Anger and Forgiveness
/Kakuko Kaye Simard offers a talk on anger as a path of transformation.
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Everyday Zen (1): 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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Tales from the San Deigo Zen Center
Dale S Wright - Humanizing the Image of a Zen Master: Maezumi Roshi
Awakening (What is Zen? Chapter 4)
/Kakuko Kaye Simard explores Sue Moon and Zoketsu Norman Fischer's understanding of the promises and fruits of awakening.
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 4)
/Continuing the dharma seminar on Kosho Uchiyama's writing, Kakuko Kaye Simard describes intensive practice, shikantaza, and how sesshin is an opportunity to sink firmly and nobly into our bones.
Lovingkindness and Doggie Dharma
/MRZC Priest Kakuko Kaye Simard speaks on how our relationships with dogs, cats, dishes, and houseplants can cultivate our boddhisattva practices of lovingkindness, the paramitas (and their imposters/near enemies), and empathetic joy.
Heart Sutra 3
/The third of three Sunday dharma talks on the core Zen text, the Heart Sutra, by Mountain Rain sangha leaders.
Read MoreReaching for the Pillow: Zazen and Compassion→
/Yunyan asked Daowu, “‘How does the Bodhisattva Guanyin use those many hands and eyes?”’
Daowu answered, “‘It is like someone in the middle of the night reaching behind her head for the pillow.”’
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