When you are identified with the dream, you don’t know you are dreaming. If you are not identified with the dream, you know you are dreaming.
Podcasts: Note To Self
Podcasts of the Dharma Talks at Ordinary Zen Sangha.
Self-Cherishing
Our attachments… Zen is a direct experience, it is not some ideology or escape from reality.
The Trickster
Trick or treat? Who’s fooling who?
Birthlessness
What are we doing here?
I have no words
The gift of our Meditation practice.
The Perfection Of Patience
To practice patience is the ability to endure, and to have forbearance. It is integral to living; without it, we cannot accomplish anything.
Metta, Loving Kindness in Zen practice
After the hurricane.
Brightness And Darkness
The Dharma talk from Sunday 10/2/2022, 4 days after Hurricane Ian. It included a reading from A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo. Unobstructed Wisdom [A monk] asked, “Did the Buddha bring an end to ignorance or not?” The master replied, “Ignorance is the very site where all buddhas attain the Way.” Master Subul, Seon. A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo with a Modern Commentary
Don’t Know
Don’t Know is ever-present.