Everyday Zen (2/9): What is Practice?
/Myosen River Shannon continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen and explores two questions Beck poses: "What is practice?" and "What is not practice?"
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Zen, Karate, and Kiai - Zed Talk with Michael Hare
/Michael Hare describes how his different communities of practice weave together like the threads of a martial arts belt.
ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talks are short talks by sangha members about how they take their practice into the world, through work, art, activism, service, family life, etc. and how their practice supports them in doing so.
Everyday Zen (1/9): Love and Work
/Kakuko Kaye Simard begins a new dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen: Love and Work.
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Tales from the San Deigo Zen Center
Dale S Wright - Humanizing the Image of a Zen Master: Maezumi Roshi
Taking Vows in a Troubled World
/"All sentient beings have their existence and live within my life" -Uchiyama Roshi
Shinmon Michael Newton asks us what our deep vows are, particularly in light of the many complex and difficult issues facing contemporary society. How can we open our hearts and see we are not separate from the ones we want to shun?
Tribute to Hozan Alan Senauke
/Hozan Alan Senauke was an American Sōtō priest, folk musician and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center. Myoshin Kate McCandless reads from Hozan’s memorial and shares some of his writing, and singing!
Joy
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers insight into how, even with all the challenges the holiday season might bring, we can experience joy as one of the noble abodes.
Impermanence and Uncertainty
/Shinmon Michael Newton asks how we might best respond to the uncertainty that is always present in our lives. In what way does living in sangha provide an opportunity to meet the unexpected and experience what enables the heart to be at peace?
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (7)
/Mysohin Kate McCandless gives the last talk of sesshin and concludes the story of Sudhana’s pilgrimage.
We only exist within the vast matrix of Indra’s Net, therefore the work of a Bodhisattva is never solitary. The greatest gift we can bring to the world is to give up our self-clinging.
