Recordings

Ko’in shares her insights about merit followed by questions and reflections.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Our practice is serious and sometimes intense. What does it mean to be lighthearted in Zen? A talk about goofing around, telling jokes, and joy.

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In Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki likens Zen practice to learning to bake dough into bread. “Just to practice zazen and put ourselves in the oven is our way.” It sounds so uncomfortable. Why would we want to do this?

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Kakumyo explores how we pursue, receive, integrate, and make use of insight.

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Some things we really need to hold on to and other things we need to let go of. But both of these have traps to fall into – clinging/attachment with one, passivity/indifference or aversion with the other. How do we discern when to do which, and how to do so skillfully?

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What’s moving with tech mind?

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Let us consider that morning meal, which has so much to offer.

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The Buddha pointed to the benefit of reflecting on intoxication. Daigai followed this guidance during the Spring Ango term. In this Student Talk he shares what he learned.

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Three participants from the ten-day Emerging Sangha Leadership Training offered brief talks and took questions.

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Yes, Gyoshi revisits this central teaching with you. He intends to go beyond basic definition and philosophy, instead concentrating on why you might want to invite Impermanence into your active practice and how you might do that.

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Kakumyo discusses a parable from the Lotus Sutra on the koan of perceiving support. Something we all need to stretch into during challenging times.

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Equanimity is one of the qualities of a seasoned Buddhist practitsioner that is most frequently misunderstood. Kakumyo explore how equanimity functions, its cultivation, and what that says about the workings of mind.

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Reiju discusses her own experience with chronic pain, a workshop she took with others on practicing with chronic pain and illnesss, and some of the ways she finds practicing with pain connects her to dharma and sangha.

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Sometimes the effort to awaken seems to be entirely up to us alone. Sometimes the effort seems to require much more than we ourselves can give. We will explore the idea of ‘self-power and other-power’ in our lives and practice.

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Genko continues to look at the Precept “Do not dwell on past mistakes.” This time she focuses on the second paragraph of the commentary. What does it mean to say, “One path, one dharma, one realization, one practice”? How does that relate to fault-finding and haphazard talk?

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Kakumyo shares a Dharma Talk.

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Tsuho talks about forms of the kesa worn in our lineage and how they are inseparable from our practice.

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Families and children participate in Full Morning Service. After the break, Flying Fish offers a two-part dharma talk, beginning with a story-based talk especially tuned to young people. Part-two of the dharma talk continues after families who wish to join the sing-along go to the library for that.

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The sixth Grave Precept says, “Do not dwell on past mistakes. Create wisdom from ignorance.” What does it mean to create wisdom from ignorance? And how do we do it?

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Kakumyo talks about kaleidoscopes, mycellium, and other complexities.

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Gyate, gyate — going, going. But where are we going? 

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How many ways are there to work with a wound, hurt, or hindrance, in a meditation practice? In “Flowering in Emptiness,” (Kuge) Zen Master Dogen puts forward an intriguing possibility.

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Whether we call it cooperation or nondifference or making friends, the bodhisattva quality of taking the view of others is a challenge and a gift. What does it mean to really see from another’s point of view?

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Genko examines the phenomenon of paradigm shift as it affects the broader society, various academic study areas, and moving into looking at our own personal lives. How do we recognize and navigate the inevitable change we face, both internal and external?

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We would like to be in harmony with the conditions of our life, but so often, we wish things could be different than the way they are. Acceptance is our practice. How do we work with it?

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Flying Fish takes a deeper dive into the three refuges. What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha? Our spiritual ancestors point to this practice as essential to realizing the teachings. Hearing the words, and receiving the blessing or merit can be very different experiences. What do we mean when we take refuge in the triple treasure?

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Tsuho talks about a five-year project to study Dogen’s Shobogenzo and how sutra study can enrich practice.

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Kakumyo speaks about unattached effort. How do we manage the details of life with buoyancy?

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