Soto Zen Practice in Vancouver, BC
Recent talks can be found below.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless gives the last talk in the dharma seminar on Musō Soseki’s writing.
“I am seeking nothing special. Even for my guests I have nothing to offer except these white stones and this clear spring water.”
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.
“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.
Myoshin Kate McCandless offers teachings and perspectives on the dharma and babies, in advance of a welcoming ceremony for baby Callum.
“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?
Shinmon Michael Newton delves into Muso Soseki’s teachings on demons. How do we understand and address inner challenges?
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?
Myoshin Kate McCandless examines that most frustrating, troublesome, and beautiful of human faculties: language.
MRZC's Soto Zen practice emphasizes being fully awake to our own moment-to-moment experience, from our meditation cushion to every aspect of our everyday life. Join us!
Mountain Rain Zen Community's Wall street Zendo and Bright Stream Temple (Koryuji) are situated on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Let's let our time in nature not be just another way of consumption, but a way of learning from the web of interconnection--
Mountain Rain Zen Community
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