Meandering to the Centre of Every Place: Practices for Pilgrimage

Myoshin Kate McCandless explores what it is about a pilgrimage that makes it particularly layered and vivid, and offers practices for pilgrimage.

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Finding Our True Home

Back from a recent trip to Europe, MRZC priest and teacher and Sunshine Coast resident Dai-i Flo Rublee reflects on homecoming, home-leaving, and how we are all just walking each other home.

Mother of all Buddhas

In what way does our innate ability to nurture reflect the perfection of wisdom? Dharma Talk with Shinmon Michael Newton. 

Practicing Restraint to Make Room for the World

Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the practice of restraint using the Kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum (Hebrew: contraction), and asks: can we understand restraint not as something externally imposed and enforced by fear, but internally chosen and based on care and concern?

The Taste of Silence

Guiding Teacher Shinmon Michael Newton introduces The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself by Belgian author Bieke Vandekerckhove. He speaks of how we can find freedom in stillness, and in what Dogen refers to as 'the backward step' — the deep and healing flow of silence.

Finding Our Roots in the Soil

In this special Earth Day talk, Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the continuous flux between our bodies and the planet with a meditation on the four elements—and questions whether humus and humankind are really so different.

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. 

Renewal, Rebirth, and Redemption

Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless gives an Easter Sunday talk on the ancient origins of the "Easter" holiday, what Buddhism has to offer on the subject of rebirth and renewal, and how the bunny fits into the story.