Dharma Talk: “Mind the Gap: Self, Other, and the Nature of Reality” with Sean Tetsudo Murphy
Thursday, August 20th | 5:30–7:00 PM
Meditation begins at 5:30 pm MT, followed by the Dharma Talk (teisho) at 6:00 pm MT.
You are invited to join us for an evening with Sean Tetsudo Murphy at Mountain Cloud Zen Center’s zendo, where he will be leading the Dharma Talk titled, “Mind the Gap: Self, Other, and the Nature of Reality.”
This hybrid event is free and registration is not required. Please arrive five to ten minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
To participate online, please click on the zoom link below.
sit.mountaincloud.org
Passcode: mountain22
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If you miss a dharma talk, you can find it on our YouTube channel within one to two weeks.
Kindly consider contributing dana (a traditional Buddhist offering) to express financial gratitude to our teacher. Dana to Sean can be made through Paypal: seanmurphy@murphyzen.com or Venmo: SeanWMurphy
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Sean Tetsudo Murphy, Sensei, is a Zen teacher in the American White Plum lineage, with many decades of practice and teaching experience. He’s also an award-winning author and recent National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing. The author of the nonfiction “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories” as well as three novels with Bantam Dell books, he is founder and director of The Sage Institute of Taos, NM, which hosts an innovative online/via Zoom Meditation and Mindfulness Leader Training Program. He also teaches creative writing, meditation, and literature for the University of New Mexico-Taos and many other venues. www.sageinstitute.org www.murphyzen.com
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Teisho literally means “presentation of the shout.” It is not a lecture or a didactic discourse but a direct sharing of the dharma springing from the teacher’s experience. A teisho or dharma talk is not intended to engage the discursive mind. Rather, the invitation is to let the language wash over the listener and, if something strikes, to let that resound.
At Mountain Cloud, teisho often take up a koan, a record of an exchange between Chan/Zen masters or masters and disciples that conveys the world they are sharing and carries the seeds of awakening. Teisho invite us to keep company with the ancestors whose practice-awakening (a term from Dogen) is freshly conveyed each time we turn to this living tradition.
