To Acknowledge and Renew - Fusatsu
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers an exploration of Fusatsu (the full moon ccremony) - when sangha members have the opportunity to refresh and renew their relationship to the 16 boddhisatva precepts.
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Dialogues in a Dream - What is Your Relationship to the World?
/“Through desire we invite birth, through aversion we receive death.”
Shinmon Michael Newton continues the Wednesday evening seminar on Muso Soseki’s Dialogues in a Dream.
Zen Mind, Baby Mind
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers teachings and perspectives on the dharma and babies, in advance of a welcoming ceremony for baby Callum.
Dialogues in a Dream - To Read or Not to Read
/“Knowing is arrogance, not knowing is stupidity.”
For the third talk in our dharma seminar on Musō Soseki's writing, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: What is your relationship to reading Zen texts and commentaries?
Seeing our Demons
/Shinmon Michael Newton delves into Muso Soseki’s teachings on demons. How do we understand and address inner challenges?
Dialogues in a Dream - What is Compassion?
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers an exploration of Muso Soseki’s thoughts on compassion. Is it sentimental? Is it dharma based? Is it universal or is it dualistic?
The Karma of Words
/Myoshin Kate McCandless examines that most frustrating, troublesome, and beautiful of human faculties: language.
Dialogues in a Dream - What Would You Ask a Time-travelling Zen Master?
/Mysohin Kate McCandless introduces Zen master Musō Soseki and “Dialogues in a Dream" - a collection of ninety-three dialogues between the master and the shogun Ashikaga Tadayoshi.
