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Unconditioned Nirvana

The fashionable appropriation of Non-Duality and Mindfulness is just the froth and not the soup!

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The Seeking Mind

Good to be back after a month off! Dharma Talk for 9-3-2023 All-day Silent Retreat At Myakka River State Park

Sunday Practice Session

I am happy to be back after a month off and looking forward to sitting together! Please join me this Sunday, 9-03-2023 at our Zendo or online for our practice session. After our practice session, I would like to invite sangha members to join me for an Indian buffet at the Royal Peacock Indian Kitchen. They are just up the road from our Sangha at 5445 Fruitville Rd (near Publix).

Hui-neng leads us to water, but we must drink it.

Our study of the platform sutra only leads us to our own minds, nowhere else, no other Buddha. ‘Each of us must practice ourselves. No one else can do it for us. Nor can any text take our place‘ It isn’t that the teaching is direct or not, sudden or gradual. ‘The teaching is simply so. When we finally understand it, it appears direct because it is right in front of us. When we don’t understand it, it appears indirect […]

Calmness and Wisdom

Can you have different emotional states and be calm at the same time? Dharma Talk by Sangha member, Serena Olsen.

Life Is Difficult?

What are the aspects of our practice that deal with difficulty? They are: Don’t Know, Don’t Make, and How can I help?