When I was a child, I used to play a game with friends called “making the clouds disappear.” Days that clouds were scattered and puffy were ideal. We would each pick a cloud and focus all our energy on making it disappear, and sure enough, with patience, they would disappear! What was wonderful about the game was the experience of oneness, of sky, mind, space. It was the magic of active imagination! As adults, we intellectually might grasp that this […]
Tag Archives: Dharma Talks
The Middle Way and Intimacy
Sunday 2/2/2020 Dharma Talk at OZS.
The Lilies of the Field-1-26-2020
Sunday Dharma Talk by Will Rauschenberger.
This Resolution is Clear Like Space.
Our first Dharma Talk of 2020.
Understanding Why We Worry
The last Dharma Talk of 2019.
Last few days of 2019 – Celebrating Buddha’s Awakening
Buddha’s enlightenment is said to have happened in December, so we celebrate his awakening. As we bring the year to an end, I would like to leave you with two Dharma Talk Podcasts. The first one is by Norman Fisher and includes a wonderful “Fairy Tale” about Buddha’s enlightenment that comes from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Old Path White Clouds. Norman Fisher – “The Buddha as a completely normal person“ http://everydayzen.org/teachings/2013/buddha-normal-person-all-day-sitting-december-2019/ The second Podcast is last Sunday’s Dharma talk at […]
The Gift of Winter
Abbot Will Rauschenberger shares that the winter of our practice is the wonderful gift necessary for our growth and nurture.
Dependent Origination
Abbot Will Rauschenberger talks about Dependent origination and the following poem. Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage Shih-t’ou (700-790) I’ve built a grass hut where there’s nothing of value. After eating, I relax and enjoy a nap. When it was completed, fresh weeds appeared. Now it’s been lived in – covered by weeds. The person in the hut lives here calmly, Not stuck to inside, outside, or in between. Places worldly people live, he doesn’t live. Realms worldly people love, he […]