Zen Poetry through the Ages Part 6/6: Contemporary Poets
/Last of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless. What is zen poetry today in North America? How can we make zen poetry of everything?
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Practicing Restraint to Make Room for the World
/Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the practice of restraint using the Kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum (Hebrew: contraction), and asks: can we understand restraint not as something externally imposed and enforced by fear, but internally chosen and based on care and concern?
The Zen Heart of My Creative Practice
/ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talk by Tosho Megan Adam.
Read MoreThe Taste of Silence
/Guiding Teacher Shinmon Michael Newton introduces The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself by Belgian author Bieke Vandekerckhove. He speaks of how we can find freedom in stillness, and in what Dogen refers to as 'the backward step' — the deep and healing flow of silence.
Zen Poetry through the Ages Part 5/6: The Beat Poets
/The Beat Poets: Part 5 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
Finding Our Roots in the Soil
/In this special Earth Day talk, Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the continuous flux between our bodies and the planet with a meditation on the four elements—and questions whether humus and humankind are really so different.
Zen Poetry through the Ages Part 4/6: Chinese and Japanese Women Poets
/Chinese and Japanese Women Poets: Part 4 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
Zen Poetry through the Ages Part 3/6: Haiku
/Haiku: Part 3 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
