out of the interaction between Buddhism and the modern world? Both need such a new story. It’s not only a matter of

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The Unfamiliar Familiar: Part 5 of 6

…we surely know that to be alive among things is a gift; yet it’s a gift we so often fail to unwrap. Click here to read the Unfamiliar Familiar Part

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Karma: Fate or Freedom

Yet karma is not something the self has; rather, it is what the sense of self is, because one’s sense of self is transformed by one’s conscious choices. Many Buddhist

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