Joy
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers insight into how, even with all the challenges the holiday season might bring, we can experience joy as one of the noble abodes.
Dharma Podcast and Teachings
The Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast
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McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, as well as a
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Teachings Archive
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Impermanence and Uncertainty
/Shinmon Michael Newton asks how we might best respond to the uncertainty that is always present in our lives. In what way does living in sangha provide an opportunity to meet the unexpected and experience what enables the heart to be at peace?
Continuous Practice
/Shinmon Michael Newton suggests that continuous practice is not a burden - it is simply the ever deepening expression of ones life.
Dharma of Fire
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a meditation on fire and explores how the elements give and destroy life even though they have no separate self nature.
The Dharma of Water
/In this talk, Mysohin Kate McCandless suggests that the more we attend to our relationships with the elements, the better we can care for the beings and ecosystems with which our lives interdepend.
Sangha Practice
/Myoshin Kate McCandless offers various practices which can help us maintain and care for our sangha relationships.
What's the Point of Zazen? (What is Zen? Chapters 1-2)
/Shinmon Michael Newton presents the first in a series of seminars based on the lively Q&A book What Is Zen: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer and Susan Moon.
How Much is Enough?
/Myoshin Kate McCandless describes how the eight-fold path and the eight awakenings support us in knowing how much is enough, even as we are steeped in a culture of hyper-materialism.
