Following the Precepts
/Shinmon Michael Newton outlines how taking the bodhisattva vows reduces suffering and can help cultivate dignified presence.
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Everyday Zen (9/9): Service
/Shinmon Michael Newton gives the last talk in our Dharma Seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's Everyday Zen - Love and Work, offering further insight into a formidable zen teacher.
What would it be like to live a life of no exchange?
Religion's Relevance to Contemporary Society
/Mysoshin Kate McCandless emphasizes that religions can not only provide solace and inspiration, but also need to reckon with harms done in the name of "god".
Everyday Zen (8/9): Boundaries
/Using Joko Beck's Everyday Zen as a springboard, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks us to consider what kind of boundaries we are attached to, and which of the worldly winds blows us off our path.
Dogen Intensive: Moon (3/3)
/To end our month long Genzo-e, Shinmon Michael Newton underlines that the moon is a symbol for awakening to non-dual reality and to impermanence.
Dogen Intensive: Moon (2/3 - Closing Retreat)
/In this talk, Shinmon Michael Newton encourages us to not reject the incomplete and to not hang on to what is complete, but rather just to practice; to actualize the complete moon that is not yet full.
Dogen Intensive: Moon (1/3 - Closing Retreat)
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers insights into the moon as symbol for the formless dharma body. What preconceived notions do you have about zen practice and your life? Can you let go of that mode of thinking?
Dogen Intensive: Dreams (4/4)
/In the last dharma talk on Dogen's Dream within a Dream, Myoshin Kate McCandless shares a dialogue between Ziyong, a 17th century Chinese nun at the end of her life, and her disciple Jingxuan. How do we express the dream within the dream in times of great loss?
