Bringing Zen Home- Practice Period Week Two - Wednesday
/Shinmon focuses on home altars as a part of embodied practice.
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Practice Period Opening Weekend (5/5)
/Shinmon Michael Newton parses apart the title for this year’s practice period In this Lifetime, In this Body: Cultivating Embodied Wisdom and Compassion with our Women Ancestors, and asks himself how he understands his malenesss as it shapes and colours his practice.
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.”
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?
