How to Cook Your Life (4/
/Nin-en Susan Elbe reads correspondence between herself, Uchiyama Roshi, and Dogen Zenji as part of the dharma seminar on Instructions to the Cook.
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Camping Dharma
/Mysohin Kate McCandless takes us along her and Shinmon Michael Newton’s recent camping trip - a time for letting go into moment by moment experience…to include, notice, and release.
How can we be with nature in order to summon the life force and renewal we need to live bravely in these perilous times?
How to Cook Your Life (3/
/Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook, offering insights into Great Mind and Parental Mind.
What would it be like to fully the taste the experiences of each day? What kind of medicine bowl can be made with what’s available?
Practicing with Anxiety
/Joko Claire Talbot asks: in our distressing moments, before our limbic system kicks in to full gear, can we practice generosity towards ourselves, crossing over to the shore of peace and understanding?
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy” (Leo Buscaglia)
How to Cook Your Life (2/
/Jikai Vicki Turay gives a talk on chapters 3 and 4 of Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
Cooking is not a distraction from the more serious pursuit of meditation but rather an entry way to a deeper understanding of how our minds are intimately connected to all phenomena and to one’s buddha nature.
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.
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.
