Ordinary Mind Zen School
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The Ordinary Mind Zen School Sydney podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Geoff Dawson.
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Sesshin Day 2: Integrating Emotion in Practice
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May 17, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 1: The Habituated Mind
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May 17, 2026 |
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“Ordinary Wonder!”
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May 17, 2026 |
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“The Satori Disaster”
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May 17, 2026 |
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The Practice of Wabi Sabi in Everyday Life
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May 06, 2026 |
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Resistance in Practice
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 4: The Priest and the Fox
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 5: Wu Tsu’s Buffalo Passes Through the Window
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 3: Joshu’s Dog. Working with the first Koan Mu
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Seizei Alone and Destitute.
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 1: Zen and the Art of Living
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The Lamp and the Light
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Strong Back-Soft Front
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Forgetting the Self
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Intention and No Intention in Practice
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Core Beliefs
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Mountains and Rivers and the Death of a friend
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Hunters and Gathers. Our Pre Taoist and Buddhist Past
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Thich Nhat Hahn’s revision of the Heart Sutra
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Responding to life as it is happening
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Like a White Bird in the Snow
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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The Non Doing of Love
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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The Tao of Dealing with Conflict
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Wu Wei - Non Doing
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Taoist Roots of Zen 2
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Taoist Roots of Zen
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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The ABC of Core Beliefs
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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No Fixed Views
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Gender Equality, Gender Harmony
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Finding peace in disillusionment
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Working with Cricticism
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Zazen is an act of sincerity
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Sesshin Day 2: The Play of Opposites
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 1: Zen and the Transformation of Character
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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An Enlightened Person Falls Down a Well
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 5: Transitions
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 4: The Intimacy of Eating
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 3: Confessions of a Foolish Mind
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Let Go of Everything!
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 1: Ancestry and Gratitude
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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True Words
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The process of forming right intention
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The way of the bodhisattva
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Single focus and Expansiveness
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Life Koans
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Zen Simplicity. Intellectual Complexity
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Meeting others with Openness
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Death and Nuclear War
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Having goals but not attaching to outcomes
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The Identity of Insight and Practice
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Intention and Vow
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Transformation of Character
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Praise and Beyond Praise
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Wave and Ocean
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Survival and Flourishing
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Working with the Precepts in Practice
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Working with Emotions in Practice
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Intimacy with all Things
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May 29, 2025 |
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The place where there is no Right or Wrong
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May 25, 2025 |
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10,000 mistakes!
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May 20, 2025 |
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Psychedelics, No Self, and Zen.
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May 18, 2025 |
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Aimlessness
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Karma. Habit Pattern and Meditation.
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - The Wonderful Emptiness of Everyday Life.
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - Love in Zen
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Transform Bad Circumstances into the Path
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - No Fixed Self
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Stuckness and Flow
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Life of Soen Roshi
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Bearing Witness
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Neutrality and Indifference
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Resilience, Flow, Big Picture.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Curative Fantasies
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Working with Emotions in Meditation and Everyday Life
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Unconditional and Conditional Worthiness
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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The Myth of Normal. A critique.
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Life is not a problem
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Zen and consumer culture
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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The Authentic Self
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Pleasure and Contentment
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Healing not Curing
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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The Wisdom Of The Unconscious
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Zazen - Sitting Meditation
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Myth of Certainty
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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This Very Place Is The Lotus Land
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Being grateful for everything that comes our way
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Bearing Witness
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The Storytelling Mind
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Ten Zen Precepts. Guidelines for Cultivating Moral Intelligence
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Samadhi and the Awakened Life
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Don’t meditate. Just sit!
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - Core Beliefs
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - The Fully Enlightened Person Falls down a Well
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Coming to our Senses
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Judgement and Assessment
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Birth, Death and the Space Inbetween
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Clarifying the confusion of thinking and experience
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Connection is always here
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Bearing Witness and Stopping Harm
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Middle Way and Creative Tension
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Muddy Water
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Discipline and Spontaneity
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Manifesting Simplicity
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Being just this moment compassions way
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Each moment life as it is, the only teacher
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Holding to Self Centred Thoughts exactly the dream
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Caught in the Self Centred Dream
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Banging Door
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Working with Confused states of Mind
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Buddhist Ethics
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Oneness and Differentiation in Relationships
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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The Middle Way
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Being Walking
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Practicing with Aging
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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At Home in the Muddy Water
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Altered States of Consciousness?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Zen Peacemakers
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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A Zen Perspective on Karma
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May 28, 2024 |
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“Educating the Heart”
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May 26, 2024 |
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The Absolute Nature of Emotions
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May 21, 2024 |
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No Gain and Maturing in the Practice
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May 15, 2024 |
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Humiliation and Violence
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Inner War
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Friendship
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - Three Teachings for Everyday Life
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 4: Death Meditations
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 3: The Virtuous Narcissist
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 2: The Scribbly Gum Sutra
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Sesshin Day 1 The Awakened Life
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Equanimity in Relationships
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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No Fixed Identity
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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There is nothing fundamentally wrong with us
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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On Having No Worth
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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The Buddhist and the Ethicist. A book review.
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Core Belief
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Grievance and Gratitude
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Just Falling
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Breathing - the rhythm of life
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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The Gentle Art of Pausing
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Self-Centred to Life-Centred
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Transformation of Energy
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Middle Way
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Dharma of Contradictions
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Zen is Prosocial
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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No hope
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The Parting Glass
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Kindness
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 5: The Discipline of No Gain
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 4: Kicking Over The Water Bottle
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 3: The Hardest Teaching
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Balancing equanimity and compassion in relationships
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 1: A Red Dawn and the Splash of Raindrops
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Monkey Mind and ADHD
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 3: On Not Taking Oneself So Seriously
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Beginners Mind and the Heart Sutra
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 1: The Stress Response. Relevance To Zen Training And Human Morality
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Equanimity
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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The Heart Sutra and Beginners Mind
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Can you do too much therapy? A zen perspective
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Ignorance
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Grasping
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Aversion
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Competition and Cooperation
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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The Stress Response
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Neuroethics and Zen
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Closure Acceptance and Letting Go
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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The Virtue of Being Useless
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Dilemmas
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Practicing with Anxiety
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Concentration and Mindfulness
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Ignorance and Not Knowing
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Attachment, Detachment, Non attachment
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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No Fixed States of Mind
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Rinzai Zen/Soto Zen
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Power of Thought Labelling
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May 31, 2023 |
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Reflection and Presence 3
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May 28, 2023 |
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Trusting Nature. The Call of the Reed Warbler
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May 16, 2023 |
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Persecutor Victim Rescuer
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May 10, 2023 |
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Dissatisfaction and Technology Addiction
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May 03, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - Giving and Receiving
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - On not taking oneself so seriously
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Courage and Fear
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Looking into our Dark Side
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Reflections on Death
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The dark side of virtue signalling
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Think neither good nor evil
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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When life can no longer humiliate you.
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Melting the frozen block of emotion thought
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Hakuin
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Psychedelics and Zen
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Breathing Our Way Into The Unknown
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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The Train Journey of Forgiveness
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Tasting the Bitter and the Sweet
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Strong back. Soft front.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Zen and our emotional lives
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Practising with disappointment
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Razzle dazzle and serenity
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Not Harbouring Anger
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Not Criticising the Faults of Others but Speaking with Loving Kindness
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Zen and Tea
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - Dwelling Nowhere Let the Heart come Forth
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - The Paradoxical Nature of Suffering
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Bells and Blowflies
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Temperament and Transformation
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - The Three-Legged Stool of Zen
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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The Freedom of Form
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Feeding Emotion - Thoughts
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Samadhi Power
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - “Gouging a wound in healthy flesh”
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Sacredness
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Zen Mudras
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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“The sacred forms of the tathagatha’s never failing essence“
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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No Universal No Personal
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Moral Philosophy and Zen
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Spiritual Bypassing
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Black Coal/Brown Coal
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Empty Canoe
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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The Virtue of Solitude
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Dying On The Cushion
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Cutting Off Old Grievances
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Surface Calmness and Deep Serenity
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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A Tangled Knotty Mess
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Building Moral Intelligence
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Precepts and Psychology
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Right and Wrong
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Wise Ethics
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Faith in Mind - Openness to Life
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The Practice of Zen in a Toxic Culture
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Mindfulness and Precepts
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Emotions and Precepts
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Like a Buffalo Passing Through a Latticed Window
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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An Appropriate Response!
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Working with the Precepts
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Zen, Philosophy, and the Nature of Life
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Zen and Philosophy
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Other Validation, Self Validation and Life Validation
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Reflection and Presence 2
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May 22, 2022 |
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Buddhism and Wholistic Health
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May 11, 2022 |
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Poem and Precept Group
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May 04, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 5: Zen and the Moral Spirit
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 4: Throwing a Pebble in the Pond
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 3: Zen and the Creative Spirit
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Tototsu’s Three Barriers
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Sesshin Day 1: Non - Stop Flow
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Self and Other
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Oryoki for Life
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Personal Responsibility and Non Judgementalism
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Words, Words, Words
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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World Suffering, Compassion and Equanimity
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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A Day In The Life Of A Tree
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Paradox
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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What is Koan Practice
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The Art Of Feeling
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Organic Intelligence
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Discernment and Karma
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Ordinary Mind is the Way
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Cricket Chirps in a Forgetful Way
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Remembering Thich Nhat Hahn
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Transitions
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Aspiration and Expectation Revisited
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Identifying with Thoughts and Feelings
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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The Art of Listening
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Don't Be Deceived By Others
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Meditation, Assertiveness and the Bodhisattva Way
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Bypassing, Fixating and Numbing Out
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Halloween and a Dead Crow
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Rinzai’s Person of No Rank
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Practicing With The Raw Energy Of Emotion
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Equanimity Predictability and the Unexpected
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Reflection and Presence
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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The Identity Project
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - Breaking the addiction to the inner narrative
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Living in the spacious mind
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Approaching relationships with a beginners mind
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Experiencing life fully
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Meditation and the Default Mode of Consciousness
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The Observer - Participant
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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The mango is not stuck on the mango tree
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Committment To A Practice
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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The Practice of Stillness
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Zen Temple Lockdown
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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The Mirror Mind
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Arousing the Desire for Practice
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Gravitas, Charisma And The Old Tea Lady
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Covid Lockdown As Dharma Practice
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Ordinary Wonder - Book Review
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Dogen’s Zen
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Waking Up To Indifference
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Dogen Mystical Realist
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Zen training and music
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Letting go of the struggle
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Zen is Humanistic
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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“Only I alone and sacred”
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Kicking over the water bottle
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Being and Doing
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May 30, 2021 |
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Be Here Now (revisited)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Pointlessness
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May 22, 2021 |
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I Am Your Pain
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May 12, 2021 |
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Connections
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May 05, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 5: The Dharma Of Breathing
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May 01, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 4: Frozen Views (of Others)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 3: Being an Open Spacious Response in Relationships
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 2: Don't Just Observe Impermanence, Be Impermanence
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Sesshin Day 1: Gratitude
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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The Journey of Forgiveness
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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“An Open Spacious Response To Life.”
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Self Righteousness
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Alone and Destitute
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Anger
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The Pain of Being Me
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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The Non Judgemental and Discerning Mind
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Acknowledgement of Country
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Exaggerated Mannerisms
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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No Story, No View, No Belief
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Being Attached To Being Non - Attached
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Rohatsu - What Is Enlightenment?
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Right Intention
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Two Kinds of Intelligence
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Giving And Receiving
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Hooked!
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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“Is Everything Suffering?”
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - The Transformation Of Character
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - The Practice Of Patience
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Old Country Flowing
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Celebrating the Senses
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Moral suffering
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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"Mr Duffy Lived A Short Distance From His Body"
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Envy
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - From No Self To Social Self
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - Self Absorption And Flow
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Tokusan Carries His Bowls
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - The Stubborn "I"
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Pouring Your Heart Into Each Moment
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Tokusan and the Old Tea Lady
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Neither Wind Nor Flag
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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The Delusion of the Ideal Self
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The True Nature Of Suffering
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Zen is Relational
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Kindness Compassion Joy and Equanimity
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Joy
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Resistance, Suchness and The Heart Sutra
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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"Exalted And Lowly Is Just A Matter Of Words"
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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The Oak Tree In The Courtyard
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Joshu Examines The Two Hermits
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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A Non Attained Buddha
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Tototsu’s Three Barriers
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Stories
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Not Knowing Revisited
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Grasping Mind - Don’t Know Mind
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Embodied And Disembodied Buddhism
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Failing Forward
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Clap - Ding!
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May 27, 2020 |
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Less Of Me, More Of The World
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May 24, 2020 |
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Existential Boredom
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May 19, 2020 |
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Monkey Mind
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May 12, 2020 |
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Samadhi Power
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May 05, 2020 |
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Being Nobody Going Nowhere
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Practicing with the Past in the Present
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Serene in the Cycle
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Three Chords and the Truth
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Love and Solitude in the Time of Corona
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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The Coronavirus Retreat
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Taking False Refuge
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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A Zen Life is an Intimate Life
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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The Wisdom of Nonsense
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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No God, No Governor, No Ego
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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The Third Eye
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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No High or Low
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Coming Home
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Bushfires
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Frustration is Optional
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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The Spark that Lit the Dharma Candle
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Attachment Detachment and Non attachment
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Empathic Attunement
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Pathological Self Reflection
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Being Awake and Being Woke
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 3 The "Fifth" Noble Abode - Nov 2019
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 2 To Mature in Buddha's Wisdom - Nov 2019
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 1 The Last Troubadour - Nov 2019
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Nansen Kills The Cat 2
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Absorptions and Awakenings
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Global Warming
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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“Holding And Rejecting, These Are But Skilfull Lies"
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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A thousand mistakes. Ten thousand mistakes!
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 5 The Courage to Practice the Precepts
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 4 Self Confidence and No-Self Confidence
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 3 Discovering The Obvious
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 2 The Flow of Everyday Life
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 1 Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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At Home in Solitude
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Collective Delusions
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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What is Consciousness
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Ten Thousand Mistakes!
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Emotions and Precepts
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Practicing with Injustice
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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A Simple Piece of String
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Playful Conflict
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Dropping Below The Surface
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Meeting the Random
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Sincerity Sincerity Sincerity
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Connectedness and Community
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Buddhanature is Organic
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Not clinging to feelings and other states of mind
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Self Compassion and Self Honesty
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Untangling the Ego Knot
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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The Heron's Legs
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is.
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Entering the Market Place with Bliss Bestowing Hands
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Unravelling
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May 29, 2019 |
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Character in Zen
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May 22, 2019 |
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Embodiment
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May 15, 2019 |
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The Pain Of Fantasy
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May 12, 2019 |
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Playful Intimacy
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May 05, 2019 |
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Coming Home
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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What is Wisdom?
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Observing Mind
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - The Dharma Of Sisyphus
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - Listening With The Heart
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Don't Try To Figure Others Out
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Broken Spider Webs
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - Stoicism And Epicureanism
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Autumn Winds
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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Are Mindfulness Apps Really Necessary?
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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External Mindfulness
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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From Wanting and Taking to Giving and Receiving
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Stuckness and the Delusion of Escape
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Silence Thinking and Right Speech
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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The Three Doors To Liberation
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Don't Expect Applause
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Understanding Unpleasant Experiences On The Path
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Purposeless Awareness
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Going Fishing With A Straight Hook
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Back To Basics 2019
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Are We Fundamentally Good?
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Resistance To Life As It Is
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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The Art Of Golden Repair
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Zen And Conflict Resolution
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Opposing And Taking
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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Connection Disconnection Connection
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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November Sesshin Day 3 - Golden Repair
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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November Sesshin Day 2 - Cultivating Ethical Intelligence
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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November Sesshin Day 1 - A Peck On The Cheek
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Glide And Smile
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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The Altruistic Instinct
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Just This!
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Just This Problem!
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Sesshin Day 5 - Zen Ethics
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Sesshin Day 4 - Meditation Is The Experience Of Being Everything And Nothing
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Sesshin Day 3 - "Flows Like A River, Reflects Like A Mirror, Responds Like An Echo"
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Sesshin Day 2 - Like A Leaf In The Wind
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Sesshin Day 1 - The Development Of The Ego And It's Ongoing Self Deceptions
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Drive All Blame Into One
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Don't Get Stuck On Peace
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Appreciation And Possession
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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The Empathic Witness
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Cleaning House And Mind
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Sangha. The Practice Of Mindful Community
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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No High Or Low
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Introversion Extroversion And Zen
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Engaging In Sexual Intimacy Respectfully And With An Open Heart
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Heartbreak
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Taking Up The Way Of Letting Go Of Anger
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Taking Up The Way Of Supporting Life
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Taking Up The Way Of Only Taking What Is Freely Given
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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I Take Up The Way Of Speaking Truthfully
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Taking Up The Way Of Treating Others With Openness And Possibility
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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The Power Of Vow
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Zen Is Psychology. Psychology Is Zen
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Hailstones!
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May 30, 2018 |
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What Are We Searching For?
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May 27, 2018 |
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Mindfulness And Flow In Zen Practice
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May 23, 2018 |
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Sitting Alone At Daiyu Peak
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May 16, 2018 |
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The Treasure Chest Of Precious Things
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May 09, 2018 |
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Stepping From The Top Of A Hundred Foot Pole
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May 01, 2018 |
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"A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird"
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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A Guide For Travellers On The Domestic Way
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Self Compassion And Self Assertion
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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"Zen Hasn't Improved My Bowling" Sesshin Day 5
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Assessing How You Are Going In Practice Sesshin Day 4
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Existential Zen Sesshin Day 3
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Returning To The Natural Way Sesshin Day 2
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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Form Is Emptiness. Emptiness Is Form Sesshin Day 1
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Gratitude
|
Apr 04, 2018 |
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How to Help By Not Helping
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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A Jewish Koan
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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Resentment And Revenge
|
Mar 22, 2018 |
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Taking Responsibility For Your Life
|
Mar 14, 2018 |
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Self Centred And Life Centred Emotions
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Dharma Talks Are Meaningless
|
Mar 01, 2018 |
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The Life Centred Individual
|
Feb 26, 2018 |
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Alone And Together
|
Feb 20, 2018 |
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The Illusory Cigarette Box Of Samsara
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Order And Chaos
|
Feb 09, 2018 |
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Caught In The Self Centred Dream Of Spiritual Identity
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Arrogance and Timidity
|
Jan 24, 2018 |
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What Is Taking Refuge In The Three Treasures?
|
Jan 20, 2018 |
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When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It
|
Dec 13, 2017 |
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How To Melt The Frozen Block Of Emotion Thought
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Dec 06, 2017 |