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Unpacking Emptiness
Emptiness is an often misunderstood concept in modern Buddhist practice, partially because it is not really a concept so much as a realization. Yet, …
3 years ago
The Heat of Spiritual Longing
Exploring the Great Element Fire we are invited into the heat within our bodies. Fire illuminates the heat of our living and connects us to our passi…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Waters of Compassion
In the Mountains and Waters Sutra, we are invited to study water--to take it up as our body and mind? This level of intimacy is characteristic of the…
3 years, 1 month ago
Rivers of Experience; Ocean of Awareness
The Water Element makes up around 65% of the human body. To attend to the element water we are invited to feel the gravity and flow of embodied exper…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Wisdom of the Earth Element
The first of a five series exploration into the teachings of the Five Great Elements. In this episode we explore the Great Element Earth through embo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Practicing the Profound: Waking up to this Sacred Life
What we believe shapes how we perceive. If we think that we are separate from all the rest of life, we live an isolated life--ignoring the everyday m…
3 years, 2 months ago
Count the Stars in the Night Sky: Zen Koans and the Imagination
The miscellaneous koans of the Zen lineage are image rich, as is much of the teachings on awakening found in the Zen literature. In this talk we will…
4 years, 4 months ago
Approaching Emptiness through Koan Practice
One of the great gifts of the Zen tradition is it's teachings on emptiness. Far from being nihilistic, the teachings and practices of emptiness remin…
4 years, 4 months ago
Emptiness, Unknowing and the Dark
In this dharma talk Kisei explore's the phrase from Hongzhi in Silent Illumination:
If serenity neglects illumination; murkiness leads to wasted dharm…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Qualities of Illumination
In this talk we explore illumination as an aspect of our awakened nature, sometimes experienced as clarity, brightness, lucidity, alertness. We also …
4 years, 6 months ago