The Old Way 1/
/Dai-i Flo Rublee gives the first dharma seminar on The Old Way, talks on texts from the Pali Canon.
“Can you see the importance of recognizing wholesome and unwholesome thoughts and their effect on others?”
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On Crooked Cucumbers
/Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk about David Chadwick, a Soto Zen priest, author, archivist, and one of the earliest disciples of Shunryu Suzuki (February 9, 1945 - February 23, 2026).
“I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”
Natural Healing
/Myoshin Kate McCandless acknowledges that our deeper wounds need to be given protection and healing care. The darts and arrows of a human life can be sharp and painful - the body and mind are supported by practicing the dharma.
Genzo-e Closing Retreat 2/2
/Shinmon Michael Newton affirms that our practice is complete in each moment -- each moment of thought transcends all time. As Dogen would say: there is nothing to add or take away.
Genzo-e Closing Retreat 1/2
/Myoshin Kate McCandless encourages the perspective that even though we are very far away in time from Dogen, we are part of the movement and transmission of dharma.
The Poetry of Flowers
/Myoshin Kate McCandless looks at how poets before and after Dogen have used blossoms in their writing. From a smile, to dynamic interrelationship, to a burning house - all is real, all is unreal.
The Problem is the Problem
/Shuso Heito Lee Lourdeaux explores how anger can transmute into compassion. "Understanding is love's other name."
Putting Into Motion Our Awakened Nature
/Shinmon Michael Newton reinforces that for us, reality is continuously expressing itself as this moment - and your life and practice is not separate from that expression.
