The Engage Wisdom Alpha Archive
| Title | Speaker | Broken handler search_api_index_talks.field_wisdom_date |
|---|---|---|
Sunday LectureFirst part of lecture children's program. Read story, "Play with Me". Impatient with world situation. Look at causes. Patience. Path of peace. Dog story. MLK Jr |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Sunday LectureFeet, toes - funny introduction. Memorial Day - historical information. War. Relating Memorial Day to our practice. |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
EthicsSunday lecture: Morality. Hedonists, perfectionists. College days. John Adams. Strawberry/cliff story. Wrong-doing = causing harm to oneself or others. Ten grave precepts. Gay rights. |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Wednesday LectureBuffalo passing through window koan. Farm and draft horses at GGF |
Marc Lesser | Green Gulch Farm |
Vimalakirti SutraSunday Lecture: Manjushri questioning Vimalakirti. How should one view all sentient beings - like the reflection of the moon in water, etc. Love. Wisdom of love. |
Lew Richmond | Green Gulch Farm |
Healing Through the Dark EmotionsSunday Lecture: Children's Lecture first part of the talk. Penguins. Dalai Lama. Short meditation. Mudras of Tara and Buddha. Dark emotions. Matthew Frick. Grief. Fear. Fearless Jack. Despair. A few... |
Wendy Johnson | Green Gulch Farm |
Man Alive Violence PreventionWendy Johnson and Martha de Barros invited guest speakers from the Man Alive program to talk about violence prevention and specifically the role of meditation in this. |
Wendy Johnson, Martha de Barros | Green Gulch Farm |
Sunday LectureAllow posture to align, pathway to liberation. Cultivate capacity to observe, name and describe, notice what we turn away from? Then cultivate interest and curiosity - zen people talk about shit and... |
Yvonne Rand | Green Gulch Farm |
Dogen Class: Miracles |
Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Green Gulch Farm |
Sesshin LectureAppreciation for the world happens. Don't go looking for heavenly sights. We get sticky around the beautiful. Master Heretung (?) letter - being in the world without misery (?) 1 - what has long been... |
Eijun Linda Cutts | Green Gulch Farm |
Sesshin Lecture |
Eijun Linda Cutts | Green Gulch Farm |
The Power of TenThe silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think; first calm the mind, then... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Just Being Alive Is EnoughThe season. Vows. New Year's Resolution |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
January Class |
Tenshin Reb Anderson | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
David Whyte | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
David Whyte | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
David Whyte | Green Gulch Farm |
HousekeepingSunday Lecture: Children's Program. The Indian children who used to live here. Indian story about how the world was made. Staying home and accomplishing the way. Gateway into enlightenment. Heart Sutra... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
John Kabat-Zinn | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
John Kabat-Zinn | Green Gulch Farm |
Workshop |
John Kabat-Zinn | Green Gulch Farm |
Sunday Lecture |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
Wednesday LectureLinda Ruth with her sick mother. The mountain lion. The bobcat. The rat. New film, "The Passion of Christ". Self-restraint. Mindfulness of the body. Angulimala. |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
One-Day Sitting LectureThis human body is the entire world in the ten directions. Can you be stopped? Bodhicitta. Compassion. Thinking. Hatred. Not indulging in habitual thoughts of hatred. Say no. "Body and mind study of... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Sunday Lecture |
Lew Richmond | Green Gulch Farm |
Buddhism, Christianity, War and PeaceSunday Lecture: Two types of training: compassion and wisdom (wisdom: the entire universe is the true human body); US history; Christianity (is evil 'outside' or not); Mara compared with Devil; Review... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Citizenship - Sitting-in-zenSunday Lecture: Three R's of eco-practice/stewardship of land and meditation practice: Rootedness, relatedness, responsibility. Moving below to an unseen place |
Wendy Johnson | Green Gulch Farm |
Which Is The Real Seijo?One-day sitting lecture: when our "soul is split", what is true? Just sitting in the midst of samsara. |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Flop DogOne-day sitting lecture: not accomplishing anything. |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
Non-Thinking and the Twelve-Fold Chain of CausationSunday Lecture |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Sacred SpaceSunday Lecture |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
Making MistakesSunday Lecture |
Yvonne Rand | Green Gulch Farm |
Living The Good LifeSunday Lecture |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Breathing In and Breathing OutOne-day sitting lecture: Book of Serenity Case 3, Anapanasati Sutta, Six Subtle Dharma Gates |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
QuestioningSunday Lecture: zen as a return to Buddha's natural questioning, rather than a religious institution with fancy temples, robes, statues, etc |
Lew Richmond | Green Gulch Farm |
Sitting Under The Rose-Apple TreeSunday Lecture |
Wendy Johnson | Green Gulch Farm |
Four Motivations For PracticeSunday Lecture: 1- rare to be born as human; 2 - impermanence of life; 3 - the effect of actions; 4 - suffering of cyclical existence. What is the practice? Letting go of fear, of insecurity, of not... |
Kokyo Henkel | Green Gulch Farm |
Sunday LectureWorld's largest ball of twine, snobbery, insight, calming our minds, shamata - tranquility practce, Dhammapada, monuments to warfare, GGF farm and kids, hate crime and Tam High, Harvey Milk, It's... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
StatusSunday Lecture: status games in conversation, hard-wired, power, humor, reversal of status, Marx Bros, Don Rickles, court fools, Dr Zhivago, improv. changing of roles, status of a church, hitting the... |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
Small PotatoesSunday Lecture: "Just to be alive is enough" (Suzuki Roshi) - dissatisfaction even when we "have everything" - acedia/noonday sickness - spiritual dryness - "small potatoes" - little details of life... |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |
Wheel of Birth and DeathSunday Lecture: Children's stories: earth moving around the sun is one year; "stone soup"; thinking and not thinking; Tibetan wheel of birth and death - six realms, twelve-fold chain of causation;... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Natural LiberationSunday Lecture: Buddha only teaches what leads to liberation; methods of liberation: 1 - Hinayana - renunciation; 2 - Mahayana- purification; 3 - Vajrayana - transformation; 4 - Zen - natural... |
Kokyo Henkel | Green Gulch Farm |
Beans, Gratitude, GenerositySunday Lecture - Children's Lecture |
Wendy Johnson | Green Gulch Farm |
Rootedness, Relatedness, ResponsibilityWednesday Lecture: zen practice and ecology |
Wendy Johnson | Green Gulch Farm |
Birth and DeathSunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: children's story - Amos and Boris; response to Hurrican Katrina; Story of king, knowing death is coming; vowing to live for the benefit of all; story of... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
No SelfOne-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions; Bodhisattva precepts - the... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Zhaozhou's NoSunday Lecture: Milton's 'Paradise Lost'; myth of Narcissus; Four Noble Truths; Zhaozhou's "No": Marin Organizing Committee/Seniors for Peace Perfect Wisdom |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Alive or Dead?Sunday Lecture: Koan: "Alive or Dead" (Daowu's condolence call); mind fleas; confession; too busy; leap or die when at an impasse; story of Buddha and king - what else can I do but walk... |
Fu Schroeder | Green Gulch Farm |
Treasury of LightSesshin Lecture: light can't be seen - only reflections off objects; Koun Ejo's Treasury of Light Samadhi; myth of Phaeton and Helios - driving the sun chariot; Yunmen: What is everyone's light? The... |
Kokyo Henkel | Green Gulch Farm |
Yes!Sesshin Lecture: just sitting with no technique or theme; monk: what about when not carrying anything? Zhaozhou: put it down; Shakyamuni holding up the flower; zazen in everyday life, all the time;... |
Daigan Lueck | Green Gulch Farm |