Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Water

Our inter-being with water is intricate and variable. Myoshin Kate McCandless invites us into the expanded enchantment of our water bodies.

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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a second dharma talk on water on the fourth evening of sesshin.

Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Earth

It is not possible to do the job perfectly, so is it possible to let the job do you? Shinmon Michael Newton offers an exploration of the earth element - where in your body do you feel solidity, and where is there something else?

Wildfire Dharma

Liz Toohey-Wiese shares insight into how it’s possible that the medicine and the sickness mutually heal.

Become What You Are

Myosen River asks: What does it mean to be a grownup?

Ordinary Wonder

Dai-i Flo Rublee explores the writing of Joko Beck and asks: what were you expected to be when you were growing up? What do you require of yourself as an adult?

To Be Free and Fearless

Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a talk on the Buddha as wounded healer. How might we be with an unexpected visitor? 

Here I Become Earth

Telling the story of a very old ginko tree and an old couple, Mysohin Kate McCandless wonders in what ways we bond with place. Can we adopt an expansive view of what it means to belong to the one Earth we all depend upon?

Time in the Garden

Shinmon Miichael Newton suggests Summer’s growth is a good time for connecting to the heart of trees, and to know the dharma of plants.