Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (11)
/Shinmon Michael Newton explores how the skillful use of imagination can help us open to our Buddha nature.
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Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (10)
/Daikan John Green offers images and metaphors for the infinite interconnections and feedback loops of Indra’s Net, such as quantum entanglement or the root structure of a redwood tree. How can we practice with these infinities when we are only finite humans?
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (9)
/How do we take in and then process the traumas of war, have our hearts broken over and over again, while abiding in the two truths, of relative and absolute? Myoshin Kate McCandless explores practices of patience and equanimity in the face of conflict offered in the Avatamsaka Sutra.
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (8)
/Daikan John Green helps peel back layers from Book 16 and 20 of the Avatamsaka Sutra, revealing that Mind is like an artist able to paint the world…
"If people want to really know/ All Buddhas of all time,/ They should contemplate the nature of the cosmos:/ All is but mental construction". (Thomas Cleary, translation of chapter 20)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (7)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless continues the exploration of Sudhana's story as he encounters a series of nine night goddesses. How can we open to, and be with, the fruitful and generative darkness?
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (6)
/Shinmon Michael Newton explores Chapter 17 of the Avatamsaka Sutra, which focuses on boddhicitta - the way-seeking mind that is awakening for the benefit of all. How do we relax the tight self-centered grip of our usual way of being, to step into the teachings of ease?
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (5)
/Daikan John Green gives a talk about the ten dedications of merit or ten transfers of merit and offers the practice of rapid sutra recitation.
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (4)
/Daikan John Green, our Practice Period shuso, presents two questions posed by the bodhisattva Manjushri, regarding how to bring the teachings of Indra's Net into everyday life.
