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Teshin Sweger: Am I too old to realize my true nature?
Teshin Sweger invites us to consider a koan that is not in any of the koan collections. He asks us to consider the koan of our aging. In practice he
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David Loy: A Buddhist Response to the Ecological Crisis
Author, Zen teacher, and Ecodharma activist David Loy begins his talk reminding us that the ecological crisis is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced, and that we are doing
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Katie Arnold: Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World
Ultramarathon runner, Zen practitioner, and author Katie Arnold shares her compelling story of running, Zen, writing, and living life – all through the lens of not-knowing and accepting uncertainty. Katie’s
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Carmen Afable: Breathing Mu
Zen teacher Carmen Afable grounds her teisho in Shoyoroku case #93: Roso Does Not Understand. After reading the case, Carmen reminds us that we are the treasure and pearl of
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Sean Tetsudo Murphy: Demystifying No-Self
Zen teacher, meditation professor, and author Sean Murphy invites us to consider our illusion of separateness, the notion that we have a sense of self as an independent creature within
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Shana Smith: Dharma Rain
Shana begins by noting the concurrent and successive rainstorms both in her area of Florida and at Mountain Cloud in Santa Fe as an introduction to the understanding of oneness
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Natalie Goldberg: Everything is dharma
Writer and Zen teacher Natalie Goldberg reads from her new book “Writing on Empty” and speaks about the value of noticing that something is always awake in us. In writing
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Valerie interviews scholar David Hinton
Valerie interviews scholar and author David Hinton about his new book, “The Blue Cliff Record.” David speaks about several fascinating topics, for example “absence” and “presence.” Absence, David says, is
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