Practice Period Opening Weekend (4/5)
/In part of her role as shuso, Myosen River gives a Way-Seeking Mind Talk.
“Emptiness is not erasure, it’s a promise and a warning.”
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Practice Period Opening Weekend (3/5)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless introduces the Practice Period theme of Our Women Ancestors, and describes how the lens will be turned onto what it is for us to live and awaken in the fullness of our embodied life in these difficult times on earth.
Practice Period Opening Weekend (2/5)
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk on one of his dearly treasured woman ancestors, the nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu.
Practice Period Opening Weekend (1/5)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a talk on one of her dearly treasured woman ancestors, 17th century nun - Ziyong Chengru.
Way Seeking Mind Talk with Unmon Jacob Butula
/A first koan: how does one get in "the zone" and then stay in "the zone"?
How to Cook Your Life (7/)
/Daikan offers insight into the suffering and instability we create for ourselves. In what way is the position of Tenzo (head cook) a metaphor for the settled life that is grounded in zazen?
Zazenkai
/Shinmon Michael Newton suggests retreats (such as the day-long zazenkai hosted at Bright Stream Temple) are an opportunity to sit with others, to notice our busy minds, and to work on letting thoughts go. Returning to innocent mind, the question is asked: "What is this life?"
How to Cook Your Life (6/)
/Continuing the dharma seminar on Uchiyama’s commentary on Dogen’s Instructions to the Cook Shinmon Michael Newton asks: as this is the only life you get, how do you look deeply to know who you are?
“In attachement blossoms fall, in aversion weeds spread” -Dogen
