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.
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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?
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)
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?
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.
Everyday Zen (3/9): Feelings
/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’?
Everyday Zen (2/9): What is Practice?
/Myosen River Shannon continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen and explores two questions Beck poses: "What is practice?" and "What is not practice?"
Everyday Zen (1/9): Love and Work
/Kakuko Kaye Simard begins a new dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen: Love and Work.
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