The Great Matter of Birth and Death
/Nin’en Susan Elbe offers an exploration of koans and how they help us grapple with the mysteries of birth and death.
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Make Practice Your Whole Life (Training in Compassion - 5/)
/Jikai Vicki Turay continues our Dharma seminar asking: what strengths do you have when it comes to making practice your whole life? What challenges? How consciously and caringly can you breathe?
In the Spirit of Mothers' Day
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers stories celebrating the strong influence of mothers within the Buddhist tradition. How do you cultivate a mothering spirit?
Transform Bad Circumstances into the Path (Training in Compassion - 4/)
/Joko Claire Talbot continues the Wednesday evening Dharma seminar on Norman Fischer's Training in Compassion.
In what ways do you appreciate your lunacy and pray for help?
The Way is Easy - Just Avoid Preferences
/Zoketsu Norman Fischer 's second dharma talk from the MRZC weekend retreat is again full of wonderful teachings and stories from Dongshan. What is this life now, beyond theologies and categories?!
Inanimate Objects Speak the Dharma
/Rich with stories and teachings from Dongshan's life, Zoketsu Norman Fischer gives the first of two talks at the annual MRZC weekend retreat.
Relative Compassion (Training in Compassion - 3/)
/Our dharma seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion continues. Dai-i Flo Rublee offers that relative compassion helps ground the broad view of life’s empty nature in heart-connection and engagement.
Different Ways of Expressing What it is to be Human
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Myoshin Kate McCandless gives a dharma talk on one of humanity's great koans: gender. Can we release our fixed views on identity?
