How to deal with peak experiences in our lives.
Monastic experience across religious traditions.
Lecture Series
Tokubetsu Sesshin
Wednesday night dharma talk
Wednesday talk; the heart and determination to study - to support and appreciate the practice period.
Wednesday dharma talk.
Class
Wednesday talk. Poem; anxiety about things finishing; expressing ourselves, failure, resentment.
Sunday talk
Wednesday talk. Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen.
Sunday talk; what does that mean - what's that? Finding out what this means is a vast undertaking.
Sunday talk. Children's lecture. Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness.
Yunmen's appropriate response; being Buddha right where you are: Master Ma being ready to die;
Coming to Zen Center to receive training; extensive discussion and planting rice fields can both be appropriate response;
Listening to each others' stories; Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights;
The personal practice of paying attention to the posture of samadhi; mindfulness of breathing; remembering stillness as transmitted by the ancestors;
How to be with the fire that surrounds us; Buddha sitting upright, clearly observing, accepting all suffering; watching our fears about not being able to control things.
Manjushri's 'the teaching of the Buddha is thus'; accepting suffering and pleasure; being gentle with your own body.
Buddha's sitting - who do you think you are; ; Buddha, dharma and sangha are all-pervading; Yunmen's appropriate response.
Control is antithetical to enlightenment; NASA control center and GPS guidance systems; granddaughter's pacifier