Soto Zen Practice in Vancouver, BC
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Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the practice of restraint using the Kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum (Hebrew: contraction), and asks: can we understand restraint not as something externally imposed and enforced by fear, but internally chosen and based on care and concern?
Tosho Megan Adam is a writer, weaver, and fiddle-player on Gabriola Island, BC (Snuneymuxw territory). In this ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talk, Megan speaks on the importance of artistic practice in our lives and how Zen practice can encourage and support us in liberating our creative selves. Find Megan's writing at www.comfortfortheapocalypse.com and her creative work at instagram.com/megan.elizabeth.adam
Guiding Teacher Shinmon Michael Newton introduces The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself by Belgian author Bieke Vandekerckhove. He speaks of how we can find freedom in stillness, and in what Dogen refers to as 'the backward step' — the deep and healing flow of silence.
The Beat Poets: Part 5 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
In this special Earth Day talk, Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the continuous flux between our bodies and the planet with a meditation on the four elements—and questions whether humus and humankind are really so different.
Chinese and Japanese Women Poets: Part 4 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
Haiku: Part 3 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
MRZC Priest Kakuko Kaye Simard speaks on how our relationships with dogs, cats, dishes, and houseplants can cultivate our boddhisattva practices of lovingkindness, the paramitas (and their imposters/near enemies), and empathetic joy.
MRZC's Soto Zen practice emphasizes being fully awake to our own moment-to-moment experience, from our meditation cushion to every aspect of our everyday life. Join us!
How can we look deeply into the roots of our shared delusions and together align with an ethic of mutual care and respect?
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