Listening to the Wild - Speaking as a Tree
/Jikai Vicki shares reflections on the recent MRZC Summer sesshin and Dogen’s Mountains and Waters sutra.
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How to Cook Your Life (1/
/Dai- Flo Rublee offers the first talk in a new seminar Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
What are the activities of true adults in the world today?
Special Talk for Pride Weekend
/Myosen River Shannon suggests the possibilities of gender embodiment and existence are infinite. Healing and awakening are mutually enriching experiences, not separate.
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 6)
/In the final talk of the sesshin, Shinmon Michael Newton explores the notion of the unknown in the wild and along the path of practice.
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 5)
/Drawing on the essay “Survival and Sacrament” by Gary Snyder, Myoshin Kate McCandless reflects on how our lives are intertwined with all other beings.
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 4)
/Shinmon Michael Newton draws on Gary Snyder’s essay “Good, Wild, Sacred” to consider the notion of the wild both within us and around us.
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 3)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless explores living and practicing in place through Gary Snyder’s essay “The Place, the Region, and the Commons.”
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 2)
/In this talk, Shinmon Michael Newton discusses Gary Snyder’s essay “Blue Mountains Constantly Walking” and explores how the idea of the mountain can be expressed in our practice.
