Dogen Intensive: Miracles (1/3 - Opening Retreat)

Mysoshin Kate McCandless offers a deep dive into what Dogen meant by saying miracles are "the tea and rice of buddha's house".

Everyday Zen (6/9): Suffering

Dai-i Flo Rublee offers the last instalment in our dharma seminar - Chapter 5 from Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen - with the suggestion that we don't have to be engaged in endless struggle with forces external to ourselves.

"No old age and death. No end to old age and death. No suffering. No end to suffering." (the Heart Sutra)

Anger and Forgiveness

Kakuko Kaye Simard offers a talk on anger as a path of transformation.

Everyday Zen (5/9): Ideals

Jikai Vicki Turay continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck’s  Everyday Zen asking the question: Do our ideals serve us or confuse us? Are they guiding principles or subtle forms of attachement?

What is Death with Dignity?

In honour of the Buddha's parinirvana, Shinmon Michael Newton asks: how does realizing our self-nature free us from birth and death? 

Everyday Zen (4/9): Relationships

"Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship." (Charlotte Joko Beck)

Shinmon Michael Newton continues our dharma seminar, exploring how we can perceive and navigate relationships with mindfulness and presence. 

Truth and Beauty in Hard Times

Myoshin Kate McCandless asks, with so much seeming to be so awry in the world right now, how can we  meet beauty and truth in unexpected moments and guises.

Everyday Zen (3/9): Feelings

Daikan John Green continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen, in which Joko describes how sitting can be like opening a Pandora’s box — which looks still and pretty on the outside, but can release a swarm of intense feelings. How do we experience these feelings as they arise, without being caught by ‘emotion-thought’?