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Dharma Talks given at Austin Zen Center
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2023 Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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2023 Rohatsu Sesshin Day 4
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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2023 Rohatsu Sesshin Day 2
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Some Thoughts on Detachment
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Guest Teacher Kenkai Brandon Lamson
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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the original heart of the single great matter of buddha ancestors
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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In activity and stillness, one community
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Radiance (Komyo)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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The Five Hindrances
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Light and Dark
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Punyayashas Part II
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Punyayashas Part I
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Parshva Part II
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Parshva Part I
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Buddhamitra Part II
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Buddhamitra Part I
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Buddhanandi Part II
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Buddhanandi Part I
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Vasumitra
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Denko-e Retreat: Welcome and Introduction
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Love and Fear
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Creating Sanctuary Within
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Right Speech, Kind Speech
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Aliveness in Body and Mind
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Humor and Laughter and Practice
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Disappointment
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Emptiness and the Felt Experience
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Burglar and the Empty House
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May 13, 2023 |
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Renunciation
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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An Appropriate Response
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Karma of Food
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Hell Is Other People
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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The Third Remembrance
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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The Five Remembrances
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Life Is but a Dream
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Crossing Over
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Putting the Joy in Jukai
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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You Can't Do It Wrong
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5: Be Before Thinking
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 4: Keizan's Zazen Yojinki
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 2: The Writings of Keizan Zenji
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 1: Dogen and Keizan
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Dogen's Genjokoan: Part 2
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Dogen's Genjokoan: Part 1
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Repentance
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Encountering Dogen's Early Teachings, class 3
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The Hungry Ghosts
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Encountering Dogen's Early Teachings, class 2
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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What is Karma?
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Ango, Practice Period
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Mindfulness as Taught in Zen
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Zazen Is Not Learning Meditation
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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No Merit
|
Jul 23, 2022 |
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Upaya: Doing What Works
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Zen and Work
|
Jul 02, 2022 |
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Why Are We Here?
|
Jun 04, 2022 |
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What is Zen Practice? (Part 3)
|
May 28, 2022 |
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Impermanence and the Passage of Time
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May 21, 2022 |
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Not Always So
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May 14, 2022 |
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What is Zen Practice? (Part 2)
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May 07, 2022 |
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The Hook In My Heart
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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What is Zen Practice?
|
Apr 16, 2022 |
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Why Do We Celebrate the Buddha's Birthday?
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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The Brutal Legacy of War
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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What is the Most Important Point?
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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The Song of the Grass Roof Hut
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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The Teaching of No Coming and No Going
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Living Buddhism: Showing Up as Bodhisattvas
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Being the Eye in the Storm of Appearances
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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A Zen Response to the Climate Emergency
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Dogen's Vow
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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The Monastic Life - A Journey to Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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The Seuss of Zen: Does the Grinch Have Buddha Nature?
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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What is Enlightenment?
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Buddha and the Morning Star (Rohatsu Day 7)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Kumarata Awakens to Knowing Former Lives (Rohatsu Day 6)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Who is the Mind? (Rohatsu Day 5)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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The Self Is Not The Self (Rohatsu Day 4)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Maintaining the Wind of the House (Rohatsu Day 3)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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How Do You Embrace Big Mind? (Rohatsu Day 2)
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Keizan Zenji and the Light (Rohatsu Day 1)
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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The Paramita of Dana (Generosity)
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 6/6)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Suzuki Roshi on Buddha Nature (Part 2 of 2)
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Suzuki Roshi on Buddha Nature (Part 1 of 2)
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 5/6)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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A Conversation About Merit
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 4/6)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature Like a Sleeping Monkey
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 3/6)
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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What is the Business Under the Patched Robe?
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 2/6)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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On Sitting Zazen
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Buddha Nature and the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā (Lecture 1/6)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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The Union of Emptiness and Compassion
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Deciphering Dogen
|
Oct 02, 2021 |
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Refuge in Sangha
|
Sep 25, 2021 |
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When You Are You, Zen is Zen
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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The Self-Centered Dream
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Expounding a Dream Within a Dream
|
Aug 28, 2021 |
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Take Your Next Step With Confidence
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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The Seamless Monument
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Embodying Relationality
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Diving Into the Cold Completely
|
Jul 10, 2021 |
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What Do You Call the World?
|
Jun 26, 2021 |
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Upagupta and Our Tightly Held Views
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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The Stages of Zen Practice
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
|
May 29, 2021 |
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Silence
|
May 22, 2021 |
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Springing From the Soil of Possibility
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May 15, 2021 |
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The Space of Silence
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The True Person of No Rank
|
Apr 03, 2021 |
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Accountability: Who Do We Practice For?
|
Mar 27, 2021 |
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Contentment
|
Mar 13, 2021 |
|
It's a Thin Soup
|
Mar 06, 2021 |
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What Is Lay Practice?
|
Feb 27, 2021 |
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Gyobutsu Igi (The Awesome Presence of Active Buddhas)
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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The Deepest Peace In the Midst of Chaos
|
Feb 13, 2021 |
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The Forms and Formality of Zen
|
Feb 06, 2021 |
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The Way of the Bodhisattva
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Yunyan Sweeps the Ground
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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What is Happening? How Do We Respond?
|
Jan 16, 2021 |
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Is there Buddhadharma in the New Year?
|
Jan 09, 2021 |
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New Year's Resolution
|
Jan 02, 2021 |
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Yin and Yang, Flowing Into One Another
|
Dec 19, 2020 |
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Enlightenment Not Guaranteed
|
Dec 12, 2020 |
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True Refuge Has To Be All Inclusive
|
Dec 05, 2020 |
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The 100 Percent Reliable Refuge
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Only a Buddha and a Buddha, Together, Embodied
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Taking Refuge In This Very Moment
|
Nov 15, 2020 |
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Do No Harm
|
Nov 14, 2020 |
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What Does it Mean to be a Buddhist?
|
Nov 07, 2020 |
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Taking Refuge in the Triple Treasure: Meeting Our Life Together
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Finding Our Place Amidst What Is
|
Oct 24, 2020 |
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Dharma Transmission and the Family Way
|
Oct 10, 2020 |
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How to Turn Towards Uncertainty As Our Practice
|
Oct 03, 2020 |
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Receiving the Bodhisattva Precepts
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Are You Out of Your Mind?
|
Sep 19, 2020 |
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The Hidden Arrow
|
Sep 12, 2020 |
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What and Who Are Our Ancestors Now?
|
Sep 05, 2020 |
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Knowing, Not Knowing, and Self Compassion
|
Aug 22, 2020 |
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What Does It Mean to Help?
|
Aug 15, 2020 |
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Anger
|
Aug 08, 2020 |
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The Bodies We Wake Up In
|
Aug 01, 2020 |
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Jiriki and Tariki
|
Jul 25, 2020 |
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A Buddhist Response to the Issues of Our Times
|
Jul 18, 2020 |
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Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Control and the Bodhisattva Precepts
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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How Can Our Practice Inform Our Search for Social Justice
|
Jun 13, 2020 |
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Undoing Spiritual Bypassing
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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May All Beings Be Delivered From Oppression
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May 30, 2020 |
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Dispatch from Bali
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May 23, 2020 |
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Remembering Zenkei Blanche Hartman
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May 16, 2020 |
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How Do We Practice Love?
|
May 09, 2020 |
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Ordinary Mind is the Tao
|
May 02, 2020 |
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How Do We Establish Sangha in the Time of Shelter in Place?
|
Apr 25, 2020 |
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Navigating the World of Myriad Things
|
Apr 18, 2020 |
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How Do We Meet Times of Great Difficulty?
|
Apr 11, 2020 |
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Choosing to Be Ourselves
|
Apr 04, 2020 |
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Doing the Impossible Every Day
|
Mar 28, 2020 |
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What Is This Being On Hold?
|
Mar 21, 2020 |
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Belonging...To One's Self, To One's Community
|
Mar 14, 2020 |
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The Lion's Roar
|
Feb 29, 2020 |
|
The Buddha's Final Teaching
|
Feb 22, 2020 |
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What Happens at Sarusawa Pond
|
Feb 08, 2020 |
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Religious Authority and Spiritual Gaslighting
|
Feb 01, 2020 |
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Stepping Off the Hundred Food Pole
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Setting Intentions for a New Year
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Jan 18, 2020 |
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Denko-e Sesshin Day 2 Afternoon
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Denko-e Sesshin Day 2 Morning
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Denko-e Sesshin Day 2 Afternoon
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Transmitting the Light: The Story of Vasubandhu
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Denko-e Sesshin Day 1 Afternoon
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Denko-e Sesshin Day 1 Morning
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Don't Outsource Your Decision Making
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Jan 04, 2020 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5: Enlightenment, Death, and Letting Go
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 4: Dogen's Enlightenment
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 3: Embodiment
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 2: The Luminous Jewel
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 1: How to Hear the Birds Sing
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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How We Get Into Trouble With Other People
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Nov 16, 2019 |
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Where is the Compassion in Zen Practice?
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Nov 09, 2019 |
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Transforming Bad Circumstances Into Good Ones
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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Honoring the Hungry Ghosts
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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Lojong Sayings and the Four Remembrances
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Oct 19, 2019 |
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The Foundational Preliminary: Anapanasati
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Zazen is Good for Nothing
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Oct 05, 2019 |
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Seeking...and Finding
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Sep 28, 2019 |
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The Cycle of Practice, Community, and Nourishment
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Sep 21, 2019 |
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The Practice of Generosity
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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The Emptiness of the Three Wheels
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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The Problem of Evil
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Aug 17, 2019 |
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The Six Paramitas
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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The Five Hindrances
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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Embodied Practice
|
Jul 13, 2019 |
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The Three Poisons
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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Now You Have It, So Keep It Well
|
Jun 29, 2019 |
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Meditation Practice as Nourishment
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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Trust in Stillness
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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Spring Sesshing Day 4
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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Spring Sesshing Day 3
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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Spring Sesshing Day 2
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Spring Sesshing Day 1
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Buddha Mind
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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Shin, The Heart-Mind
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May 18, 2019 |
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Mind
|
May 11, 2019 |
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The Way Seeking Mind
|
May 04, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 6
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 5
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 4
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 3
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 2
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Genzo-e Study Sesshin Talk 1
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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This Can Only Happen Between a Buddha and a Buddha
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Lineage: Who's In and Who's Out
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Finding Spaciousness
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Searching for a Pillow in the Dark
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Zen Culture
|
Feb 09, 2019 |
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Growing Up and Staying Present
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Tapping Into Wisdom
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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The Now Button
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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The Practice of Loving Kindness
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Settings Intentions for a New Year
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Just Show Up
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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Leaving Home to Belong in the Here and Now (Rohatsu Day 8)
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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Continuous Contact (Rohatsu Day 7)
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Enjoyment, Renunciation, and Unrepeatable Moments (Rohatsu Day 6)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Interconnectedness Among the Seven Factors of Awakening (Rohatsu Day 5)
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Body and Mind Study of the Way (Rohatsu Day 4)
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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I Don't Take Your Words Merely as Words (Rohatsu Day 3)
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Which of the Three Realms Do You Abide In? (Rohatsu Day 2)
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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Gathering the Heart Mind (Rohatsu Day 1)
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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The Practice of Gratitude
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Nov 24, 2018 |
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Two Entries, Four Practices
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Don't know and OK!
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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The Three Gifts
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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The Threefold Training
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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Men Mitsu No Kafu
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Is That So?
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Ordinary Action
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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Sila as Joy
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Speaking for the Dead
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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Trusting the Universe
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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On Aging
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Aug 11, 2018 |
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Returning to This Moment
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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Adoring the Buddha Realm
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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Religious Experience
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Jul 14, 2018 |
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Opening to the Joys and Cries of the World
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Jul 07, 2018 |
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Our Boundless Lives
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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Renunciation and Relinquishment
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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How Do We Know What's True?
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Jun 02, 2018 |
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Find Out For Yourself
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May 12, 2018 |
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About Compassion
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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What Does Practice Ask of Me?
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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Panel Discussion with Visiting Monks
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Mar 10, 2018 |
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What To Do When We Don't Know What To Do
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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The Three Bodies of Buddha
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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Contextualizing Buddhist Traditions
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Jan 27, 2018 |
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What's in an intention?
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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Holding Conditions Lightly
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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Rohatsu 2017 Day 3
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Leaving Home
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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On Gratitude
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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What is the Way-Seeking Life?
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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Being Stuck, Being at Home
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Nov 04, 2017 |
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What brings us to a Zen center?
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Oct 14, 2017 |
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Encouraging Your Practice
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Oct 07, 2017 |
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Hungry Ghosts and the Six Realms of Existence
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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The Five Invitations to Practice
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Sep 23, 2017 |
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Only a Buddha and a Buddha
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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The Transition of Right Now
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Sep 02, 2017 |
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Ordinary Mind is the Way
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Aug 19, 2017 |
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Letting Go
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Aug 12, 2017 |
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Your Perspective Is (Most Likely) Not The Only One: Keep Investigating!
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Aug 05, 2017 |
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Traditions and Other Social Constructs vs. Radical Contingency
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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What Is Zen Anyway?!
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Jul 22, 2017 |
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Robert Thomas Answers Questions. Reflections on the Past Year, and the Future
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Of Baseball and Zen: Being Ready to Accept What Comes, Moment After Moment
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
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Jun 24, 2017 |
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Face To Face Transmission: Practical Considerations
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Jun 03, 2017 |
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Control Center
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May 27, 2017 |
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From Practicing Compassion to Compassion as Practice
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May 13, 2017 |
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Don't Mess With Your Dreams
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May 06, 2017 |
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Nothing Not Included
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Creativity, Authenticity, and Connectivity: We Are All Mushroom Heads
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Apr 15, 2017 |
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Mind Itself is Buddha (Part 2)
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Mind Itself is Buddha (Part 3)
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Returning To Where We Are
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Apr 08, 2017 |
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Mind Itself is Buddha (Part 1)
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Practicing The No Gain Idea
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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Practice Realization On And Off The Cushion In Daily Life And At Work
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Mar 18, 2017 |
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Suffering, Recovering, and How We Learn
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Mar 11, 2017 |
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Shine One Corner of the World
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Mar 04, 2017 |
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The Right Use of Power
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Feb 18, 2017 |
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Are You Doing What You Really Want to Do: Free Jazz and "Refraining From"
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Feb 11, 2017 |
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What makes Zen unique among Buddhist teachings?
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Jan 28, 2017 |
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On Mettā: Loving-Kindness
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Jan 21, 2017 |
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Face to Face Transmission
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Jan 07, 2017 |
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Trapped in time: on being time and spaciousness
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Dec 17, 2016 |
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Know that you don't know: adapting to an ever changing world
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Dec 03, 2016 |
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Modernity and the Urge of Doing
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Nov 05, 2016 |
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Hsin Hsin Ming-and Sangha
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Oct 29, 2016 |
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Craving and Renunciation
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Oct 01, 2016 |
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Judgment, Discernment, and Compassion
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Sep 24, 2016 |
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Dropping off Body and Mind
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Sep 17, 2016 |
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Coming, Going, and an Interesting and Someways Difficult Time
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Sep 10, 2016 |
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I Don't Have a Teacher
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Sep 03, 2016 |
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How's it Going? (more)
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Aug 20, 2016 |
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An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology
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Aug 13, 2016 |
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Coming and Going
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Aug 06, 2016 |
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How's It Going? It's Going!
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Jul 30, 2016 |
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Training the Mind Through Meditation
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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Practicing in the Mud
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Jul 09, 2016 |
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How Big is Your Mind?
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Jul 02, 2016 |
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How to Have a Hard Time
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Jun 18, 2016 |
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An Invitation to Love
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Jun 04, 2016 |
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Memories of Zenkei Blanche Hartman
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May 14, 2016 |
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Is a Baby Still Crying?
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May 07, 2016 |
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Stay Close to the Ground and Clearly Observe
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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The Gift of Doubt
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Apr 23, 2016 |
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3000 Worlds in a Momentary State of Existence
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Apr 09, 2016 |
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Proper Zazen Posture Begins with the Rear End
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Apr 02, 2016 |
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Being in Touch with Current Events...and our True Selves
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Mar 19, 2016 |
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Falling Into the Toilet
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Mar 12, 2016 |
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Rebirth and Reincarnation
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Mar 05, 2016 |
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Impermanence, Clinging, and How We Relate to Our Experiences
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Feb 27, 2016 |
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The Story of the Buddha's Parinirvana
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Feb 20, 2016 |
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Cultivating Buddha's Wisdom and Compassion
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Feb 13, 2016 |
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AZC Annual Meeting - From Tassajara to Austin: The Problem of Rebirth
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Feb 06, 2016 |
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The Miracle of Mind
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Jan 30, 2016 |
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Problems and the Choice they Present
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Jan 23, 2016 |
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Awakening to Who We Really Are
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Jan 16, 2016 |
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The Transformation of Bother
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Jan 09, 2016 |
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The Problems Themselves Are Not The Problem
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Jan 02, 2016 |
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Mirroring the Mind
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Dec 19, 2015 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 6 - In the Midst of It
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 4 - Digging a Hole in the Sky
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 3 - Abiding in the Muddy Water
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 2 - Obstructions and Projections
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin Day 1 - Unmoved and Resolute
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Dec 06, 2015 |
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A Hospitable Space
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Nov 21, 2015 |
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Weekend Retreat: Listening for the Inmost Request
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Nov 14, 2015 |
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What Is Our Inmost Request?
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Nov 07, 2015 |
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It All Rests on the Tip of Your Intention
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Oct 31, 2015 |
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Touching and Turning Away
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Oct 17, 2015 |
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No Pain, No Gain
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Oct 10, 2015 |
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Constant Grieving
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Oct 03, 2015 |
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What the World Needs Now
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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Stepping Back from the Narrative
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Sep 19, 2015 |
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Studying the Self
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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Four Ridiculous Bodhisattva Vows
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Sep 05, 2015 |
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Learning to Stay
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Aug 29, 2015 |
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Roof Tiles and Vending Machines
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Aug 15, 2015 |
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The Heroic Effort of the Bodhisattva
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Aug 08, 2015 |
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Transforming Our Perception of Anger
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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A Discussion of the Sense Gates
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Jul 25, 2015 |
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Koans - Stories of Connection
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Jul 18, 2015 |
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Distress and Eustress
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Jul 11, 2015 |
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What Do We Bow To?
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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How Do We Connect Deeply With Our Experience?
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Jun 06, 2015 |
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Being Tidy
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May 30, 2015 |
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Returning to the Source
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May 23, 2015 |
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Practicing Morality Through Precepts
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May 16, 2015 |
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Only a Buddha, Together With a Buddha
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May 09, 2015 |
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Where Does the Distance Go?
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May 02, 2015 |
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Taking Refuge
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Apr 25, 2015 |
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Being Alive
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Apr 18, 2015 |
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What is Enlightenment?
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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The Koan of the Mountain Seat Ceremony
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Apr 11, 2015 |
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Living by Vow as a Journey and Orientation
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Mar 28, 2015 |
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The Balance Between Darkness and Light In Our Meditation Practice
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Mar 21, 2015 |
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Roles and Rules for What?
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Mar 14, 2015 |
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Activism, Spirituality, and Psychology
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Feb 28, 2015 |
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If This Were My Last Talk...
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Feb 21, 2015 |
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Vow to Meet Every Moment of Your Life
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Feb 14, 2015 |
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The Mahaparinirvana Sutra and the Buddha's Last Few Months
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Feb 07, 2015 |
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Parinirvana and the Buddha's Last Words
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Jan 31, 2015 |
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Sekito Kisen's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage - Part 2
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Jan 24, 2015 |
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Sekito Kisen's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage - Part 1
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Jan 17, 2015 |
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This Being Human is a Guest House
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Jan 10, 2015 |
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The Ex-Spouse in Your Head
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Jan 03, 2015 |
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Zen: A Radical Offering of Stillness and Silence
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Dec 20, 2014 |
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There's Nothing Missing
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Dec 13, 2014 |
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The Story of Buddha's Enlightenment
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Dec 12, 2014 |
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Connecting Through Silence
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Open Hands, Open Hearts
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Dec 10, 2014 |
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Not Thinking and Non-Thinking
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Dec 09, 2014 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: Greet Yourself Arriving at Your Own Door
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Dec 08, 2014 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: The Universal Recommendation for Zazen
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Dec 07, 2014 |
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The Seeker Seeks to End the Suffering Caused by Seeking
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Dec 06, 2014 |
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There Are No Teachers of Zen
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Nov 22, 2014 |
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Weekend Retreat: Dharma Blossoms
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Nov 16, 2014 |
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Weekend Retreat: The Unsurpassable Mind
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Nov 15, 2014 |
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The Perfection of Wisdom
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Nov 08, 2014 |
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Bodhicitta Flows Through Us Like a Radio Broadcast
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Nov 01, 2014 |
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It's Not Your Job to Pretend
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Oct 18, 2014 |
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Dharma Transmission Talk:The Emptiness of the Three Wheels
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Oct 12, 2014 |
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Genjokoan: Zen Practice In Our Ordinary Daily Life
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Oct 04, 2014 |
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Practicing With Difficulty
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Sep 27, 2014 |
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Why Do We Practice? Going Beyond Goal and Aspiration
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Sep 20, 2014 |
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Dogen's Patchrobe Monks
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Sep 13, 2014 |
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Dogen: Don't Be a Jerk
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Sep 10, 2014 |
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Turn the Light Inward
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Sep 06, 2014 |
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Acceptance, Aspiration, and Integration
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Aug 23, 2014 |
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Orientation as Vow
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Aug 16, 2014 |
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Can We Accept Imperfection?
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Aug 09, 2014 |
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Spiritual Friendship: The Whole of the Holy Life
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Aug 02, 2014 |
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Continuous Practice
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Jul 26, 2014 |
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Zazen and the Bodhisattva Precepts: Two Practices That Compliment Each Other
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Jul 19, 2014 |
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Zazen: What Is It That Thus Comes?
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Jul 12, 2014 |
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Dogen's Twining Vines
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Jun 28, 2014 |
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Four Truths About Forgiveness
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Jun 21, 2014 |
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The Human Condition
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Jun 07, 2014 |
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Regaining our Enchantment with the Sacred and Divine
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May 31, 2014 |
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I Will Not Abandon You
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May 17, 2014 |
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No Ego, No Problem
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May 03, 2014 |
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May You Live With the Ease of an Open Heart
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Apr 26, 2014 |
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How Did You (Really) Get Here?
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Apr 12, 2014 |
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"How Do I Cultivate the Way of the Buddhas?"
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Apr 05, 2014 |
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Gwangju Meets His Teacher
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Mar 29, 2014 |
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Zhaozhou's Deeply Secret Mind
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Mar 15, 2014 |
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Being Just So Won't Do
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Mar 09, 2014 |
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The Heart Sutra: A Scripture About Friendship
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Mar 09, 2014 |
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Four Basic Types of Good Friendship
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Mar 08, 2014 |
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Zazen, Perfect Wisdom, and Good Friendship
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Mar 08, 2014 |
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The Bodhisattva Vow
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Mar 01, 2014 |
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Training with Anger
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Feb 22, 2014 |
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The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
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Feb 15, 2014 |
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Kisagotami and the Mustard Seed
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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Open Your Heart to the Sky
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Jan 25, 2014 |
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The Meaning of "Men Mitsu No Kafu"
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Jan 18, 2014 |
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Sadness, Sorrow and Our Open Tender Hearts
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Jan 11, 2014 |
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The Merging of Difference and Sameness
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Jan 04, 2014 |
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Life Is But A Dream
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Dec 21, 2013 |
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What Keeps Us From Dropping Into Our Experience?
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Dec 15, 2013 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: Accepting Indra's Offering
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Dec 14, 2013 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: The Great, Miraculous, Bright, Supreme, Incomparable Mantra
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Dec 13, 2013 |
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A Secret and a Gift
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Dec 12, 2013 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: This Very Mind is Buddha
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Dec 11, 2013 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: The Sanctuary is Built
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Dec 10, 2013 |
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Rohatsu Sesshin: Let's Practice Compassion Together
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Dec 08, 2013 |
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The Wounded Ego
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Dec 07, 2013 |
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The Brain: A Network of Diverse and Well-Intentioned Personalities
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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Find Your Place Where You Are
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Nov 28, 2013 |
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Having Compassion for Our Own Fallability
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Nov 23, 2013 |
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Yun Yan's Great Compassion
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Nov 16, 2013 |
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High Ancestor Eihei's Arousing the Vow Text
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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Don't Waste Time
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Nov 10, 2013 |
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Compassion for Self, Compassion for Others
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Nov 09, 2013 |
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The Emotional Body
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Nov 07, 2013 |
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The Problem With Buddhas
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Oct 31, 2013 |
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Creating A Zen Practice That Works For You
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Oct 26, 2013 |
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How I Came To Seek The Great Way
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Oct 24, 2013 |
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What a Very Heavy Small Lady Can Teach Us About Compassion
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Oct 19, 2013 |
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Awakening Self Compassion
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Oct 05, 2013 |
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The Dharma of Tractors and Squirrels
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Sep 28, 2013 |
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Mountain Meditation
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Sep 14, 2013 |
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A Gift For You
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Sep 07, 2013 |
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Can Meditation be a Catalyst for Compassion?
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Sep 07, 2013 |
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Zen in Seven Words
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Aug 17, 2013 |
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By Ending Grasping You Are Free
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Aug 10, 2013 |
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We Are What We Think
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Aug 03, 2013 |
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Be Perfectly Who You Are
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Jul 27, 2013 |
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With Our Thoughts We Make Our World
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Jul 14, 2013 |
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Living a Real Life
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Jul 06, 2013 |
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The Yoga of Zen
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Jun 29, 2013 |
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The Silence of the Geese (Sound/Silence/No-Sound)
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Jun 20, 2013 |
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Zen Practice and Sexual Desire
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Jun 08, 2013 |
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Are You Interested in the Tea or the Teapot?
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Jun 01, 2013 |
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Living With Our Vulnerability
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May 25, 2013 |
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Babies
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May 11, 2013 |
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Mirror Awareness (part 1)
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Apr 21, 2013 |
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Mirror Awareness (part 2)
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Apr 21, 2013 |
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Four Contemplations
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Apr 20, 2013 |
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Patiently Practicing With Patience
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Apr 13, 2013 |
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Going Beyond Fear and Enjoying the Miracle of Being Alive
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Mar 16, 2013 |
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Trust the Universe Completely
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Mar 02, 2013 |
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The Life of a Bubble Part 2
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Feb 24, 2013 |
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The Life of a Bubble in the Ocean
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Feb 24, 2013 |
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Spirit of Open Inquiry
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Feb 16, 2013 |
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Are You Enlightened?
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Feb 02, 2013 |
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Our Nature is to be Creative
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Jan 26, 2013 |
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Surrender: Intimacy With All Things
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Jan 19, 2013 |
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The Miracle of Awareness
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Jan 12, 2013 |
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The Three Brains
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Jan 05, 2013 |
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Waking From The Dream
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Dec 22, 2012 |
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How to Prepare for Getting Old
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Dec 15, 2012 |
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Independent, and yet Related
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Dec 08, 2012 |
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Sesshin: Traveling with the Buddha
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Dec 07, 2012 |
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The Buddha's Enlightenment
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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Honoring the Three Treasures
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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The Hero's Journey
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Dec 04, 2012 |
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The Spiritual Journey
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Dec 01, 2012 |
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The Eight Worldly Dharmas
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Nov 17, 2012 |
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12 Mindfulness Practices
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Sangha: Why We Practice Together
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Nov 10, 2012 |
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Warm Chocolate Chip Cookie
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Oct 20, 2012 |
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Fall Practice Period: It's About Sangha
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Oct 13, 2012 |
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Ending the War Within Ourselves
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Oct 06, 2012 |
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Presence
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Sep 29, 2012 |
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Let Your Light Shine
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Sep 22, 2012 |
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Can We Trust Happiness?
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Sep 15, 2012 |
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A Few Words About Karma
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Sep 08, 2012 |
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Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
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Sep 01, 2012 |
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Zenvironmental Practice in Arkansas
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Aug 04, 2012 |
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How Do We Experience Stress?
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Jul 28, 2012 |
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Ringing the Mindfulness Bell
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Jul 22, 2012 |
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Think of Not Thinking
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Jul 21, 2012 |
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How We Practice
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Jul 14, 2012 |
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Meditation, Feel the Burn
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Jul 07, 2012 |
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Freedom
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Jun 30, 2012 |
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Ordinary Mind is Buddha
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Jun 23, 2012 |
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Ill Will
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Jun 16, 2012 |
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The Self
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Jun 09, 2012 |
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Introduction to Zen
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May 26, 2012 |
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Zen Koans About Women
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May 19, 2012 |
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Lankavatara Sutra, Part 1
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May 13, 2012 |
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Lankavatara Sutra, Part 2
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May 13, 2012 |
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Step Aside From All Thinking
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Apr 21, 2012 |
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Suffering Comes From Clinging
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Apr 14, 2012 |
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Four Bodhisattva Vows
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Apr 07, 2012 |
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Not Knowing is Most Intimate
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Mar 31, 2012 |
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Know Yourself, Forget Yourself
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Mar 24, 2012 |
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Patience
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Mar 17, 2012 |
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Observe and Accept "Things As It Is" With a Flexible Mind
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Mar 10, 2012 |
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The Fundamentals of Zen Meditation
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Feb 25, 2012 |
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The Bodhisattvas Mundane and Super-Mundane Meditation Practice
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Feb 18, 2012 |
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Buddha's Parinirvana and how Dogen is the founder of Japanese Soto Zen
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Feb 11, 2012 |
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Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
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Feb 04, 2012 |
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A Koan and Three Buddhist Archetypes
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Jan 28, 2012 |
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Musings on the Dharma and Suzuki Roshi
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Jan 21, 2012 |
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What Is This Mess All About?
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Jan 14, 2012 |
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What is Buddha?
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Jan 07, 2012 |
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Dharma Gates to the Sense that All is Well
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Dec 17, 2011 |
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The Many Benefits of Kindness
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Dec 10, 2011 |
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Is Suffering Optional?
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Zen: It's About Liberation, for Everyone
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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The Place of Love in Our Practice
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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Entering the Green Dragon Cave
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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What the Buddha Got
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Dec 04, 2011 |
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How Do We Respond to Fear?
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Dec 03, 2011 |
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Global Warming and the Dharma
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Dec 01, 2011 |
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The Meaning of Freedom
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Nov 05, 2011 |
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Confidence as the Foundation for Environmental Action
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Nov 03, 2011 |
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Liberating Intimacy
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Oct 29, 2011 |
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Speaking Truth About Global Warming
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Oct 27, 2011 |
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How Do We Bear It?
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Oct 24, 2011 |
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What Makes Us Human
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Oct 22, 2011 |
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Birth and Death; The Same or Different?
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Oct 15, 2011 |
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Who Are You?
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Oct 08, 2011 |
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Don't Be Disturbed By Your Mind
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Oct 01, 2011 |
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Relax in Every Moment
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Sep 24, 2011 |
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To Be Just You Is Enough
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Sep 17, 2011 |
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How To Be Happy
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Sep 03, 2011 |
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Trust Life Just As It Is
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Aug 20, 2011 |
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We Are What We Think
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Aug 13, 2011 |
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Zen in Seven Words
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Aug 07, 2011 |
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Zen: Place of Repose and Bliss
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Jul 30, 2011 |
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Sesshin: Day 2 and Three Basic Things of Buddhism
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Jul 23, 2011 |
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Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
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Jul 22, 2011 |
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Suzuki Roshi's Sayings
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Jul 16, 2011 |
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The Eightfold Path
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Jul 09, 2011 |
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Lojong: Practice in Daily Life
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Jul 02, 2011 |
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Two Practical Tools for the Bodhisattva Path
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Jun 30, 2011 |
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Five Views of Enlightenment
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Jun 25, 2011 |
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Not Holding On
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Jun 18, 2011 |
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Samsara and Nirvana
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Jun 11, 2011 |
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Zen Slogans
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May 28, 2011 |
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The Great Way is Not Difficult...
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May 21, 2011 |
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Buddhist Peace Fellowship
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May 14, 2011 |
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Busy or Not Busy?
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May 07, 2011 |
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Confidence
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Apr 23, 2011 |
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Cultivating Self-Compassion
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Apr 09, 2011 |
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Study of Busyness
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Apr 02, 2011 |
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Why Haven't You Enlightened Me Yet?
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Mar 19, 2011 |
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This is Getting Old
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Mar 12, 2011 |
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Seeing Others
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Mar 10, 2011 |