Dharmatalk: Ordinary Mind Is the Way

09/15/21 • 41 min

“… how everyday experience is actually as vast and boundless as outer space ...”

everyday experience shukman

“… By letting everything be, things have the intrinsic capacity to release themselves ...”

Description: Resuming the discussion about the koan that tells us “ordinary mind is the way,” this talk from the second day of a weekend retreat examines how everyday experience is actually as vast and boundless as outer space. Many of us who have come to Zen as spiritual seekers will be surprised one day when we find that the Way we have been seeking is right here in front of us. It is us, and has been all along.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

September 24-26: Three-day Virtual Retreat.

Oct 3: Original Love Fall 2021 Program.

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“… how everyday experience is actually as vast and boundless as outer space ...”

everyday experience shukman

“… By letting everything be, things have the intrinsic capacity to release themselves ...”

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

September 24-26: Three-day Virtual Retreat.

Oct 3: Original Love Fall 2021 Program.

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Dharmatalk: Enlightenments – One Mountain

“… Many flavors of awakening exist, constituting one mountain range …”

enlightenments one mountain shukman

“… If you’re lucky enough to get up the mountain, you’ve still got to come down again ...”

Description: A novice asks his master, “What is the way?” The master responds, “Ordinary mind.” This koan expresses how ultimate reality can be found in something as commonplace as a cup of coffee. When someone experiences awakening in Zen, they will not need to look beyond their ordinary reckoning to discern a vast range of peaks and valleys as really just one mountain. Many flavors of awakening exist, constituting one mountain range.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

September 24-26: Three-day Virtual Retreat.

Oct 2 & 9:Yoga and Zen – Not Two – Online Classes with Henry and Tias – Prajna Yoga.

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Dharmatalk: Mind At Rest

“... Bodhidharma Puts the Mind at Rest...”

Description: Ruben Roshi has been both Henry and Valerie’s teacher. He is the guiding teacher at the Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas Texas and Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.

Ruben focuses on anxiety, stress and near-despair within the context of the pandemic and our human condition. He explores what Zen practice offers our growing anxiety, pain and suffering using the koan, Bodhidharma Puts the Mind at Rest.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

October 2: Saturday Morning Stillness: Learn to Meditate.

Oct 3: Original Love Fall 2021 Program.

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