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?
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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.
Absolute Compassion (Training in Compassion - 2/)
/Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma Seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion.
How does caring for ourselves help us care for others? How do we not hide behind the dream-like quality of the absolute?
Resolve to Begin (Training in Compassion - 1/)
/Shinmon Michael Newton gives the first talk in our new Dharma Seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion, where we will explore the practice of Lojong.
The first slogan, “Train in the preliminaries,” strengthens our resolve to practice and invites us to reflect deeply, whether we are an experienced practitioner or just beginning.
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?
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.
Everyday Zen (7/9): Choices
/Nin-en Susan Elbe picks up the thread of Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen by offering a talk on Chapter 8.
How do the paramitas help us make difficult choices?
Everyday Zen (6/9): Suffering
/Dai-i Flo Rublee offers the last instalment in our dharma seminar - Chapter 5 from Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen - with the suggestion that we don't have to be engaged in endless struggle with forces external to ourselves.
"No old age and death. No end to old age and death. No suffering. No end to suffering." (the Heart Sutra)
