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Zen Buddhism meets the Soul of the World. Artful reflections on dharma practice, awakening and living a soulful life through the mediums of prose, poetry and podcast.
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sparkling in pure light (opens the original)
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Greetings! I am beginning a series of talks exploring the wisdom of Zen Master Shitou’s Sandokai, which is translated in various ways including: The Identity of Relative and Absolute, Being One and Many, The Harmony of Difference and Sameness. In this podcast dharma talk I explore the first stanza of the poem using Nelson Foster’s translation: The mind (heart) of the great sage of India was intimately conveyed (transmitted) from west to east. Though people may be sharp-witted or dull, there's no
All is blessed, all is blessed (opens the original)
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Greetings Friends, I am returning from the Grasses, Trees and Great Earth Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery. An outdoor sesshin I have had the deep pleasure of co-leading for the past six years. During the sesshin we practiced various ways of listening to the dharma of the natural world, including: * Hearing with the eyes, heart, whole body. * Letting ourselves be seen by the sky, ferns, rocks and queen ann’s lace. * Becoming tree, black-berry, forest, ground. The great earth and sky speak the
Nothing in this World Frightens Me (opens the original)
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Greetings! It’s Leo season (how is it the over 50% of people I know are Leos?) I have had the joy of some travel over the past month—Mud Lotus Sangha did our first weeklong sesshin at Saranam Retreat Center in WV, I saw Bob Dylan in concert in Cincinnati and spent a few days on the Atlantic shore immersed in Ocean Mudra Samadhi. I’m back in Ohio for a couple of weeks and then I will be heading to Great Vow Zen Monastery for a jukai ceremony and our Grasses, Trees and the Great Earth Sesshin foll
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