How to Cook Your Life (1/
/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?
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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?
Mysohin Kate McCandless introduces Zen master Musō Soseki and “Dialogues in a Dream" - a collection of ninety-three dialogues between the master and the shogun Ashikaga Tadayoshi.
Daikan picks up the exploration of Norman Fischer’s book Training in Compassion. He notes that over time, we might notice that meditating changes our sense of life, and that we may be developing gentleness and patience towards self and others.
Shinmon Michael Newton brings the Wednesday evening Dharma seminar on Norman Fischer's Training in Compassion to a close.
MRZC's Soto Zen practice emphasizes being fully awake to our own moment-to-moment experience, from our meditation cushion to every aspect of our everyday life. Join us!
Mountain Rain Zen Community's Wall street Zendo and Bright Stream Temple (Koryuji) are situated on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Let's let our time in nature not be just another way of consumption, but a way of learning from the web of interconnection--
Mountain Rain Zen Community
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