Joy
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers insight into how, even with all the challenges the holiday season might bring, we can experience joy as one of the noble abodes.
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Impermanence and Uncertainty
/Shinmon Michael Newton asks how we might best respond to the uncertainty that is always present in our lives. In what way does living in sangha provide an opportunity to meet the unexpected and experience what enables the heart to be at peace?
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (7)
/Mysohin Kate McCandless gives the last talk of sesshin and concludes the story of Sudhana’s pilgrimage.
We only exist within the vast matrix of Indra’s Net, therefore the work of a Bodhisattva is never solitary. The greatest gift we can bring to the world is to give up our self-clinging.
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (6)
/Continuing the exploration of Samantabhadra's Ten Vows, Shinmon Michael Newton reminds us to never give up on ourselves, and to dedicate the merit we accrue towards the good of all beings.
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (5)
/Daikan John Green, the MRZC practice period 2024 shuso, shares thoughts on tea-service, interdependence, and on Indra's Net as a manifestation of ceaseless arising and passing away.
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (4)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless describes how even with our little internal monsters - with our backsliding, distraction, and confusion - if we look at ourselves with clear eyes, it is possible to recognize that we are all bodhisattvas on the path.
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (3)
/With an invitation to enter the moment and be open to things of beauty, Shinmon Michael Newton explores the nature of vow as something that is practiced, never completed.
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (2)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless describes doors of liberation, talks about the weather, and invites trust in the buddha-body of sangha during sesshin.
