Everyday Zen (8/9): Boundaries

Using Joko Beck's Everyday Zen as a springboard, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks us to consider what kind of boundaries we are attached to, and which of the worldly winds blows us off our path.

Everyday Zen (7/9): Choices

Nin-en Susan Elbe picks up the thread of Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen by offering a talk on Chapter 8. 

How do the paramitas help us make difficult choices?

Not One Not Two: Art and Practice – a ZED talk by Onsen Kerr

ZED Talks (Zen Engaged Dharma) invite sangha members to tell their stories about how Zen practice manifests in their life.

Zen priest Onsen Kerr from Middle Way Sangha in Victoria discusses how her art practice is one of realization and disruption, and explores the question of how Art and Zen co-exist – and for whose benefit? 

See Onsen's work (as described in the talk) at:
https://www.colleenkerrartworks.ca/newwork

Dogen Intensive: Moon (3/3)

To end our month long Genzo-e, Shinmon Michael Newton underlines that the moon is a symbol for awakening to non-dual reality and to impermanence.

Dogen Intensive: Moon (2/3 - Closing Retreat)

In this talk, Shinmon Michael Newton encourages us to not reject the incomplete and to not hang on to what is complete, but rather just to practice; to actualize the complete moon that is not yet full. 

Dogen Intensive: Moon (1/3 - Closing Retreat)

Shinmon Michael Newton offers insights into the moon as symbol for the formless dharma body. What preconceived notions do you have about zen practice and your life? Can you let go of that mode of thinking?

Dogen Intensive: Dreams (4/4)

In the last dharma talk on Dogen's Dream within a Dream,  Myoshin Kate McCandless shares a dialogue between Ziyong, a 17th century Chinese nun at the end of her life, and her disciple Jingxuan.  How do we express the dream within the dream in times of great loss?

Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (3/3)

In this dharma talk, Shinmon Michael Newton encourages us to “hold up the sun and moon on the top of a staff” and asks what we offer to this troubled and confused world?