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Tag Archives: weekly practice
The Seeds Of Consciousness
Transforming the Eight Consciousnesses into the Four Wisdoms. (https://ordinaryzensangha.org/beginnings-are-endings-endings-are-beginnings/) . Please consider making a donation to OZS. Your support is appreciated, as we are exclusively funded by the generosity of our members.
Relaxing Into What Is
Like the Lilies of the field. 12/02/2021- Tonight’s discussion centers around the question; “Is anger ever justified?”
Mountains are mountains – Rivers are rivers
This week, Dharma Teacher Will Rauschenberger quotes from one of Dogen’s essays.
Moutains and rivers are just so
Sharing a poem and its meaning. (https://ordinaryzensangha.org/mountains-rivers-are-just-so/) Dharma Talk, Oct. 17, 2021.
Groundless Ground
Dharma Talk Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. How can we be comforted by knowing there is nothing we can hold on to or grasp?
Zen is exploring who-what you are!
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 Dharma Talk this week focuses on being intimately engaged with life.
Eat Cake
Dharma talk – Sunday, July 4, 2021. “Equanimity, and cake”
The Still Point
The great way is the still point permeating all movement. “Moonlight on water”
Linji’s Grandfatherly Advice
On this Fathers Day, 6/20/2021, Will reads from The Record of Linji (Linji Lu). Linji is the great grandfather of one of the schools of Zen (Chan) and has a message for us today. “Nowadays, he who studies buddhadharma must seek true insight. Gaining true insight, he is not affected by birth-and-death, but freely goes or stays. He needn’t seek the excellent— that which is excellent will come of itself.”