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2023-03-07 Effort and Aimlessness
Effort is an essential element in practice. It is one of the strands of the 8-fold Path, one of the 6 Paramitas, and one of the 7 factors of enlightenment. What is right effort, and does it relate to Aimlessness?Sources:Various
2023-02-21 Working with change and loss
As extreme weather events grow more frequent and it becomes more apparent that we have "entered a period of consequences" in regard to the climate crisis, how do we work with change, loss and devastation in ways that are healthy and helpful?
2023-01-17 A better Way to Live Alone 4
Working with worries about the future and forgiving wrongs of the past.Text used: Our Appointment with Life: The Buddha's Teaching on Living in the Present, by Thich Nhat Hanh (translated by Annabel Laity), Parallax Press 1990.
23-01-12 Koans
Koans, their purpose, how they work, and why the can be called vile.Automated transcripthttps://otter.ai/u/AM0pX6W0btUp3p2GnIiRfBdid9M?utm_source=copy_url
2023-01-11 The Life and Teachings of Master Bankei 5 (fragment)
fragment onlyText used: The Unborn; The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Waddell, North Point Press 1984.Automated transcripthttps://otter.ai/u/z0rPKjSyJe_Fk_80L4sT0uYxmsQ?utm_source=copy_ur
2023-01-10 The Life and Teachings of Master Bankei 4
Sickness and pain are inevitable but suffering is notText used: The Unborn; The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Waddell, North Point Press 1984.
2023-01-09 The Life and Teachings of Master Bankei 3
Transforming the unborn Buddha Mind into the poisons.Text used: The Unborn; The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Waddell, North Point Press 1984.
2023-01-08 The Life and Teachings of Master Bankei 2
Meeting his master, deeper insights and beginning to teach.Text used: The Unborn; The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Waddell, North Point Press 1984.
2023-01-07 The Life and Teachings of Master Bankei 1
Childhood and early struggles to understand "bright virtue".Text used: The Unborn; The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Waddell, North Point Press 1984.
2022-11-27 A Better Way to Live Alone 2
Roshi explores what it means to "live alone"-- not rejecting the world or society, but not attaching to what we experience either.Source(s): Our Appointment with Life: The Buddha's Teaching on Living in the Present, by Thich Nhat Hanh (translated by Ann