Videos – Page 22 – Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Talk 4 from the Original Love 4 Retreat, Vimalakirti’s Silence (Video)

This is about the suffering of the whole world and the bodhisattva work for the welfare of all beings. Don’t dismiss your wounds, offer them, let them be portals, such

Talk 3 from the Original Love 4 Retreat, Mu Koan (Video)

This isn’t something we get, it’s something that happens to us and continues happening. Henry explores the koan Mu in this third talk from the Original Love 4 Retreat. Henry

Talk 2 from the Original Love 4 Retreat, Just Compassion (Video)

Our practice begins with suffering and ends with suffering. Valerie explores non dual experience in Case 46 in the Gateless Gate, Stepping Forward from the Top of the 100 Foot

Talk 1 from Original Love 4 Retreat, The Fairytale is True (Video)

Awakening … as the primary fairytale, is true. Henry describes the various ways we have been looking at love in the Original Love retreats: loving awareness, transcendent support, deepening states

Finding Love: Two Talks by Sanbo Zen Teacher Ruben Habito

Infinite, conditional, boundless love… Listen to Ruben Habito answer the question, What is Zen? He explores how practicing Zen involves finding love everywhere, in all things. The desire to

The Context of Practice, Henry Shukman (Video)

Henry reminds us that Zen training is our own work, effort, commitment and investment of time and energy. Yet the context of practice pulls us outside of ourselves, out of

Returning to Square One: Talk 4 from the Original Love 3 Retreat, Henry Shukman

Henry opens the final talk of the Original Love 3 Virtual retreat with: “The more we go into practice the more we are just beginning. We are always in square

The Unadjusted Step, Dharma Talk by Valerie Forstman

Valerie offers this post-election talk and acknowledges our deeply divided nation. She introduces the taoist concept of the unadjusted step – stay where you are and don’t move, as a

What is Mu? Talk 2 from the Original Love 3 Retreat, Valerie Forstman

Valerie gives the second talk for the Original Love 3 retreat. She unpacks the primary Zen koan Mu. What is Mu? asks Valerie. She quotes Sanbo Zen Teacher Ruben Habito:

Meeting Mu, Dharma Talk by Henry Shukman

Developing mindfulness is like creating a warm loving home inside yourself. In Henry’s final talk prior to the election he acknowledges that the eyes of people all over the globe

Zen’s Middle Way, Talk 1 from October’s Original Love Retreat

How could we ever be anywhere but at square one? …. it’s always here – just like this – and we are always equipped to find it. Henry opens this

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

Solitary and Poor, Dharma Talk by Valerie Forstman

Enjoy this dharma talk from our October 10-11 Introduction to Mediation Retreat. Valerie Forstman explains what a teisho is, explores some of the great benefits of sitting meditation and introduces

Fierce Compassion, Dharma Talk by Valerie Forstman

Valerie’s dharma talk probes Case 23 from the Blue Cliff Record, Hofuku and Chokei on an Outing. Hofuku says “This very moment is awakening. Exactly,” responds Chokei, “but it’s regrettable.”

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