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 Life and Relationships (What is Zen? Chapter 12)

Jikai Vicki Turay explores how, though much of practice appears to be solitary, zen is primarily based in relationships.

“Formal Zen practice that of meditation, teachings, rituals serve as a training ground.  Those activities support and encourage the actual practice - which happens all the time, in your own life, in your every encounter with others, in your heart and mind.” (Zoketsu Norman Fischer)

The Journey to Lay Entrustment and Beyond

Jikai Vicki Turay shares anecdotes and insights from her path and practice leading to lay entrustment.

Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 1)

Mayne Island resident and longtime MRZC practice leader Jikai Vicki Turay continues our exploration of Opening the Hand of Thought by Japanese Zen teacher Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. She dives into Uchiyama's discourse on the cultivation of sweet persimmons, how Buddhist practice can manifest and flourish in the West, and how the practice of zazen helps us awaken to our universal nature.

The Leap of Faith

Jikai Vicki Turay, longtime MRZC practitioner and resident of Mayne Island, BC, delivers a dharma talk on the tender balance between fear and love, and between doubt and faith—and how we can cultivate the confidence to step off the top of a 100-foot pole.