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Recorded: May 23rd, 2008
Speakers:Roshi Joan Halifax
Show:73

Roshi Joan Halifax gives this Dharma talk about the 5th Precept by focusing on the need to practice presencing each moment just as it is without needing to change anything including altering our mind state. She explores the truth of many substances and experiences which can toxify our capacity for embodying wisdom and compassion.

Recorded on: May 23rd, 2008
Posted on: July 3rd, 2008
Speaker: Roshi Joan Halifax
Show: 82

Roshi Joan Halifax speaks during the Yoga and Buddhism retreat about the fine points of discerning the difference between attention, presence, consciousness and awareness; the mind/body dichotomy; various forms of meditation and focus.

Recorded: May 21st, 2008
Speakers: Joan Halifax
Show: 80

Roshi Joan Halifax uses the koan of the Iron Flute to speak about legacy (the effects of our efforts). She discusses our imperative to live fully every moment but tempered by the commitment and responsibility to nourish the Dharma.

Koan

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Recorded: April 23rd, 2008
Speakers: Beate Seishin Stolte
Show: 78

Beate Seishin Stolte, Vice Abbot of Upaya Zen Center
Beate references several koans in this talk about the quality
of aliveness and how it is measured in degrees of awareness and awakeness.
Our aliveness arises in direct proportion to the quality of selflessness
or self-forgetting in us.

selflessness
koan

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Recorded: April 16th, 2008
Speakers: An Evening with Natalie Goldberg and Wendy Johnson
Show: 77

Authors and Zen practitioners, Natalie Goldberg and Wendy Johnson share stories and readings from their newly released books: Old Friend From Far Away and Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, respectively. As the talk progresses we learn from the authors that the themes of the two books: writing memoir and gardening are not really what the books are about…

Natalie Goldberg
Wendy Johnson

Recorded: April 9th, 2008
Speakers: Joan Halifax
Show: 81

Vice Abbot Beate Seishin Stolte discusses the need to understand our fundamental loneliness in order to practice Zen. She emphasizes that we need to understand and practice the lineage of the ancestors which requires us to discover the true attitudes and vision of Zen practice.

Zen practice

Recorded: April 9th, 2008
Speakers: Joan Halifax
Show: 79

Roshi relates her recent experience at Eihei-ji Monastery in Japan,
founded by Eihei Dogen, father of the Soto Zen school. Experiences
at the monastery illuminate a realization and experience of
continuities punctuated by the natural cycles of seasonal change.

Eihei Dogen
Soto Zen

Robina Courtin, a nun for the past 20 years in the Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhist tradition speaks on the roots of suffering as manifested by the delusional mind.

Robina contributes to our understanding of the characteristics and functions of the mind, with an emphasis on identifying and transforming the disturbing emotions and perceptions arising as a result of the mind’s tendency to embellish fact with delusional overlay. Robina illustrates some concepts by drawing from her work with the Liberation Prison project.

Recorded December 5, 2007
Speakers: Kazuaki Tanahashi Sensei, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara & Roshi Joan Halifax

Tanahashi Sensei tells a story of Dogen’s response to his monks when asked about the Buddha’s enlightenment. Next Enkyo Roshi speaks the error of seeking “enlightening” as something outside ourselves or different from what we are and how we cut off and separate ourselves allowing the formation of “other” and “enemy”. Roshi Joan speaks about the Denkai ceremony, the central importance of relationship and mutuality in the practice, of coming to know one another in an uncommon way, of coming to know our own heart, and of the importance of not finding fault with the present moment.