Way Seeking Mind Talk - Kushi Matthew Ramsay
/A Way-seeking mind talk is a traditional Dharma address where a practitioner shares their personal journey, reflecting on the life experiences and questions that led them to their spiritual practice.
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Way Seeking Mind Talk
/Toshin Patrick Griffin offers a Way-seeking mind talk as an invitation to remember, with gratitude, the events that weave themselves into the thresholds of our life.
A Way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
Way Seeking Mind Talk - With Hotei Lee Lourdeaux
/Heito talks about the importance of having a supportive religious community or sangha.
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A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
Way Seeking Mind Talk - with Shiryu
/Shiryū talks about faith, queerness and liberation across religious traditions. He dreams of a time when people of different backgrounds can complete each other's sentences.
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A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
Way Seeking Mind Talk - With Gensei Susu Schnee
/In what ways can obstacles and challenges become the path to liberation? How do we best train our mind to see the dharma lessons that surround us?
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A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
Practice Period Opening Weekend (4/5)
/In part of her role as shuso, Myosen River gives a Way-Seeking Mind Talk.
“Emptiness is not erasure, it’s a promise and a warning.”
Way-Seeking Mind Talk with Hofu Louise Day
/How does Zen practice lead to the whole body smiling with all it is? Hofu Louise Day shares some of her life experiences - from sitting with Suzuki Roshi when still in highschool, to finding inner peace again after intense loss and grief.
Way Seeking Mind Talk - Hotei Denis Fafard
/Hotei Denis Fafard explores how being a boddhisatva is fundamentally an audacious act of imagination.
