The Great Matter of Birth and Death
/Nin’en Susan Elbe offers an exploration of koans and how they help us grapple with the mysteries of birth and death.
Dharma Podcast and Teachings
The Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast
features talks by our guiding teachers, Myoshin Kate
McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, as well as a
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In the Spirit of Mothers' Day
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers stories celebrating the strong influence of mothers within the Buddhist tradition. How do you cultivate a mothering spirit?
Following the Precepts
/Shinmon Michael Newton outlines how taking the bodhisattva vows reduces suffering and can help cultivate dignified presence.
Heart of Compassion : The Teachings of Tonglen
/Tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, means taking in and sending. We take in suffering and send out light, ease and healing.
Myoshin Kate McCandless, has learned this powerful practice from two American teachers of Tibetan Buddhism and shares a step-step sequence to develop the capacity for deep compassion for oneself and others.
The following is the approximate timing. Please feel free to pause the recording if you need more time between each section.
Welcome
(2:10) Avalokiteshvara meditation
(19:00) Ultimate/relative bodhicitta
(58:00) Four immeasurables meditation
(1.14:30) Tonglen
(1.29:00) Tonglen for world
(1.43:00) everyday Tonglen
Notes can be found HERE
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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.
