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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The Way is Easy - Just Avoid Preferences
/Zoketsu Norman Fischer 's second dharma talk from the MRZC weekend retreat is again full of wonderful teachings and stories from Dongshan. What is this life now, beyond theologies and categories?!
Inanimate Objects Speak the Dharma
/Rich with stories and teachings from Dongshan's life, Zoketsu Norman Fischer gives the first of two talks at the annual MRZC weekend retreat.
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.
Different Ways of Expressing What it is to be Human
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Myoshin Kate McCandless gives a dharma talk on one of humanity's great koans: gender. Can we release our fixed views on identity?
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?
A ZED talk for Earth Day
/Zen Engaged Dharma (ZED) talk by Kokai Michael Drebert on Gardening and the Wild.
ZED talks are informal talks by sangha members on how they take their practice into the world, and how their practice supports doing so.
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.
