Dogen Intensive: Miracles (3/3)

Themes from the Dogen Genzo-e opening retreat continue to be explored in the Sunday morning dharma talk. Can we practice humility and be open to wonder? In what ways do we express how we feel about miracles?

Dogen Intensive: Miracles (2/3 - Opening Retreat)

A call to the co-arising of "be alert!", enlightenment is not a fixed state - it is the expression of our practice. And that is a great miracle.

Dogen Intensive: Miracles (1/3 - Opening Retreat)

Mysoshin Kate McCandless offers a deep dive into what Dogen meant by saying miracles are "the tea and rice of buddha's house".

Everyday Zen (6/9): Suffering

Dai-i Flo Rublee offers the last instalment in our dharma seminar - Chapter 5 from Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen - with the suggestion that we don't have to be engaged in endless struggle with forces external to ourselves.

"No old age and death. No end to old age and death. No suffering. No end to suffering." (the Heart Sutra)

Anger and Forgiveness

Kakuko Kaye Simard offers a talk on anger as a path of transformation.

Everyday Zen (5/9): Ideals

Jikai Vicki Turay continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck’s  Everyday Zen asking the question: Do our ideals serve us or confuse us? Are they guiding principles or subtle forms of attachement?

What is Death with Dignity?

In honour of the Buddha's parinirvana, Shinmon Michael Newton asks: how does realizing our self-nature free us from birth and death? 

Everyday Zen (4/9): Relationships

"Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship." (Charlotte Joko Beck)

Shinmon Michael Newton continues our dharma seminar, exploring how we can perceive and navigate relationships with mindfulness and presence.