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Presented by the Mountain Rain Zen Community based in Vancouver, BC. Featuring talks by our guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, and other guest speakers.
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Shinmon Michael Newton affirms that beyond recitation and intellectual understanding of the sutras, our practice is full of heart. All is mutually interdependent and dynamic, and all activities are expressions of dharma blossoms. “If thinking and beyond thinking do not divide the mind you can steer the white ox cart endlessly.” (Zen master Hui-neng) _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide commun...
Shinmon Michael Newton continues the Genzo-e by reflecting on Dogen’s “Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we - we in the future shall be buddhas and ancestors.” _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessib...
Myoshin Kate McCandless emphasizes that co-awakening is the nature of our experience- it is only in relationship with the world around us that enlightenment happens. “When your mind is deluded, you are turned by the dharma blossoms. When your mind is enlightened, you turn the dharma blossoms” (Dogen) _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consid...
Hotei Lee Lourdeaux talks about the importance of having a supportive religious community or sangha. _________________________ A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archi...
Myoshin Kate McCandless offers that through entrusting and upholding, each is an extraordinary expression of the blossoming of the Udumbara flower. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on ou...
Shinmon Michael Newton opens our annual Dogen study intensive by exploring the Udumbara Blossom text and introducing this year’s theme. “Holding up a flower means a flower is holding up a flower.” _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going ...
Joko Claire Talbot offers the fourth and final talk in our Dharma Seminar on Shunryu Suzuki’s new book Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on ...
Shiryū talks about faith, queerness and liberation across religious traditions. He dreams of a time when people of different backgrounds can complete each other's sentences. _________________________ A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please conside...
Daikan delves further into the writings of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who suggests that whatever you think or see is the teaching of the Buddha, and whatever you do is the practice of the Buddha. We should not rely on some teachings but should reflect on ourselves. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen...
Jikai Vicki Turay explores the subtleties of reciprocity and how gift-giving has been viewed throughout Buddhist history. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on our website. For questions and com...
Dai-i Flo Rublee continues our dharma seminar on the new book Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life “The way to be yourself is to take care of how you treat yourself including your various desires. This is how you treat your painful legs, how you have good posture, and how you let your breathing be smooth” Shunryu Suzuki _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you fi...
In what ways can obstacles and challenges become the path to liberation? How do we best train our mind to see the dharma lessons that surround us? A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/do...
River Shannon opens our dharma seminar on Shunryu Suzuki’s new book, Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, with an exploration of precepts and vows as an opportunity to grow awareness of present circumstances. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of re...
Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk to launch the new year: In a world that simmers in a state of answerlessness there is so much we cannot know. Vows help the mystery become our field of practice. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back...
Myosen River Shannon offers insight into koans - what they are and how they are used: as objects of meditation, as sprinkles of pepper and spice on practice, as nourishment for the spiritual embryo, and as a way to point to something of deep importance. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/do...
Myoshin Kate McCandless offers that as we cultivate moment-to-moment awareness, joy can become a practice of survival, solidarity and connection. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on our w...
Myoshin Kate McCandless offers the teaching that letting go of self-clinging leads to clear-seeing and non-reactivity, which in turn enables giving generously from our one true heart. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten...
For the last talk of sesshin Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: how do we want our lives to flow outwards and onwards, beyond this body and this lifetime? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on our web...
Shinmon Michael Newton asks: what conceptual things are you holding on to so tightly? Can you call forth the old tea-woman within you? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on our website. F...
Shuso Myosen River Shannon suggests that affording those around us dignity is bodhisattva action. “Beings are me. I will take them in hand. […] Mind goes elsewhere, I steadily walk it home […] I willingly enter each threshold. […] The way of wholeness is true, May I belong to it completely.” - Caroline Meister _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teaching...
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