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2010

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vows

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Into the Blue Dragon's Cave

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Guanyin in the Pavilion Under the August Moon

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Gathering in the Valley of Our Time

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Jiashan

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Great Silence at the Beginning

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2017 Fall Sesshin

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2018 Summer Sesshin

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vastness

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poet Czesław Miłosz

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2020 Fall Sesshin

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love

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2021 Summer Sesshin

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2016 Winter Sesshin

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2012

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Daodejing

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mystery

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ancestors

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climate change

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Jordan McConnell

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buddha nature

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Valley Spirit

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Buddha's Story

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2018 Winter Sesshin

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trust

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2021 Spring Sesshin

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2023 Summer Sesshin

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2009

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practice

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Daoism

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Dahui

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Huangbo

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the self

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2018

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2019

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bodhisattva

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poet Rilke

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universe

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audio clip

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uncertainty

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poet John Tarrant

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not picking and choosing

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2021 Fall Sesshin

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June 14 2022

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2022 Fall Sesshin

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2023 Fall Retreat

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The Light Inside the Dark

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Heart Sutra

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healing

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2018 Fall Retreat

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2019 Summer Sesshin

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koans

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Chan

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falling

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loss

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universe at play

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poet Du Fu

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Master Ma

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Xuedou

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2021

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unexpected gifts

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guided meditation

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metamorphosis

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June 15 2022

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The Storehouse of Treasures Opens by Itself

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Sunday Talk

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teachers

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reality

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2014 January Sesshin

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2016 Summer Retreat

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no date

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meditation practice

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2017 Summer Sesshin

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Laozi

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Inquiry Koans

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Guishan

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Deshan

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Predicament Koans

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Diamond Sutra

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suffering

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poet Anna Swir

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freedom

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empathy

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kindness

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poet Tony Hoagland

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Michael Wilding

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poet Issa

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Shishuang

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Baling

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interwoven

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being lost

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June 16 2022

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a solitary boat with no oars

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happiness

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compassion

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sickness and medicine

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2011 Summer Sesshin

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2017 January Sesshin

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demons

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wandering

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pilgrimage

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heart-mind

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connection

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the valley spirit never dies

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Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple

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moon

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poet Naomi Shihab Nye

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new year

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here

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Kanzeon

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red thread

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meeting difficulty

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Yunyan

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opening night

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Shunryu Suzuki

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artist

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2022 Winter Sesshin

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Koun Yamada

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June 26 2022

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journey

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darkness and light

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pain

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ordinary mind

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2011 Bare Bones Sesshin

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Earth

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transcripts

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fire

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disaster

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sitting meditation

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creativity

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Daowu

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Coronavirus

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Yangshan

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koan

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great light

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precepts

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difficult times

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June 26 2020

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Fayan

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Zen Tuesdays

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poet Jane Hirshfield

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Zenosaurus

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Handing Things on in the Dark

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Free & Easy Wandering

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having a practice

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Chan history

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encounters

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poet Su Dungpo

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2022 Ancestral Stories Retreat

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carried in the dark

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2014 Winter Sesshin

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Bodhisattva of Compassion

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predicaments

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Refuge Ceremony

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memory

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Sutra Book

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Sutras

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1999

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psychotherapy

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Allison Atwill's Art Talk

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sesshin

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generosity

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what is this?

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Manjushri

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descent

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2020

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joy

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control

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kensho

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Hongzhi

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Dalong (Ta Lung)

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September

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poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

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flute

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just this

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poet Wislawa Szymborska

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Duke Zhi

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listening

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2021 Winter Sesshin

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rakshasas

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enjoy yourself

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tea lady

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poet Elizabeth Bishop

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Taking Part in the Gathering

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dying

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August 1 2021

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grief

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path

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lostness

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Boat Monk

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October 30 2022

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January 15 2023

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Japan

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February 2 2023

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Land of the Medicine Buddha

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home

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cause and effect

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Wumen

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spring

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Mount Madonna Center

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fires

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lockdown

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fear

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gratitude

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lost

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making music

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doubt

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dream

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risk

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water

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delight

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Blue Dragon’s Cave

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raft

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ferryboat

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dragon

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immensity

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moving in the dark

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thanksgiving

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true nature

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winter

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Closing Ceremony

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tumultuous times

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working with koans

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Special Program

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ceremonies

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End of Summer Dreams

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translation

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writer David Hinton

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fox

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writer Morten Schlütter

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Memorial Day

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Magical Meetings

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June 12 2022

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June 13 2022

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hearing

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June 17 2022

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vessel of practice

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August 7 2022

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December 18 2022

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way-seeking mind

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illness

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poet N Scott Momaday

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in the bath

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2015 Fall Sesshin

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2015 Summer Sesshin

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Joan Sutherland

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identity

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2013 Harvest Moon Retreat

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retreat

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Baizhang

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2012 Summer Sesshin

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2011 Spring Sesshin

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2012 Bare Bones Retreat

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2011 Hunters Moon Sesshin

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2010 Summer Sesshin

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audiobook

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politics

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2014 Summer Retreat

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2008

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summer

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Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center

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2014 Rising from Stillness Retreat

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snow in a silver bowl

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Buddha

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Engakuji

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Ikkyu

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temple fire

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Bankei

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original face

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Zen Online

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Avalokiteshvara

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separation

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dragon pool

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the journey

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beauty

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brightness

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secret fidelity

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creative process

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gift

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pure land

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welcome

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radiance

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play

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poet Machado

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disorderly karmic consciousness

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Yamada Koun

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musician Ryan McCoy

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chanting

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sound

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poet Richard Wilbur

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prajna

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solo voyage

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vessel

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love in Zen

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poet William Blake

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humor

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poet Walt Whitman

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May 30 2021

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relationships

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summer dreams

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June 26 2021

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The Way

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medicine

,

eternity

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poems

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Zen

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transmission

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Dreams of Awakening

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Hakuin's Praise Song Series

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confusion

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Indigenous ways

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May 29 2022

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darkness

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resistance

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vulnerability

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Egyptian love poem

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September 18 2022

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Zen and earth consciousness

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January 8 2023

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paradox

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January 29 2023

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life path

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February 12 2023

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ancient trees

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poet Denise Levertov

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February 3 2023

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February 4 2023

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being born

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March 5 2023

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hospital

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Yellow Crane Pavilion

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painted crane

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Great Fish Kun

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attention

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September 28 2023

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poet Louise Gluck

,

vessel of sesshin

,

poet W. S. Merwin

,

golden wind

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Sunday Zen

,

quest

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surprises

,

student and teacher

,

spiritual journey

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2013 January Retreat

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koan history

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Shambhala Sun

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2014 Fall Retreat

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painting

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performance art

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storytelling

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2019 Summer Retreat

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purification

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Luopu

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Australia

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Vimalakirti

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Daiyu

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Swampy Cree Wishing Bone Cycle

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Gateless Gate

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guitar

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family

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underworld

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myth

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inner life

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Bluegrass Zen

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strategies

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doing it wrong

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Sutra

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woman

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delusion

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time

,

why?

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Changsha

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navigating Covid-19

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beloved

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pandemic

,

writer Lewis Hyde

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I vow to set endless heartache to rest

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certainty

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rather have nothing than something good

,

interconnectedness

,

evening words

,

fundamental questions

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sangha

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ritual

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seeing

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samadhi

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Kamakura Zendo

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rhinoceros

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space

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according with the Dao

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Indra's Net

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September 6 2020

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lamplight

,

not getting it

,

poet Marie Howe

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landscape

,

Celtic music

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October 20 2020

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poet Alexie Sherman

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Caterhaugh

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November 29 2020

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Journey Into Awakening

,

poet Mary Oliver

,

dedication

,

midnight

,

alchemy

,

Land of Demons

,

Tortoise Mountain

,

Green Glade of Meditation

,

poet Seamus Heaney

,

worry

,

The Ink Dark Moon

,

opening the heart

,

rituals of love

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impossible tasks

,

Sandokai

,

Kuon Shihyuan

,

conversation

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Wuzu

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June 23 2021

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funerals

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rakusu

,

heartache

,

living down a level

,

poet John Milton

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desire

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distraction

,

turning into the difficulty

,

difficulty

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frustration

,

koans and the arts

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Muzhou (Mujo)

,

the visible and invisible companionship of animals

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poet Santoka

,

lineage

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December 5 2021

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hoofs & horns

,

Boxing Day

,

war

,

March 20 2022

,

16 Bodhisattva Vows

,

clarity

,

Susan Murphy

,

Mother Deep

,

excerpt

,

reading

,

mysterious

,

true self

,

universe pouring through

,

not interwoven

,

Dogen

,

mistakes

,

front foot & back foot walking

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September 4 2022

,

destruction

,

Kalpa Fire

,

letting go

,

dark materials

,

Ballad of Tam Lin

,

beginnings and endings

,

January 22 2023

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Part 4

,

a gift

,

dark

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February 19 2023

,

traveling

,

poet Han Shan

,

anxiety

,

March 26 2023

,

navigating change

,

the red thread

,

Oxherding Pictures

,

birds

,

your light

,

crisis

,

poet Ocean Vuong

,

June 11 2023

,

June 16 2023

,

Buffalo Talk

,

leaving

,

June 25 2023

,

being carried

,

inquiry

,

writer Martin Amis

,

Takuan Soho

,

lost and found

,

September 29 2023

,

inclusion

,

2023 Fall Sesshin

,

mindfulness

,

world comes forth

,

Angela Center

,

struggle

,

women & Zen

,

2013 Bare Bones Retreat

,

expectations

,

2012 Autumn Moon Retreat

,

consciousness

,

poverty

,

soul

,

Doushuai

,

video still

,

installation art

,

me

,

if you turn things around you are like the Buddha

,

livestream

,

the bird path

,

Jinniu

,

January

,

2019 Mysterious Paths Retreat

,

Sayings of Linji

,

Jon Joseph

,

about enlightenment

,

2014 October Retreat

,

Saint Dorothy's Rest

,

goblins

,

koans for hard times

,

no merit whatsoever

,

Takagi Shrine

,

at fault or not

,

great doubt

,

closing

,

emotions

,

Odysseus

,

confinement

,

birth

,

hero's journey

,

koan types

,

loneliness

,

Miaozong

,

satori

,

April 5 2020

,

huatou

,

Prajnatara

,

May 3 2020

,

companionship

,

spaciousness

,

noticing

,

it's alive!

,

otherness

,

calling and answering

,

no-gate gateway

,

solitude

,

isolation

,

avoidance

,

May 21 2020

,

stillness

,

bardos

,

songs

,

Zen method

,

societal unrest

,

racist behaviors

,

gardening

,

unrest

,

demonstrations

,

buddhas

,

delusive thinking

,

June 14 2020

,

poet Anna Akhmatova

,

June 27 2020

,

poet Alberto Rios

,

thank you

,

July 19 2020

,

always I carry light and silence

,

Entangling Vines

,

integration

,

August 2 2020

,

August 16 2020

,

Guanyin Oracle

,

August 23 2020

,

call and response

,

Nakagawa

,

Flower Garland Sutra

,

air

,

fall

,

August 9 2020

,

what is your light?

,

true world

,

poet Wallace Stevens

,

immersion

,

ceremony

,

September 27 2020

,

poet Nanao Sakaki

,

transparence

,

Welcome to Sesshin

,

mixed media

,

paper

,

sailing

,

journals

,

October 1 2020

,

not for anything else

,

October 3 2020

,

October 2 2020

,

withered tree

,

Sutra Service

,

ballad

,

Zen and music

,

no rank

,

poet Wordsworth

,

tree poem

,

faery realm

,

imaginative response

,

Koan Curriculum

,

poet Ikkyu

,

poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

,

solstice

,

wonder

,

January 3 2021

,

everything new

,

primal darkness

,

terra incognita

,

solo

,

writer Primo Levi

,

brocade

,

February 7 2021

,

the current matter

,

writer Garnette Cadogan

,

Walking While Black

,

Sengcan

,

Xinxin Ming

,

February 14 2021

,

naming

,

2013 Fall Sesshin

,

Zenosaurus 02

,

anger

,

April 21 2021

,

retreat experience

,

Refuge Vows

,

Mother's Day

,

May 9 2021

,

chronic pain

,

June 13 2021

,

fathers

,

pure vows

,

Father's Day

,

June 24 2021

,

June 25 2021

,

synchronicity

,

Four Noble Truths

,

confidence

,

Huineng

,

poet Kay Ryan

,

September 5 2021

,

unicorn

,

tenderness

,

spells

,

Inquiring Mind magazine

,

shadow

,

not holding back

,

Carl Jung

,

the unconscious

,

spells for passing through danger & demons

,

writer James Hillman

,

poet Juan Ramón Jimenez

,

animal heart-mind

,

animals

,

poet Christopher Smart

,

poet William Merwin

,

traveler

,

October 3 2021

,

The Little Prince

,

Layman Pang & Daughter Lingzhao

,

Zen Greats

,

mysterious tasks

,

poet Shiki

,

Miscellaneous Koans

,

writer David Chadwick

,

interview

,

February 20 2022

,

journey itself is home

,

Sho Sai Myo Kichijo Dharani

,

February 5 2022

,

Yantou

,

Xuefeng

,

my mind is not at rest

,

February 27 2022

,

saxophone

,

March 6 2022

,

Steve Walker Funeral

,

treasures

,

ancient knowledge

,

April 17 2022

,

Vows as Koans

,

April 24 2022

,

May 1 2022

,

poem

,

May 15 2022

,

Enlightenment Series

,

Zen vs Chan

,

Song Dynasty

,

June 5 2022

,

chaos times

,

Santa Sabina Center

,

reaching

,

self-consciousness

,

sharp and round

,

July 10 2022

,

Whitsun Wedding

,

writer Philip Larkin

,

July 17 2022

,

poet Robert Creely

,

teaching

,

July 24 2022

,

August 14 2022

,

August 31 2022

,

writer Milan Kundera

,

writer Roberto Calasso

,

August 28 2022

,

Jizo

,

summertime

,

In the Palace at the Blue Cliff

,

Predicament Koan 2

,

September 11 2022

,

Golden-Haired Lion

,

emptiness of emptiness

,

Predicament Koan 3

,

October 6 2022

,

October 5 2022

,

October 24 2022

,

becoming a buddha

,

peach blossoms

,

synesthesia

,

November 6 2022

,

poet Tomas Transtromer

,

November 28 2022

,

December 12 2022

,

extinction

,

what endures?

,

a solitary boat

,

HOP Welcome

,

morning star

,

January 30 2023

,

Kamakura

,

a flower twirled

,

February 1 2023

,

death poems

,

Xiangyan

,

finding home

,

Part 3

,

Part 1

,

February 20 2023

,

forgetting

,

trickster

,

vast emptiness

,

solitary boat

,

February 26 2023

,

Five Ranks

,

karma

,

everywhere

,

even in the piss and shit

,

unaccountable happinesses

,

great knowledge

,

poet W. H. Auden

,

not having the wrong life

,

Issan Dorsey

,

Healing Is Like Kissing

,

March 12 2023

,

lack

,

coping

,

dogs

,

March 18 2023

,

metaphor

,

ocean

,

Polynesia

,

gifts

,

turbulence

,

navigator Tupaia

,

great forces

,

Chateaubriand

,

teacher and student

,

a cappella

,

tiger

,

lion

,

March 27 2023

,

writer Earthlyn Manuel

,

Indigenous practices

,

shamanism

,

cave

,

death & dying

,

hospice

,

April 24 2023

,

flight

,

April 12 2023

,

resurrection

,

cosmic mandala

,

heart opening

,

no barriers in consciousness

,

April 28 2023

,

great questions

,

thoughts & feelings

,

May 7 2023

,

moving

,

Hawai'i

,

unexpected help

,

trusting in the Dao

,

shelter

,

May 14 2023

,

uniting

,

May 21 2023

,

tourist

,

January 31 2021

,

writer Ruth Ozeki

,

May 29 2023

,

time-being

,

Book of Form & Emptiness

,

writing

,

racism

,

Kyoto

,

May 28 2023

,

June 4 2023

,

translucence

,

Yaoshan

,

oxherding

,

just here

,

anguish

,

staying

,

Fox Koan

,

June 17 2023

,

July 2 2023

,

Titans

,

sunkenness

,

Titanic

,

surrender

,

stone

,

diving

,

animal teachers

,

June 14 2023

,

June 13 2023

,

fishing

,

June 15 2023

,

mysterious devices

,

Record of Dongshan

,

October 18 2020

,

fairytale

,

Make Yourself a Raft Series

,

July 16 2023

,

community

,

tradition

,

August 7 2023

,

lazy

,

August 20 2023

,

burden

,

September 3 2023

,

September 11 2023

,

September 17 2023

,

September 27 2023

,

danger

,

takuan-daikon pickles

,

September 24 2023

,

Beauty and the Beast

,

Belinda and the Monster

,

Hawai'ian myth

,

King Kamehameha

,

Naha Stone

,

mercy

,

October 8 2023

,

2023

,

October 15 2023

,

troubled times

,

poet Stanley Kunitz

,

flavors of life

,

sorrows of the world

,

Achilles

,

Hector

,

refusal

,

swimming

,

Budai

,

King Priam

,

Iliad

,

forgetting and remembering

,

cycles

,

always changing

,

October 27 2023

,

Bright virtue

,

writer Kim Stanley Robinson

,

October 28 2023

,

Poet - Paul Celan

,

autumn

,

writer Oliver Sacks

,

mind is an artist

,

eternal

,

October 30 2023

,

Pico Iyer

,

Big questions

,

October 29 2023

,

November 12 2023

,

Paradise Lost

,

Poet Robert Haas

,

helping others

,

coming and going

,

November 15.2023

,

Sci-fi

,

climate wars

,

country

,

Mark Epstein

,

February 21 2024

,

asking

,

Governor Jerry Brown

,

Mother Teresa

,

ambition

,

contemplation

,

ordinary life

,

November 26 2023

,

no complaints

,

not objecting to life

,

hundred-foot pole

,

December 3 2023

,

Holy Grail

,

Parsifal

,

Fisher King

,

grail

,

December 17 2023

,

December 31 2023

,

Crane in the Moonlight

,

Corey Hitchcock

,

the dark way

,

the open hand

,

poet Robert Hass

,

Kanzeon Sutra

,

Kannon

,

consolation

,

secret harmonies

,

First Duino Elegy

,

setting out

,

pathway

,

Way

,

appreciation

,

companions

,

surprise

,

harmony

,

everything is here

,

January 28 2024

,

January 7 2024

,

guest

,

host

,

October 6 2024

,

poet Robert Creeley

,

true encounter

,

Standing at the Blue Cliff

,

Q & A

,

work

,

self nature

,

culture

,

privacy

,

lists

,

writer Ruth Fuller Sasaki

,

2015 January Sesshin

,

problems

,

decisions

,

decision making

,

curiosity

,

meeting a face from long ago

,

self-deception

,

puppets

,

waiting

,

Lama Yeshe

,

depression

,

2013 Santa Sabina Retreat

,

Cloud Gate

,

slideshow

,

2013 July Retreat

,

2016 Fall Sesshin

,

Chogyam Trungpa

,

spirit

,

essays

,

2006

,

1998

,

1998 Winter Sesshin Teisho

,

Baizhang's Fox

,

journaling

,

sculpture

,

walking meditation

,

paths

,

mantras

,

October 2018

,

scented grass

,

wuwei

,

John Tarrant

,

David Weinstein

,

Daoism & Zen

,

Monday Night Talk

,

Robert Aitken

,

2014 Golden Wind Retreat

,

Maitreya

,

Stop the War

,

who is hearing?

,

who are we together?

,

lead off batter

,

Sambhogakaya

,

koan categories

,

moonlike beauty

,

November 2019

,

Jesse Cardin

,

March 2020

,

quarantine

,

smallest things

,

neighbors

,

our times

,

April 1 2020

,

April 7 2020

,

April 12 2020

,

April 2 2020

,

gestational time

,

April 17 2020

,

April 9 2020

,

April 13 2020

,

South Mountain

,

April 19 2020

,

disruption

,

denial

,

departure

,

Issa's Story

,

April 26 2020

,

April 24 2020

,

praise

,

partner

,

illumination

,

female

,

Miaozong's Dharma Interview

,

Zen nun

,

dragons

,

grace

,

unexpected questions

,

April 27 2020

,

Earth Day

,

environmental

,

April 30 2020

,

connectivity and stillness

,

Yao Mountain

,

Seung Sahn

,

emptiness and form

,

magic

,

May 10 2020

,

Ritchie Domingue

,

Amaryllis Fletcher

,

May 5 2020

,

April 28 2020

,

awareness

,

Zoom fatigue

,

sadness

,

May 7 2020

,

May 12 2020

,

protective response

,

psychic immune system

,

dregs of life

,

May 13 2020

,

May 11 2020

,

May 15 2020

,

separation vs saturation

,

dualism

,

Lindworm Tale

,

Master Crag

,

belonging

,

May 14 2020

,

where are you coming from?

,

May 18 2020

,

May 19 2020

,

wanting

,

May 20 2020

,

love & trust

,

Ekai

,

Mumon

,

movement

,

6th Ancestor

,

May 22 2020

,

musician David Byrne

,

May 25 2020

,

step by step

,

stories

,

pilgrim

,

May 24 2020

,

May 6 2020

,

liberation

,

opposition

,

stinginess

,

scarcity

,

May 26 2020

,

May 31 2020

,

from the very beginning

,

nothing has been withheld

,

measuring

,

June 1 2020

,

dilemna

,

distress

,

civil unrest

,

June 4 2020

,

only a dream

,

improv

,

fun

,

creating a me

,

good vs bad

,

do the opposite

,

police

,

poet Neruda

,

ideas

,

what remains?

,

discomfort

,

destabilizing

,

no fixed position

,

protests

,

off course

,

Juneteenth

,

June 21 2020

,

border

,

disembodied

,

poet Jusef Kaminyaka

,

July 5 2020

,

writer Dostoevsky

,

faults

,

poem - The Dangerous Shirt

,

discovery

,

July 28 2020

,

crack gardening

,

small treasures

,

Mistress District Fan

,

poet Tabor

,

poet Takahashi

,

well

,

the wind blows hard through the pines

,

July 26 2020

,

shunyata and emptiness

,

things are not as they seem

,

nor are they otherwise

,

July 7 2020

,

July 15 2020

,

counting

,

Lankavatara Sutra

,

projection

,

waking

,

Momiyo

,

a well undug

,

July 16 2020

,

two heaps of ashes

,

nothing to hide

,

orange blossoms

,

nothing to rely on

,

I won't say

,

June 25 2020

,

out of nowhere

,

no trace

,

Buma Devi

,

strawberry parable

,

2014 Summer Sesshin

,

what am I?

,

embodying koans

,

milkmaid

,

pathos

,

July 11 2013

,

Sutra of Endless Life

,

shaggy-dog koans

,

poet Nazim Hikmet

,

poet Lucille Clifton

,

poet Chana Bloch

,

KALPA FAQs

,

searching

,

lamps

,

breath

,

August 30 2020

,

lamp

,

visual

,

direct realization

,

Yakong

,

Green Mountain

,

hiding the loot in your pocket

,

outside the teaching

,

boat of compassion

,

elements

,

September 13 2020

,

Harada

,

great change

,

one finger Zen

,

Heavenly Dragon

,

poet Bai Juyi

,

poet Meng Haoran

,

story of koto player

,

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

,

August 26 2020

,

lightness

,

collage

,

ink

,

ink on paper

,

blessings

,

Heads of Practice

,

chasing

,

relaxing

,

October 4 2020

,

October 1-4 2020

,

joy on the roads

,

Four Green Fields

,

October 6 2020

,

October 12 2020

,

Tang Dynasty

,

Miriam's Waltz

,

October 19 2020

,

unlooked-for help

,

no-self

,

painter David Hockney

,

poet Pablo Neruda

,

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

,

hidden in plain sight

,

October 2020

,

Jingqing

,

take the backward step

,

October 27 2020

,

October 25 2020

,

ghosts

,

Ghost River

,

courage

,

legend

,

faeryland

,

On the Banks of the Ghost River

,

Halloween

,

commentaries

,

November 8 2020

,

post election

,

wild places

,

losing everything

,

comments

,

experience

,

November 30 2020

,

leftovers

,

increments

,

Jim Harrison

,

meditation as art

,

poem - Searching for the Dharma

,

poet Shu Yin

,

December 13 2020

,

modesty

,

poet Margaret Atwood

,

December 20 2020

,

poet Robert Frost

,

poet Wendell Berry

,

Vasilisa the Brave

,

Christmas Eve

,

ceasefire

,

December 27 2020

,

silent night

,

winter tale

,

shared suffering

,

poet Muriel Rukeyser

,

thanks

,

January 24 2021

,

painter Vermeer

,

moments

,

cuckoo

,

poet Adrienne Rich

,

poet Jack Gilbert

,

poet Tom McGrath

,

the purpose of your life

,

finding your own path

,

February 1 2021

,

doing the impossible

,

trust in your light

,

poet Yousef Koumenyaka

,

poet Onono Kamachi

,

poet Izumi Shubikkyu

,

where is love in Zen?

,

karmic burden

,

poet Raymond Carver

,

sorrow

,

world appearing from silence

,

form and emptiness

,

Winter Solstice

,

September 14 2020

,

stuck

,

Mystery School

,

Zenosaurus 01

,

Zenosaurus 03

,

Zenosaurus 04

,

Zenosaurus 05

,

Zenosaurus 06

,

Zenosaurus 08

,

Zenosaurus 14

,

Zenosaurus 18

,

Zenosaurus 09

,

Zenosaurus 07

,

Zenosaurus 10

,

Zenosaurus 11

,

Zenosaurus 12

,

Zenosaurus 15

,

Zenosaurus 17

,

Zenosaurus 16

,

Zenosaurus 13

,

Ramana Maharshi

,

poet Lee Yan Lee

,

March 14 2020

,

open heart

,

Spring Equinox Return from the Dark

,

poet William Carlos Williams

,

April 4 2021

,

Shakyamuni

,

direct encounter

,

Mara

,

obstructions

,

contradiction

,

losing things

,

following

,

March 22 2021

,

April Fools

,

weeds

,

herbs

,

8th Oxherding Picture

,

Changqin

,

composer John Cage

,

question mark

,

May 2 2021

,

musician Bob Marley

,

scented grasses

,

Blue Cliff

,

mother

,

poet Billy Collins

,

benevolence and filial piety

,

mind flows

,

poet Les Murray

,

poet Barbara Hamby

,

alembic

,

May 16 2021

,

May 23 2021

,

thresholds

,

The Blue Cliff Record

,

Dragons of the Blue Cliff

,

June 7 2021

,

Part 1 Vows as Koans

,

June 20 2021

,

June 21 2021

,

Part 2 Vows as Koans

,

June 14 2021

,

January 2019

,

July 11 2021

,

Robert Hopke's Synchronicity

,

song – Oh What a Beautiful City

,

June 22 2021

,

David Parks

,

Great Masters of the Blue Cliff

,

manifestation

,

2017 Open Mind Retreat

,

March 2017

,

special

,

August 2 2021

,

return

,

August 8 2021

,

stopping

,

August 15 2021

,

changing places with the night sky

,

August 29 2021

,

family of all living creatures

,

August 22 2021

,

following trackless paths

,

July 25 2021

,

Danxia

,

2004

,

little me

,

Dhammapada

,

resentment

,

bitterness

,

the nature of mind

,

poet T.S. Eliot

,

spaceship

,

placebo

,

September 11 2021

,

writer Joseph Conrad

,

poet Coleridge

,

entanglement

,

2005

,

thusness

,

Tricycle magazine

,

First Noble Truth

,

social media

,

epiphanies

,

Bodhisattva Way

,

involuntary process

,

The Red Book

,

money

,

equanimity

,

flirting

,

embarrassment

,

pentimento

,

poet John Keats

,

Dharani

,

June 2021

,

molasses jacket

,

writer Alberto Rios

,

Blood Soul

,

September 26 2021

,

writer Dante

,

Dante's Inferno

,

art of meditation

,

October 10 2021

,

October 17 2021

,

writer Saint Exupery

,

Pang family

,

zero

,

poem - Yellow Crane Pavilion

,

writer Peter Hershock

,

The Hermitage Among Them

,

drenched

,

your awakening

,

November 1 2021

,

Buddhism & AI

,

writer Red Pine

,

Chan poetry

,

November 21 2021

,

worst horse

,

Ananda

,

four kinds of horses

,

November 28 2021

,

giving

,

nourishment

,

writing songs

,

November 29 2021

,

San Mateo Zen

,

mirrors

,

PZI Talk Live

,

December 20 2021

,

December 26 2021

,

December 19 2021

,

Part 1 January 9 2022

,

January 16 2022

,

January 24 2022

,

January 23 2022

,

January 27 2022

,

Oakland Zen

,

art process

,

January 30 2022

,

Chan roots

,

John Tarrant articles

,

Lonnie Rankin

,

miscellaneous

,

Michael Hofmann

,

Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation

,

January 2022

,

Yongjia's Song of Enlightenment

,

February 2022

,

February 13 2022

,

chant against danger and demons

,

February 4 2022

,

February 2 2022

,

my heart is not at rest

,

snow

,

busy mind

,

Opening Ceremony

,

February 1 2022

,

Winter Silence Moonlight Snow

,

writer Ferlinghetti

,

the changing light

,

March 13 2022

,

PZI Sutras

,

March 12 2022

,

Dante

,

Lingyun

,

February 28 2022

,

lost cities

,

March 27 2022

,

secret affinities

,

writer Peter Coyote

,

March 28 2022

,

amnesty

,

October 1 2020

,

June 28 2020

,

musician Leonard Cohen

,

January 17 2021

,

January 16 2021

,

Upside-Down Zen

,

Gina Fiedel

,

poet Derek Wolcott

,

poet Marianne Moore

,

the soul in Zen

,

the owl and the bell

,

physician

,

healer

,

May 8 2022

,

Isis

,

motherhood

,

great mother

,

April 27 2021

,

Bodhisattva Vow

,

Torei Zenji

,

moonlight

,

in your life

,

translating

,

May 22 2022

,

Puhua

,

expression

,

transformative

,

release

,

Juzhi (Judi)

,

bearing it

,

bears

,

mirror

,

being stuck

,

June 27 2022

,

search

,

Tarrantworks

,

curriculum

,

koanville

,

Morning Talk

,

being in the life you have

,

crimes wiped away

,

zazen

,

respect

,

circle

,

exercise

,

presence

,

possibilities

,

exhaustion

,

Decheng

,

waking up together

,

dread

,

full feeling

,

disturbance

,

the path

,

bright & dark

,

dark forces

,

July 3 2022

,

duality

,

Daiwu

,

galaxies

,

September 26 2022

,

end of the universe

,

September 25 2022

,

October 4-9 2022

,

Door After Door Opening Inside

,

writer GuoGu

,

Jianyuan

,

All Hallows Eve

,

making a self

,

Nanyue

,

writer Gerald Murnane

,

writer Jeffrey Mishlove

,

poet

,

June 2022

,

The Great Way

,

poet George Bilgere

,

Prajnaparamita

,

I Ching

,

Crag Called Empty One

,

silent illumination

,

December 4 2022

,

nameless

,

trusting the silence

,

remembering

,

April 8 2021

,

December 3 2022

,

story

,

koan story

,

published

,

Maralung

,

Part 2

,

research on koan history

,

blocked

,

spiral path

,

tok!

,

field of knowledge

,

coming into light

,

The Gift

,

Genjokoan

,

gift economy

,

February 5 2023

,

scorn

,

getting it wrong

,

getting lost

,

hermits

,

sudden awakening

,

song man

,

doughnuts

,

lay people

,

mountain poems

,

Iron Cliffs

,

Silver Mountains

,

wildness

,

wild

,

dog

,

delusive wisdom

,

Little Prince

,

panic

,

Daishin

,

faith

,

effort

,

nothing to do

,

Ku'ling legend

,

Socrates

,

touch

,

nearness

,

July 18 2021

,

gate

,

dolphin

,

goose

,

Tyger

,

elephant

,

buffalo

,

donkey

,

monkey

,

ox

,

butterfly

,

folk medicine

,

plant medicine

,

Loch Ness Monster

,

Blue Dragon

,

July 21 2019

,

creatures

,

The Mother Deep

,

The Valley Spirit

,

dark enigma

,

dark feminine

,

true person

,

blockhead

,

solitary brightness

,

be the host

,

no barriers

,

being curious

,

what is it?

,

poet Buson

,

including

,

poet Jane Kenyon

,

body

,

adrift

,

Hell

,

exile

,

initiation

,

burning house

,

homeless

,

grass hut

,

leaving home

,

last words

,

great matter

,

Heraclitus

,

Dasui

,

passion

,

ink drawings

,

artwork

,

Great Silence at the Beginning: Homecoming Kama’aina

,

child of the land

,

not doing

,

gathering

,

Byron Katie

,

writer Stephen Mitchell

,

book discussion

,

The Mind at Home

,

June 19 2023

,

Dharmakaya

,

body of reality

,

great silence

,

June 12 2023

,

fox life

,

intractability

,

Creatures of the Summer Dawn

,

the absolute

,

Dog Koan

,

Fox Roshi

,

dumbling

,

simple son

,

Golden Bird

,

writer Mark Dotey

,

writer Pico Iyer

,

July 9 2023

,

Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

,

live in person

,

mountain

,

lake

,

stream

,

valley

,

field

,

Emperor Wu

,

October 7 2022

,

Westlin' Winds

,

regret

,

I don't know

,

forest

,

response

,

river

,

July 23 2023

,

helplessness

,

Bodhisattva Vows

,

sacrifice

,

feeling the time

,

sheet music

,

white ox

,

here-ness

,

poet Gerald Stern

,

being on the path

,

poet Gbenga Adesina

,

August 27 2023

,

August Series

,

Lazy Summer Afternoons

,

resting

,

writer Italo Calvino

,

pickles

,

mirror neurons

,

everything is true

,

fish

,

Gifts of the Far Ocean

,

2013 Summer Sesshin

,

trusting the field

,

October 1 2023

,

seasons

,

2014 Bare Bones Retreat

,

Jiufeng

,

one strip of white silk

,

olive tree

,

gift cycles

,

guitar solos

,

daikon pickles

,

September 26 2023

,

Closing Night

,

September 27–30 2023

,

in the river

,

navigation

,

rules

,

hard to see

,

November 5 2023

,

Vipassana

,

insight meditation

,

January 22 2024

,

saving the earth

,

planet earth

,

psychiatrist

,

Monday Zen

,

Harpist Delphine Moss

,

musician Rose Joseph

,

guitarist Jordan McConnell

,

harp

,

March 3 2024

,

speaker series

,

guest speakers

,

Wumenguan

,

koan collections

,

the unknown

,

108 bells

,

November 19 2023

,

Jane Hirshfield

,

March 27 2024

,

poet Rainer Maria Rilke

,

January 21 2024

,

January 14 2024

,

February 4 2024

,

poet Taneda Santoka