Episodes
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As we come to the end of our 90-day intensive period we enter a liminal place that can feel like a birth.
In surrendering completely to what is happening within us -- in the supportive environment of our practice -- we emerge both exhausted and renewed, baby and mother both. This is the koan of transformation, the tail of the water buffalo that remains after the body passes through the window.
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Zen practitioners celebrate the Buddha's Awakening during Rohatsu. While much myth encrusts the historical record of this event, we can follow the Buddha's model of deep investigation through the meditative mind. Many practitioners have felt this inner emergence for themselves, discovering a ground of being that is both personal and impersonal, undeniable and inexpressible.
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Missing episodes?
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We are never really outside of our sensory experience or our life story. From them, we create sense and meaning. With conscious Attention and Intention, we shift from a background/foreground to a single ground, creating the field where subject and object dissolve. Then karma and dharma are seen as one.
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Calm and steady, linking together all the elements of our lives - A talk by Geoff Shōun
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Anger is wisdom energy that has the power to heal. Aggression is when that energy is enlisted by the ego. Our holding capacity for our moment-to-moment sensory experience is what allows us to maintain a connection with the elemental wisdom dimension without a hidden agenda. Talk by Sam Sokyo Randall
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Mysterious and vast, the One Body extends through space and time. Its healing potential is actualized through the mysterious and vast power of intention, or vow. Intentions seeded in the past bear fruit now as intentions seeded now will bear fruit in the future. Meanwhile, we are in direct communication with our past and future selves right now. Who can say where it all began?
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Anger carries a profound transformative potential, but only if it is felt. If we cut ourselves off from feeling, our anger will ultimately burn down whatever is keeping us from feeling.
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We are fooled by others when we look outside for our own self-understanding. When we look inside, we find ourselves grounded as the functioning of awareness itself. “Absolute Subjectivity”. What name does that go by?
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Mark Eckhardt shares the dharma of raising a temple in the very place where we stand. For a Black man in America, that place can be a hell.
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When we put on the kesa, we take refuge in teachings that give our lives support, protection and meaning. The simple act subtly affects ourselves and others.
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In times of complexity and chaos, what is the sacred work you are called to do? What does that type of inspiration look like? When the world seems overwhelming, it is our minds -- not the world -- that is overwhelmed.
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Sangha Q&A with Gyodo Sensei on the three treasures of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
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Our inner and outer worlds are permeated with disturbances. To be undisturbed outside means seeing the True Nature of phenomena without adding anything extra.To be undisturbed inside means seeing the true nature of oneself without sprouting delusions.
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Skillful means invite us to consider time, place, person and degree in all we do and say. Enlightening beings may rescue you from a burning house or set fire to your house to wake you up, depending. What will you do next?
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Master Dogen asked Master Lu why he worked so hard in the hot sun instead of asking his assistants to help. Lu responded, “If I do not do it now, when else can I do it?" We misunderstand if we believe Master Lu was caught up in our modern neurosis of time poverty. Instead, he affirms that Now is always the time to do our work.
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What happens when the "stuffing comes out"? Sam Sokyo Randall shares how falling apart together can be transformative for us as individuals and sanghas.
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Master Hyakujo said, "a day without work is a day without food." When asked who he did the work for, he said, "There is one who needs it, and that one has no hands." In our most purposeful work, we are the hand that serves something greater.
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