Everyday Zen (3/9): Feelings

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Daikan John Green continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen, in which Joko describes how sitting can be like opening a Pandora’s box — which looks still and pretty on the outside, but can release a swarm of intense feelings. How do we experience these feelings as they arise, without being caught by ‘emotion-thought’?

Working With Anger: Practising Patience (2/2)

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In this second talk on working with anger, MRZC Priest Dai-i Flo Rublee uses Shantideva's writings in The Way of the Bodhisattva—along with Pema Chödrön's masterful analysis—to explore specific situations for practising patience in the midst of overwhelming emotion. She also reminds us of the value of our troublemakers: those people or situations that challenge us and give us opportunities for practice.

Working With Anger: Avoiding the Hook (1/2)

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In this first of two talks based on Shantideva's writings in the classic text The Way of the Bodhisattva, MRZC Priest Dai-i Flo Rublee unpacks how anger functions as a hindrance to happiness and affects all around us. She goes on to explain how, by cultivating patience, we can learn to sit through the ‘pain of detox’ and avoid biting anger's hook.

Zen, Karate, and Kiai - Zed Talk with Michael Hare

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Michael Hare describes how his different communities of practice weave together like the threads of a martial arts belt.

ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talks are short talks by sangha members about how they take their practice into the world, through work, art, activism, service, family life, etc. and how their practice supports them in doing so.