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Teisho: Valerie Forstman: Celebration of Sister Elaine MacIness
This teisho is given on the 100th birthday of Sister Elaine MacIness. Valerie shares a sketch of the remarkable life and work of Sister Elaine who was a Roman Catholic nun as well as a student and Dharma heir of Yamada Koun Roshi. With great warmth and respect, Valerie describes Sister Elaine’s experience during sesshin on December 6, 1972. “The heart-spot burst open, and its beautiful contents exploded right through the whole of me, until there was no-Elaine left.” To honor sister Elaine, Valerie shares the koan “Obaku’s Devourer of Dregs,” which is case 11 of the Blue Cliff Record and also found as Case 53 of the Book of Serenity. Listen and discern why Obaku asserts, “there is no Zen t...
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Teisho: Valerie Forstman: Leaping into Here and Now
Просмотров 9012 часов назад
In this teisho, Valerie takes up the important koan, “Three pounds of flax.” This is case 12 in the Hekiganroku or Blue Cliff Record and also appears as case 18 in the Mumonkan or Gateless Gate. A monk asked Tozan, “What is Buddha?” To which Tozan answered, “Masagin!” Explore this answer with Valerie, but as she says, “blink and you will miss it.” Concepts can’t touch this one beating heart, th...
Teisho: Carolyn Seburn. Shakyamuni holds up a flower
Просмотров 5314 часов назад
In this teisho on Mumonkan case 6, “Shakyamuni Holds Up a Flower,” Carolyn Roshi notes that this koan is uniquely important as a record of the first transmission, the foundation moment of Buddhism. She notes that not a word is spoken at the key moment when Shakyamuni Buddha, on Vulture Peak, gave a teaching by simply holding up a flower. Among the many disciples in attendance, only Maha Kasyapa...
Teisho: Sean Tetsudo Murphy: Creativity Applied to Zen Practice
Просмотров 11921 час назад
Recorded at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM on May 9th, 2024 Sean Tetsudo Murphy, Sensei, is a fully authorized Zen teacher in the American White Plum lineage, as well an award-winning author and recipient of a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. The author of One Bird One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, as well as three novels with Bantam Dell boo...
Teisho: Valerie Forstman: Where Does the Moon Dwell?
Просмотров 10914 дней назад
In this Zazenkai talk, Valerie shares the moon's reflection through Dogen's teaching and the awakening verses of Chiyono (Mugai Nyodai) and Nyozen of Tokeiji. Chiyono, the first woman in Japan to receive dharma transmission, awakened when the bottom of her bucket dropped out. A century later, Nyozen awakened by meditating on Chiyono's awakening verse. Reference for Nyozen, tlayt.org/the-bucket-...
Teisho: Carolyn Seburn: The Barbarian Has No Beard
Просмотров 6821 день назад
In this teisho, Carolyn takes us through case 4 of the Mumonkan or Gateless Gate. The case is simply stated: Wakuan said, “Why has the western barbarian no beard?” The western barbarian is believed to be Bodhidharma who famously had a wild and generous beard. The pattern of this koan is referred to as “calling black white” as Yamada Koun said. Listen to this beautiful teisho and explore with Ca...
Teisho: Billy Doyle: Our Real Nature
Просмотров 372Месяц назад
Recorded on May 2nd, 2024. In this dharma talk, Billy leads us gently along the path of non-duality. With words he asks us to remember that our real nature can’t be expressed by words. By feeling deeply into the body, the senses, the moment by moment conscious awareness, we can truly experience it. His introduction is followed by questions and answers and finally a short guided meditation. Plea...
Teisho: Valerie Forstman: What Are You Dreaming?
Просмотров 216Месяц назад
Recorded on April 25th, 2024 In this teisho, Valerie takes up the subject of aging and illness using case #94 from The Book of Equanimity. In this case, titled Tozan’s Illness, we hear Master Tozan confounding the shallow questions of the student about this illness. Tozan is not merely ill but facing death. Even from his diminished physical state, he is still guiding his monks in how to underst...
Teisho: Valerie Forstman: Layman Pang’s Snowflakes - February 15, 2024
Просмотров 3284 месяца назад
Valerie begins by reminding us of the wide reach of our practice. While there are innumerable expressions, there is but one fact. According to Dogen, we may have only an inkling, but our continuous practice touches and affects everything. Keeping with the theme of snowflakes (recall Haryo’s silver bowl filling with snow) we are presented with case 42 of the Blue Cliff Record or Hekigonroku, “La...
David Loy, Sept 28, 2023: Seeing Through Our Stories
Просмотров 4434 месяца назад
David Loy speaks about how our sense of self is made of stories. Stories are essential to who we are and how we understand and make sense of the world, yet we are usually unaware that our stories are stories. Accepting or identifying with certain stories about the self and trying to live according to them can create dukkha or suffering. We keep returning to the foundational story of the self, s...
The Ecological Crisis
Просмотров 2255 месяцев назад
David Loy discusses how the ecological crisis is much bigger than the climate emergency. In the Ecodharma movement, there is a lot of emphasis now on connecting the ecological crisis with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) issues. Disadvantaged people, often diverse, indigenous people of color, are already suffering the brunt of the ecological crisis. He also discusses the vast ineq...
Carolyn Seburn, Sept 21, 2023: Exploring a Koan by Touch
Просмотров 4699 месяцев назад
Carolyn speaks of an important case that appears in three koan collections, Gutei’s One Finger. It is the story of a Chinese monk and his attendant, who attained sudden enlightenment after seeing Gutei hold up his finger. This case is a tactile trigger to kensho. “[Yet] you already have everything this one finger can teach you.” Please consider supporting Mountain Cloud with a donation or becom...
Henry Shukman, Fall Sesshin 2023, Day 1: Past the Land's End
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.9 месяцев назад
In the opening talk of the 2023 autumn retreat at Mountain Cloud, Henry likens a sesshin to a journey of practice where growing means finding what we do not already know or anticipate. The voyage starts here, always here. “We are here to become more and more aware of here.” He talks about welcoming and being patient with the currents and tides in meditation and discusses the settling and releas...
July 13, 2023, Valerie Forstman: Which Way to Mount Taizan?
Просмотров 4959 месяцев назад
Each step, each sound, every word is Mount Taizan, the highest peak - this landscape that we can’t, actually, fall out of. Entirety. Shoyoroku Case 10, “An Old Woman near Taizan,” gestures toward such a complete and dynamic landscape. So do a passage from Dogen, an exchange between Bodhidharma and Huike: “Which way shall we go?” “Go straight on.” “If you go straight on you cannot move a step” -...
July 20, 2023, Scott Thornton: Mount Sumeru Vaporizes Mistakes
Просмотров 33610 месяцев назад
A monk asked, “Not a single thought arises. Is there any fault?” Unmon said: “Mount Sumeru.” Sumeru by tradition is higher than the stars, cosmically vast (much vaster than getting it right or wrong), and should be visible from everywhere. Maybe it’s a bit like Unmon’s responses - which, it’s said, always perform three functions: they cut through, they cover the matter entirely, and they fit th...
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 6, Sunday July 2: Taste and See, Be what you are.
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2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 6, Sunday July 2: Taste and See, Be what you are.
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 5: A World So Full it Can’t Accept One More Thing
Просмотров 25811 месяцев назад
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 5: A World So Full it Can’t Accept One More Thing
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 4: A hawk travels many miles by its stillness
Просмотров 23311 месяцев назад
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 4: A hawk travels many miles by its stillness
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 3: The Radiant Light Allows the Radiant Light to Respond
Просмотров 32211 месяцев назад
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 3: The Radiant Light Allows the Radiant Light to Respond
Summer Sesshin Talk 2: Practice-realization, suffering-compassion, wind-fan, and hyphenless reality
Просмотров 21811 месяцев назад
Summer Sesshin Talk 2: Practice-realization, suffering-compassion, wind-fan, and hyphenless reality
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 1: Mu and the Spirit of Dogen
Просмотров 55411 месяцев назад
2023 Summer Sesshin Talk 1: Mu and the Spirit of Dogen
Thursday, June 15, Shana Smith: Eyebrow to Eyebrow
Просмотров 290Год назад
Thursday, June 15, Shana Smith: Eyebrow to Eyebrow
June 10 Archbishop John C. Wester, Only as Sick as our Secrets: Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament
Просмотров 301Год назад
June 10 Archbishop John C. Wester, Only as Sick as our Secrets: Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament
Thursday June 8, Valerie Forstman: Nansen’s circle and the seamless tomb
Просмотров 175Год назад
Thursday June 8, Valerie Forstman: Nansen’s circle and the seamless tomb
Thursday, June 1, Valerie Forstman: Radiance
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Thursday, June 1, Valerie Forstman: Radiance
Thursday, May 25, Diana Clark - In the Seeing, Only What is Seen
Просмотров 261Год назад
Thursday, May 25, Diana Clark - In the Seeing, Only What is Seen
Joshu’s “Wash Your Bowls” (Case 7 in the Mumonkan) May 18, 2023
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Joshu’s “Wash Your Bowls” (Case 7 in the Mumonkan) May 18, 2023
Thursday May 11, Maria Reis Habito, Mu: the World in a New Light
Просмотров 522Год назад
Thursday May 11, Maria Reis Habito, Mu: the World in a New Light
Thursday May 4, Carolyn Seburn: Cause and Effect cannot be Obscured
Просмотров 264Год назад
Thursday May 4, Carolyn Seburn: Cause and Effect cannot be Obscured
The Essential World and Total Circumstance, Valerie Forstman, April 27, 2023
Просмотров 235Год назад
The Essential World and Total Circumstance, Valerie Forstman, April 27, 2023

Комментарии

  • @audiolivroscomdoen6883
    @audiolivroscomdoen6883 День назад

    ALL my gratitude ❤

  • @hansenmarc
    @hansenmarc 4 дня назад

    3:55 civilization has institutionalized the three poisons of Buddhism, which are: 1. Greed and desire 2. Aversion and hatred/aggression 3. Delusion, ignorance, misunderstanding, the most fundamental one of which is not understanding our total, inescapable interconnectedness

  • @juang4618
    @juang4618 7 дней назад

    Western civilization is indeed guilty of "advancing" by use of killing, lying and stealing. But look at the history of Japan. Look at China. Even in tribal societies of pre European America, killing, stealing, slavery, and brutality all existed. This is a human condition problem. Even the societies that had deep connection to nature were often brutal. The big difference is Western European societies have lost the connection to nature and thus are destroying nature in an effort to control it. So, yes, the work of realization is the answer to the problems of the world, but no race or society has really collectively transcended ego.

  • @ToddRoseman
    @ToddRoseman 8 дней назад

    thanks Tetsudo! very helpful

  • @carolbanko2723
    @carolbanko2723 13 дней назад

    Hey,it's carol ur cousin, please get a hold of mee

  • @lennartp186
    @lennartp186 29 дней назад

    Thanks you beautiful! 🙏🏻

  • @GF-ly8io
    @GF-ly8io Месяц назад

    😅

  • @Robert_Lindsay
    @Robert_Lindsay Месяц назад

    These things are hard to convey, but somehow you do convey what you have entered into - and its paradoxical nature.

  • @Teller3448
    @Teller3448 Месяц назад

    "Each of us are invited to have this experience for ourselves" If there is no self...what does 'our-selves' mean?

  • @carlas967
    @carlas967 2 месяца назад

    I listened to this live and have been hoping to hear it again. Henry’s and Valerie’s responses to the questions at the end about suffering and trauma… totally break my heart open. So beautiful, so resonant. I have so much gratitude ❤

  • @carolbanko2723
    @carolbanko2723 2 месяца назад

    It's your cousin,carol please get a hold.of me

  • @willgiorno1740
    @willgiorno1740 2 месяца назад

    ❤ thankyou

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 3 месяца назад

    Oh my Valerie! Thank you for this THISNESS!☺️👨‍🎨🎨🙏🎼👍💫🥰

  • @AnanthaVijaya
    @AnanthaVijaya 3 месяца назад

    I don’t the get the audio after around the 12:00 minute

  • @monikawinkelmann4222
    @monikawinkelmann4222 3 месяца назад

    Thank you. I personally and some people whom I consider as deeply well inforned, as Prof. Yanis Varoufakis from Greece, the former Minister of Economy agree. Many people say that it has always been like this, up to the wars which I am missing in your talk. - To allow, what you are bringing in, remaining undiscussed, makes me speechless. - I hope that there will be a chance for Europe to get independant from the US, from Nato. Because many of us feel urged into the paradigm of warfare instead of love, sharing, save the small ethnies which are threatened to be exterminated just like animals. I am engaged in Pax Christi, which really go for disarmament, are in the streets, at military bases, writing letters to members of Parliament that we do not want school children to be informed about the necessity to serve as soldiers. These have become our huge problems, whereas at the same social thinking, welfare, money for education... are cut down. This will further cause aggression... so that people are frightened and not at all ready to think of the so-called environment. A European movement seems to grow, I hope that some ethical guidelines similar to our vows are implanted. This is very, very roughly our situation, in my eyes. Collaboration for true democracy is on.

  • @mathematicsandstuff
    @mathematicsandstuff 3 месяца назад

    There's the other place where they got a new Abbot. So not all of us are like that. Second thing, the genre is humor. Third, religion and politics do not intersect. These are peaceful people.

  • @manuelkanakaris64
    @manuelkanakaris64 3 месяца назад

    Namesté fellas!

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Very helpful, thanks☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨💫🥰🙏🌅

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    💫👍☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🎉🙏💫😜

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Very helpful explanation and exploration of stories that help humans manage stories. Narrative Therapy is in vogue now to help individuals leave negative stories for more positive and productive stories… thanks David!☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🌅🎉😜

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Excellent! Thank You…☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏

  • @Teller3448
    @Teller3448 4 месяца назад

    Teachings are just information. Happiness isn't made of information.

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Thanks Henry, simple, sweet, easy and very useful…👍☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏🎉🎁🌅

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Mu to you Henry! MUuuuuuuuuu! ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🙏🥰💫🎉🎉🎉☝️

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Valerie, thank you for this wonderful teaching. You are one bright pearl! So intimate and inspiring!👍☺️🙏👨‍🎨🎨🥰☝️Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmuuu

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 4 месяца назад

    Excellent! Thank you…☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🎉🎼💫☝️🙏🌅🎁 I choose to live The Glory of Satori. Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio☺️

  • @moonmissy
    @moonmissy 4 месяца назад

    I’m from a Lam Te Thien Tradition of Vietnam, I practiced both the Koan practice and Jhanas system post Kensho to the 9th Jhana, yes both return the practitioner to the source of the Buddha Nature. Maha Boowa, the former head ofThai Forest Tradition went through to the 9th Jhana and experiences the same. Vietnamese Zen practice makes experiences the Jhanas with the letting go practice which simplifies Jhanas a lot. Traditional Chan texts writes more about Jhanas and Sati than people know. A lot of them are not available in English or carried through to Japanese Zen. The Zen practice is 24/7 awareness which leads to open awareness at all times. Liberation comes from being aware and awake with Buddha nature at all times after the mind is purified.

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 5 месяцев назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🎉💫🌅🙏

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 5 месяцев назад

    👍☺️🎨👨‍🎨🥰☝️💫🙏🎁

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 5 месяцев назад

    👍☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰🎼🙏🎉💫☝️🎁

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 5 месяцев назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏

  • @vice2virtue107
    @vice2virtue107 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this! Amazing!

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 5 месяцев назад

    Excellent, thank you Valerie…we are on a journey without distance to a home we never left…👍☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏

  • @karenlouise2204
    @karenlouise2204 6 месяцев назад

    Thankyou Natalie. You reakky did help. In many ways.

  • @beatcause
    @beatcause 6 месяцев назад

    is there any way to increase the volume on McZc side? I have it all the way up and it could be a bit louder. gassho

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 6 месяцев назад

    Movie Arrival with Amy Adams. The last word is not a word! “Words fail, silence prevails.”Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio 👍☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰☝️🎁🎉thanks Henry🙏

  • @zakmagda
    @zakmagda 6 месяцев назад

    Ruben Zen talks

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you Valerie & Henry…Wonderful …One-Der- Full 🎉☺️👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏☝️Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 7 месяцев назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🍎🙏

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 7 месяцев назад

    So intense, so helpful ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨☝️🍎Thank you Valerie!🎇 Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio

  • @jessifreedom4793
    @jessifreedom4793 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much.

  • @mountainair
    @mountainair 7 месяцев назад

    I love Henry's clear teachings in Zen. I'm surprised he doesn't have a larger following online.

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 7 месяцев назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰🙏☝️🌅🎆😜

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 8 месяцев назад

    Henry, MU shattered the stone, with Laughter! It doesn’t fade! I’m still laughing… gee, golly, shucks…Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio thanks!☺️🤣🤣🤣👨‍🎨🎨🤪🥰👍💫🙏🖐️🍎🍊🍓☝️🌅♥️🎇🎆🕺💃🏻😜

  • @susydyson1750
    @susydyson1750 8 месяцев назад

    The journey might be one of discovering every ripple and wave of you body

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 8 месяцев назад

    🙏☺️👨‍🎨🎨🎼🥰🙏☝️💫🌅 Thank U for MU Valerie… 🙏👨‍🎨🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 8 месяцев назад

    👍☺️🎨👨‍🎨☝️🌅💫

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 9 месяцев назад

    👍👨‍🎨🎨🥰☝️

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 9 месяцев назад

    ☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨💫