Dialogues in a Dream
/“Knowing is arrogance, not knowing is stupidity.”
For the third talk in our dharma seminar on Musō Soseki's writing, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: What is your relationship to reading Zen texts and commentaries?
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Living with Ease in a Crazy World (Training in Compassion - 8/)
/Daikan picks up the exploration of Norman Fischer’s book Training in Compassion. He notes that over time, we might notice that meditating changes our sense of life, and that we may be developing gentleness and patience towards self and others.
The Discipline of Relationships (Training in Compassion - 7/)
/Shinmon Michael Newton brings the Wednesday evening Dharma seminar on Norman Fischer's Training in Compassion to a close.
When Everything is the Path, Nothing is Left Out (Training in Compassion - 6/)
/Hotei Denis asks: given state of world and the seriousness of the human condition, how do we deepen our practice? When the only point is the point, how do we walk the walk?
Make Practice Your Whole Life (Training in Compassion - 5/)
/Jikai Vicki Turay continues our Dharma seminar asking: what strengths do you have when it comes to making practice your whole life? What challenges? How consciously and caringly can you breathe?
Transform Bad Circumstances into the Path (Training in Compassion - 4/)
/Joko Claire Talbot continues the Wednesday evening Dharma seminar on Norman Fischer's Training in Compassion.
In what ways do you appreciate your lunacy and pray for help?
Relative Compassion (Training in Compassion - 3/)
/Our dharma seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion continues. Dai-i Flo Rublee offers that relative compassion helps ground the broad view of life’s empty nature in heart-connection and engagement.
Absolute Compassion (Training in Compassion - 2/)
/Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma Seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion.
How does caring for ourselves help us care for others? How do we not hide behind the dream-like quality of the absolute?
