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Gazing at Flowers on the Roof of Hell

Sunday Lecture: learning zazen with Soen Roshi in Jerusalem - interfaith practice; Easter - rebirth; Issa "Walking together on the roof of hell, looking at flowers"; Wendy's house flooded...

Wendy Johnson Green Gulch Farm

Have Some Tea

Sunday Lecture: "Have you been here before? Have some tea"; judgment and conduct; Four Noble Truths; Eightfold Path; ethics and etiquette

Joshu, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch Farm

You Are Perfect Just As You Are

Sunday Lecture: Good father/not a good father; improv - looking foolish and still feeling good; being fully yourself - responsible and flexible; simplicity of practice; communication and identity and...

Marc Lesser Green Gulch Farm

Stopping and Listening

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: Baby beluga; why are you here?; Dogen's Three Minds: joyful mind, kind mind, big mind; mother's love as essence of spirituality (Dalai Lama); parental...

Tenzo Kyokun, Big Mind, Birth-and-Death
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Buddhas And Sentient Beings Are Not Two

One-day sitting lecture: positive encouragement; nirvana; five hindrances; preliminary practices; three worlds; jhanas - benefits and ptifalls; Four Noble Truths; Mahayana

Five Hindrances, Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Dhyana
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch Farm

No Self

Sunday Lecture: zen sayings: "Who's dragging this corpse around?; sense of self - root of all suffering; need to understand no-self, not just conceptually; Buddhist tool kit for understanding no-self;...

Kokyo Henkel Green Gulch Farm

Breathing In, Breathing Out

Sunday Lecture: simplicity; story of Prajnatara in Malawi; the sun comes up, the sun goes down; connections; the four foundations of mindfulness; Navajo rain dance

Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Simplicity
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch Farm

Hand Me Midnight

Sunday Lecture: Daigan's trip to Bali; ritual; poems from Daigan's new book, "Hand Me Midnight"

Daigan Lueck Green Gulch Farm

The Gift of Nothing

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: one who is not busy, one reality; the gift of nothing; sesshin, from Suzuki Roshi; our mind is the same as Buddha's; all things are impermanent; illusion of...

Buddha's Enlightenment, Sesshin, Koan, Daowu, Keizan
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch Farm

Generosity

Sunday Lecture: cultivation of generosity for ourselves and others; training for dying by how we live; not wasting time; noticing the passing away; generosity before virtue

Yvonne Rand Green Gulch Farm

The Bodhisattva Grandmother

Deshan and the old woman; the distortions of sexism, racism, others; the bodhisattva grandmother; devotion to zazen; bringing attention and support to the natural states/bodily conditions that are...

Deshan, Family Practice
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Alignment With The Great Way

Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: waging peace; taking up a practice

Zhaozhou, Suzuki Roshi
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

The Teachings of Chao Chou

Sunday Lecture: the stories of Chao Chou; Hsin Hsin Ming - koan("I alone am the World-Honored One"); mu - cutting through yes and no; not holding to preferences

Kokyo Henkel Green Gulch Farm

Being Uncomfortable

Sunday Lecture: What do we do when we become uncomfortable?; comfort - in body, mind, relationships - are focus of our consumerism; suffering = constant need to be fed; entertainment keeps us busy so...

Daigan Lueck Green Gulch Farm

Living in Accord with Birth and Death

Sesshin Lecture: confirming Buddha nature; sesshin: gathering of heart/mind; what's the business under the patchwork robe?; story of Patacara

Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Patacara
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin Practices

Sesshin Lecture: ordinary mind is the Tao; practice of confession; guilt/shame; Self-Receiving and -Employing Samadhi

Sesshin, Zhaozhou, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

The Secrets of the Body

Sesshin Lecture: great effort, no result; ritual, bowing; Diamond Sutra; boundaries

Right Effort, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Nature
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Check The Messenger Within

Strategies, gaining ideas; "paying it forward"; close investigation of the self; Orpheus and Eurydice; Rilke; hidden anger - staying with the emotion 

Dongshan, Sesshin, Suzuki Roshi
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin Lecture

Architecture at GGF; Layman Pang; many sesshins; "gamble everything on love"; sesshin romance and the potentiality of the present moment; recognizing your Buddha nature in your life now;...

Sesshin, Layman Pang, Suzuki Roshi, Sandokai
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin as a Koan for the Body

Sesshin Lecture: Easter/Buddha's Birthday; enlightenment experiences; dharmakaya; not doing anything; nirmanakaya; this is your life

Sesshin, Enlightenment, San Quentin, Zazen
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

Three Characteristics of Phenomena

One-day sitting lecture: "no eyes, no ears..." Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra

Daigan Lueck Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Yvonne Rand Green Gulch Farm

The Greater Discourse and the Destruction of Craving

Sunday Lecture

Zoketsu Norman Fischer Green Gulch Farm

Mindful Journey to Zen Liberation

Tenshin Reb Anderson

Shuso Ceremony

SR023 Last 2/3 side 2 Philip's discussion ceremony - copied 2 tapes [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A - per tape operator's comments]

Sesshin, Shuso Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi, Philip Wilson CTassajara

Mystical Depths of John's Gospel

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Divine Mystery and Mystical Wisdom

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Journey to Divine Union in John

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Eucharist: Faith, Transformation, Divine Love

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Transforming Faith in John's Gospel

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Eucharist Enlightenment in John

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Divine Kingship in John's Passion

Fr. Demetrius Dumm, OSB Abbey of the Genesee

Let Go, Accept Your Function, and Mutually Respond

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Graciously Share Yourself

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Sharing Nirvana Amid Living Beings

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Hongzhi's Rhythms of Nature and Sangha Harmony

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Interact Positively and Appropriately

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

The Deep Source Undisturbed by Conditioning

ADZG Sesshin,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Shifting to Ancestral Zen

ADZG Sesshin,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Mutual Response of Ancestral Ways

ADZG Sesshin,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Appropriate Response to the Current Crisis

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Positive Visions from Yunmen and Dogen in Response to our Global Crisis

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Independence Day and Bodhisattva Liberation in the Age of Trump: The Deep History of U.S. Non-Democracy and Positive Responses and Vision

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Independence day and Bodhisattva Liberation part 2: Radical Respect and Speaking Truth to Power

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

One Bright Pearl and Dogen's "Understanding"

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

The True Human Body and Dogen's Intimacy and Estrangement

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Zazen as Creative Expression

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Zazen and Generosity

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Hiroshima, Psychic Numbing, and Zazen

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Bodhisattva Songs: Dylan's Chimes of Freedom and When the Deal Goes Down

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Taigen Dan Leighton Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

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