How to Cook Your Life (4/
/Nin-en Susan Elbe reads correspondence between herself, Uchiyama Roshi, and Dogen Zenji as part of the dharma seminar on Instructions to the Cook.
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Nin-en Susan Elbe reads correspondence between herself, Uchiyama Roshi, and Dogen Zenji as part of the dharma seminar on Instructions to the Cook.
Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook, offering insights into Great Mind and Parental Mind.
What would it be like to fully the taste the experiences of each day? What kind of medicine bowl can be made with what’s available?
Jikai Vicki Turay gives a talk on chapters 3 and 4 of Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
Cooking is not a distraction from the more serious pursuit of meditation but rather an entry way to a deeper understanding of how our minds are intimately connected to all phenomena and to one’s buddha nature.
Dai- Flo Rublee offers the first talk in a new seminar Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
What are the activities of true adults in the world today?
Myoshin Kate McCandless gives the last talk in the dharma seminar on Musō Soseki’s writing.
“I am seeking nothing special. Even for my guests I have nothing to offer except these white stones and this clear spring water.”
“Through desire we invite birth, through aversion we receive death.”
Shinmon Michael Newton continues the Wednesday evening seminar on Muso Soseki’s Dialogues in a Dream.
“Knowing is arrogance, not knowing is stupidity.”
For the third talk in our dharma seminar on Musō Soseki's writing, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: What is your relationship to reading Zen texts and commentaries?
Shinmon Michael Newton offers an exploration of Muso Soseki’s thoughts on compassion. Is it sentimental? Is it dharma based? Is it universal or is it dualistic?
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