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The Light Inside the Dark

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2018 fall retreat

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Daoism

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poet Czesław Miłosz

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Buddha's Story

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Chan

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Master Ma

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Michael Wilding

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2021 Fall Sesshin

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June 14

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A solitary boat with no oars

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compassion

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sickness and medicine

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2011 Summer Sesshin

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Chuang tzu

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Inquiry koans

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Guishan

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universe at play

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the valley spirit never dies

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Moon

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Poet - Issa

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uncertainty

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here

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red thread

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unexpected gifts

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artist

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Winter Sesshin 2022

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2011 Bare Bones Sesshin

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Yangshan

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heart mind

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Guanyin

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Fayan

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Poet - Naomi Shihab Nye

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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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meeting difficulty

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interwoven

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PZI Digital Temple

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Ancestral Stories retreat

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2016 Summer Sesshin

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2014 Winter Sesshin

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memory

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1999

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Allison Atwill's Art Talk

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descent

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2020

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June 26 2020

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Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple

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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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Winter Sesshin 2021

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rakshasas

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Dying

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Yunyan

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August 1 2021

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Chan History

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opening night

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Boat Monk

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June 26

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January 15 2023

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February 2 2023

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Land of Medicine Buddha

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Joan Sutherland

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Fires

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lockdown

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Hongzhi

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making music

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Poet - Basho

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Immensity

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true nature

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Winter

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Kanzeon

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working with koans

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Free and Easy Wandering

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Special program

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End of Summer Dreams

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Fox

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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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Koun Yamada

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hearing

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August 7 2022

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October 30 2022

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December 18 2022

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illness

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2015 Fall Sesshin

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identity

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Bare Bones Retreat

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Bodhisattva of Compassion

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Baizhang

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Wumen

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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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psychotherapy

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disaster

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2014 Summer retreat

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2008

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summer

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Mt. Madonna Center

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Rising from Stillness retreat

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snow in a silver bowl

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buddha

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generosity

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Engakuji

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Ikkyu

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Manjushri

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temple fire

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original face

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zen online

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Avalokiteshvara

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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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Blue Dragon’s Cave

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raft

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Ferryboat

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Poet - Richard Wilbur

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Duke Zhi

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Shishuang

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new year

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listening

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solo voyage

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vessel

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bodhisattava path

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Love in Zen

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Poet - William Blake

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Poet - Elizabeth Bishop

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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

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Eternity

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grief

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path

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Poems

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Shunryu Suzuki

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Dreams of Awakening

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Hakuin's Praise Song 4 Part Series

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confusion

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May 29 2022

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darkness

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June 13 2022

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resistance

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june 17 2022

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Poet - Su Tung-po

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Egyptian love poem

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zen and earth consciousness

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january 8 2023

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January 29 2023

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Japan

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Life path

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February 12 2023

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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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surprises

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student and teacher

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spiritual journey

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2013 January Retreat

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koan history

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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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dao

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Summer 2019 retreat

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Summer 2019 sesshin

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Luopu

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Australia

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Daiyu

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Swampy Cree Wishing Bone Cycle - Moonlight

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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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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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gratitude

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time

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separation

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navigating covid-19

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beloved

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pandemic

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Naomi Nye

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creative process

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Author Lewis Hyde

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pure land

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I vow to set endless heartache to rest

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rather have nothing than something good

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risk

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Dalung

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Poet - Anna Swir

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evening words

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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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Entangling Vines

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Poet - Tony Hoagland

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Rhinoceros

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space

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Sept 6 2020

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lamp light

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not getting it

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teacher - Suzuki

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delight

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landscape

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Oct 20 2020

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moving in the dark

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Poet - Symborska

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Poet - Alexie Sherman

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caterhaugh

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thanksgiving

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Nov 29 2020

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Journey Into Awakening

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dedication

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midnight

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Alchemy

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Land of Demons

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Tortoise Mountain

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Green Glade of Meditation

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enjoy yourself

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The Ink Dark Moon

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opening the heart

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Rituals of love

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Tea Lady

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impossible tasks

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Kuon Shihyuan

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conversation

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Wuzu

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June 23 2021

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funerals

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rakusu

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heartache

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huineng

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Living down a level

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Difficulty

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frustration

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The Visible and Invisible Companionship of Animals

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zen

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translation

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Lineage

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David Hinton

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December 5 2021

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Hoofs & Horns

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Boxing Day

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war

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March 20 2022

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lostness

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clarity

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Mother Deep

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excerpt

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Reading

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True self

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not interwoven

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Shitou

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Dogen

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mistakes

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poet Su Dongpo

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Sept 4 2022

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Sept 18 2022

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destruction

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Kalpa fire

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dark materials

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Ballad of Tam Lin

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beginnings and endings

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paradox

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The great Silence at the Beginning Series

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January 22 2023

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Part 4

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ancient trees

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Poet - Denise Levertov

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a gift

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Winter Sesshin

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dark

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February 19 2023

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traveling

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March 26 2023

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navigating change

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The Red Thread

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Earthlyn Manuel

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Ruth Ozeki

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June 11 2023

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poet N Scott Momaday

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June 16 2023

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Buffalo talk

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june 25 2023

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Angela Center

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Santa Rosa Zen Center

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struggle

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women & zen

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2012 Autumn Moon Retreat

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consciousness

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poverty

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Shambhala Sun

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politics

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soul

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Doushuai

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video still

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installation art

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me

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Dao De Jing

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Bodhisattva

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If you turn things around you are like the Buddha.

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Live stream

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Jinniu

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January

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Mysterious Paths retreat

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Sayings of Linji

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purification

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About Enlightenment

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2014 October retreat

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St. Dorothy's Rest

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goblins

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koans for hard times

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who is hearing?

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no merit whatsoever

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Takagi Shrine

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Roshi

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At fault or not

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great doubt

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closing

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Bankei

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guitar

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emotions

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Odysseus

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confinement

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birth

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Bluegrass Zen

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hero's journey

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Book of Equanimity

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koan types

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loneliness

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Miaozong

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satori

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April 5 2020

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prajnatara

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May 3 2020

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Changsa

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companionship

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spaciousness

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noticing

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it's alive!

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otherness

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calling and answering

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beauty

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solitude

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isolation

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avoidance

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May 21 2020

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stillness

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songs

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poet - Tony Hoagland

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zen method

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societal unrest

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racist behaviors

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gardening

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certainty

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unrest

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demonstrations

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buddhas

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delusive thinking

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June 14 2020

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Poet - Anna Akhmatova

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June 27 2020

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thank you

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Duke Zhi

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July 19 2020

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Daodejing 6th verse

,

Always I Carry Light and Silence

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integration

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August 2 2020

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August 16 2020

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Summer sesshin

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guanyin oracle

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August 23 2020

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call and response

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Nakagawa

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Basho

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According with the Tao

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Indras Net

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Air

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what is your light?

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Hanging Lanterns at the Gates of the Autumn Temple

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true world

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Poet - Wallace Stevens

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Immersion

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ceremony

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Sept 27 2020

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transparence

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mixed media

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sailing

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journals

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Oct 1 2020

,

not for anything else

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Oct 3 2020

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Oct 2 2020

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withered tree

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sutra service

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ballad

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Celtic music

,

zen and music

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no rank

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poet - Wordsworth

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tree poem

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Suzuki

,

faery realm

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imaginative response

,

koan curriculum

,

Poet - Ikkyu

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Poet - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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solstice

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January 3 2021

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everything new

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primal darkness

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terra incognita

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solo

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writer Primo Levi

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brocade

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Feb 7 2021

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the current matter

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writer Garnette Cadogan

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Walking While Black

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Feb 14 2021

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naming

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Fall Sesshin 2013

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Zenosaurus 02

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anger

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April 21 2021

,

retreat experience

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Refuge Vows

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sandokai

,

humor

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Mother's Day

,

May 9 2021

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poet Szymborska

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Ta Lung

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Chronic Pain

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Sunday June 13 2021

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Fathers

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pure vows

,

Father's Day

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Sesshin Dharma Talk

,

June 24 2021

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June 25 2021

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synchronicity

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Four Noble Truths

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confidence

,

poet - Kay Ryan

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September 5 2021

,

unicorn

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tenderness

,

Spells

,

Turning into

,

Inquiring Mind magazine

,

shadow

,

koans and the arts

,

not holding back

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carl jung

,

the unconscious

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Spells for Passing Through Danger & Demons

,

Muzhou (Mujo)

,

author James Hillman

,

Animal Heart Mind

,

animals

,

Poet - Christopher Smart

,

traveler

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October 3 2021

,

The Little Prince

,

transmission

,

Peter Hershock

,

Zen Greats

,

mysterious tasks

,

poet Shiki

,

miscellaneous koans

,

Chan Poetry

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David Chadwick

,

Interview

,

February 20 2022

,

Journey Itself is Home

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Sho Sai Myo Kichijo Dharani

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February 5 2022

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Yantou

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February 27 2022

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saxophone

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March 6 2022

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Fall Sesshin 2021

,

Steve Walker Funeral

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treasures

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ancient knowledge

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April 17 2022

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April 24 2022

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indigenous ways

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May 1 2022

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poem

,

Mysterious

,

May 15 2022

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Enlightenment Series

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zen vs chan

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Song Dynasty

,

June 5 2022

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chaos times

,

reaching

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vulnerability

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self-consciousness

,

sharp and round

,

June 18

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june 26 2022

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Vessel of practice

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July 10 2022

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Whitsun wedding

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poet - Milosz

,

author Philip Larkin

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July 17

,

poet - Robert Creely

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June 14 2022

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front foot & back foot walking

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July 24 2022

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August 14 2022

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August 31 2022

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Milan Kundera

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Callasso

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august 28 2022

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Summertime

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In the Palace at the Blue Cliff

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Predicament Koan 2

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Sept 11 2022

,

Golden-haired Lion

,

emptiness of emptiness

,

Predicament Koan 3

,

October 6 2022

,

October 5 2022

,

GuoGo

,

October 24 2022

,

becoming a buddha

,

peach blossoms

,

Synesthesia

,

November 6 2022

,

November 28 2022

,

December 12 2022

,

extinction

,

what endures

,

a solitary boat

,

Morning Star

,

No tags awakening

,

January 30 2023

,

kamakura

,

February 1 2023

,

Death Poems

,

Xiangyan

,

finding home

,

way-seeking mind

,

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

,

Issan Dorsey

,

March 12 2023

,

lack

,

coping

,

dogs

,

march 18 2023

,

metaphor

,

ocean

,

polynesia

,

turbulence

,

navigator Tupaia

,

great forces

,

Chateaubriand

,

teacher and student

,

Tiger

,

Lion

,

March 27 2023

,

Indigenous practices

,

shamanism

,

cave

,

death & dying

,

hospice

,

April 24 2023

,

Kuhn

,

birds

,

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

,

may 14 2023

,

uniting

,

May 21 2023

,

Tourist

,

Ocean Vuong

,

January 31 2021

,

May 29 2023

,

Time Being

,

Book of Form & Emptiness

,

writing

,

racism

,

Kyoto

,

May 28 2023

,

June 4 2023

,

translucence

,

Yaoshan

,

ox herding

,

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

,

Great fish Kun

,

mysterious devices

,

Record of Dongshan

,

being carried

,

July 16 2023

,

community

,

tradition

,

August 7 2023

,

Lazy

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author Martin Amis

,

Standing at the Blue Cliff

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Q & A

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work

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self nature

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culture

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privacy

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lists

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Ruther Fuller Sasaki

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2015 January Sesshin

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problems

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decisions

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decision making

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curiosity

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meeting a face from long ago

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self-deception

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puppets

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waiting

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Lama Yeshe

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depression

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2013 Santa Sabina Retreat

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Buddha's Dream

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Cloud Gate

,

slideshow

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2013 July Retreat

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2016 Fall Sesshin

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Fall 2017 Sesshin

,

Chogyam Trungpa

,

spirit

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essays

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2006

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blog posts

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1998

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Teisho Winter Sesshin

,

Baizhang's Fox

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journaling

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sculpture

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walking meditation

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paths

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mantras

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october

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scented grass

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Wu Wei

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Mount Madona

,

John Tarrant

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David Weinstein

,

Jon Joseph

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Daoism & Zen

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Monday Night Talk

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Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center

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Robert Aitken

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Golden Wind Retreat

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Maitreya

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stop the war

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who are we together?

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lead off batter

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sambhogakaya

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koan categories

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SRCZC Talk

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Vimalakirti

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moon-like beauty

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Nov. SRCZC 2019

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Dawei

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Jesse Cardin

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Gateless Gate

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March 2020

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quarantine

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smallest things

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neighbors

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our times

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April1 -1-2020

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April 7th 2020

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April 12

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April 2 2020

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Bluegrass Zen

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gestational time

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April 17

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April 9 2020

,

April 13 2020

,

South Mountain

,

April 19

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disruption

,

denial

,

departure

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Issa's Story

,

BCR

,

the tea shop lady

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April 26 2020

,

Keui-shan

,

April 24 2020

,

partner

,

illumination

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female

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Miaozong's Dharma Interview

,

zen nun

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dragons

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grace

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bodhidharma's teacher

,

watou

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Gizou

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why?

,

unexpected questions

,

April 27 2020

,

Earth Day

,

environmental

,

April 30 2020

,

connectivity vs stillness

,

Yao Mountain

,

Seung Sahn

,

korean teacher

,

emptiness & form

,

magic

,

May 10 2020

,

Ritchie Domingue

,

Amyrillis 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

,

Tea Shack Lady

,

Lindworm Tale

,

Master Crag

,

belonging

,

no-gate gateway

,

May 14 2020

,

where are you coming from?

,

May 18 2020

,

May 19 2020

,

wanting

,

May 20 2020

,

love & trust

,

Ekai

,

Mu-mon

,

movement

,

6th Ancestor

,

May 22 2020

,

David Byrne

,

May 25 2020

,

step by step

,

stories

,

bardos

,

pilgrim

,

May 24 2020

,

May 6 2020

,

liberation

,

Rilke

,

opposition

,

stinginess

,

scarcity

,

May 26 2020

,

May 31 2020

,

from the very beginning

,

nothing has been withheld

,

measuring

,

June 1 2020

,

dilemna

,

distress

,

Sandalmaker Muzou

,

civil unrest

,

June 4 2020

,

only a dream

,

improv

,

fun

,

creating a “me"

,

good/bad

,

do the opposite

,

police

,

Poem - Ocean Vuong

,

Neruda poem

,

ideas

,

what remains?

,

discomfort

,

Shituo

,

destabilizing

,

Chan history 8thc

,

no fixed position

,

protests

,

interconnectedness

,

off course

,

juneteenth

,

June 21 2020

,

border

,

Poet - Albert Rios

,

disembodied

,

June 16 2020

,

Poet - Jusef Kaminyaka

,

July 5 2020

,

Dosteovsky

,

faults

,

Poet - Alberto Rios

,

Poem - The Dangerous Shirt

,

July 28 2020

,

crack gardening

,

small treasures

,

Mistress District Fan

,

Poet - Tabor

,

Poet - Takahashi

,

well

,

the wind blows hard through the pines

,

Shishan

,

July 26 2020

,

shunyata or emptiness

,

poet - Jimenez

,

things are not as they seem

,

nor are they otherwise

,

July 7 2020

,

July 15 2020

,

counting

,

Lanka Batara 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

,

Kamakura Zendo

,

June 25 2020

,

Du Fu

,

out of nowhere

,

no trace

,

aug 9 2020

,

Buma Devi

,

Layman Pang & Daughter Ling Zhao

,

strawberry parable

,

2014 Summer Sesshin

,

what am I

,

embodying koans

,

milk maid

,

pathos

,

July 11

,

Santa Sabina

,

Sutra of Endless Life

,

Hua Tou

,

shaggy-dog koans

,

life of the Buddha

,

ferry boat

,

Poet - Nazim Hikmet

,

Poet - Lucille Clifton

,

Poet - Chana Bloch

,

FAQ - KALPA

,

searching

,

Flower Garland Sutra

,

lamps

,

breath

,

August 30 2020

,

lamp

,

Fall

,

August 9 2020

,

visual

,

direct realization

,

Yakong

,

Green Mountain

,

hiding the loot in your pocket

,

outside the teaching

,

boat of compassion

,

elements

,

Sept 13 2020

,

teacher - Hirada

,

great change

,

one finger zen

,

Heavenly Dragon

,

Poet - Bai Juyi

,

Poet - Meng Hao-Jan

,

story of koto player

,

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

,

Aug 26 2020

,

Poet - Thomas Transtromer

,

Poet - Marie Howe

,

Poet - Nanao Sakaki

,

lightness

,

Sesshin Welcome

,

collage

,

papr

,

ink

,

ink on paper

,

blessings

,

paper

,

Heads of Practice

,

chasing

,

relaxing

,

Oct. 4 2020

,

Oct. 1-4 2020

,

joy on the roads

,

Four Green Fields

,

Oct. 6 2020

,

Oct. 12 2020

,

Oct 18 2020

,

Tang Dynasty

,

Poet - Wisława Szymborska

,

Miriam's Waltz

,

Oct 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

,

Oct 27 2020

,

Oct 25 2020

,

ghosts

,

Ghost River

,

courage

,

legend

,

faeryland

,

On the Banks of the Ghost River

,

Halloween

,

commentaries

,

Nov 8 2020

,

post election

,

wild places

,

losing everything

,

comments

,

experience

,

Nov 30 2020

,

leftovers

,

increments

,

Jim Harrison

,

meditation as art

,

Avalokiteshvara Sutra

,

Poem - Searching for the Dharma

,

Poet - Shu Yin

,

Dec 13 2020

,

modesty

,

Poet - Margaret Atwood

,

Dec 20 2020

,

Poet - Mary Oliver

,

Poet - Robert Frost

,

Poet - Wendell Berry

,

Vassilisa

,

Christmas eve

,

ceasefire

,

Dec 27 2020

,

guanyins

,

silent night

,

winter tale

,

shared suffering

,

covid holidays

,

poet - Muriel Rukeyser

,

wonder

,

thanks

,

Jan 24 2021

,

Vermeer

,

moments

,

cuckoo

,

Poet - Adrienne Rich

,

Poet - Jack Gilbert

,

Poet - Seamus Heaney

,

Poet - Tom McGrath

,

The purpose of your life

,

finding you own path

,

Feb 1 2021

,

doing the impossible

,

trust in your light

,

poet Yousef Koumenyaka

,

Wumen Huikai

,

worry

,

Sengcan

,

Xinxin Ming

,

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

,

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 Mahashi

,

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

,

Case 94

,

April fools

,

Weeds

,

Herbs

,

8th Oxherding picture

,

Changqin

,

composer John Cage

,

question mark

,

Free & Easy Wandering

,

May 2 2021

,

musician Bob Marley

,

Changsha

,

scented grasses

,

Cases

,

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 - Synchronicity

,

Song- Oh What a Beautiful City

,

June 22 2021

,

David Parks

,

Great Masters of the Blue Cliff

,

manifestation

,

Shambhala Sun 2008

,

Open Mind

,

March 23-26 2017

,

Special

,

According with the Dao

,

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 2

,

July 25 2021

,

Danxia

,

2004

,

little me

,

Dhammapada

,

resentment

,

bitterness

,

poet John Milton

,

desire

,

distraction

,

the nature of mind

,

poet T.S. Eliot

,

not the wrong life

,

spaceship

,

placebo

,

september 11

,

poet Santoka

,

writer Joseph Conrad

,

poet William Merwynn

,

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

,

poet juan ramón jimenez

,

molasses jacket

,

writer Alberto Rios

,

Blood soul

,

August

,

September 26 2021

,

Poet - William Merwyn

,

author Dante

,

Inferno

,

Art of meditation

,

October 10 2021

,

October 17 2021

,

Saint Exupery

,

Layman Pang & Daughter Lingzhao

,

Pang family

,

zero

,

Poem - Yellow Crane Pavilion

,

Santoka

,

The Hermitage Among Them

,

Drenched

,

Your awakening

,

November 1 2021

,

Buddhism & AI

,

Thomas Kirchner

,

Record of Linji

,

Red Pine

,

Bill Porter

,

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

,

Bill Red Pine Porter

,

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

,

Podcast

,

Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation

,

January 2022

,

Yongjia's Song of Enlightenment

,

February 2022

,

february 13 2022

,

Chant against danger evil demons

,

February 4 2022

,

February 2 2022

,

Shuefang

,

My heart is not at rest

,

snow

,

Xuefeng

,

Busy mind

,

My mind is not at rest

,

Opening Ceremony

,

February 1 2022

,

Winter Silence Moonlight Snow

,

L. Ferlinghetti

,

The Changing Light

,

March 13 2022

,

PZI Sutras

,

March 12 2022

,

Dante

,

Lingyun

,

February 28 2022

,

lost cities

,

March 13

,

March 27 2022

,

Secret Affinities

,

Peter Coyote

,

March 28 2022

,

Amnesty

,

Vows as Koans

,

16 bodhisattva vows

,

October 1

,

June 28

,

Leonard Cohen

,

January 17

,

January 16

,

Susan Murphy

,

Honji

,

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

,

Free & Easy Wandering Series

,

in your life

,

translating

,

May 22 2022

,

Puhua

,

expression

,

transformative

,

release

,

Juzhi

,

bearing it?

,

bears

,

mirror

,

June 13

,

being stuck

,

June 27 2022

,

Santa Sabina Center

,

search

,

where is?

,

Tarrantworks

,

curriculum

,

koanville

,

Morning Talk

,

being in the life you have

,

crimes wiped away

,

zazen

,

respect

,

Kuon Yamada

,

circle

,

exercise

,

presence

,

possibilities

,

universe pouring through

,

exhaustion

,

Decheng

,

waking up together

,

dread

,

full feeling

,

disturbance

,

the path

,

bright & dark

,

Dark forces

,

July 3

,

June 17

,

duality

,

teaching

,

June 16 2022

,

Daiwu

,

Galaxies

,

Jizo

,

Sept 26 2022

,

September 18 2022

,

end of the universe

,

Sept 25 2022

,

October 4-9 2022

,

Door After Door Opening inside

,

acappella

,

October 30

,

Jianyuan

,

Ancestry

,

letting go

,

All Hallows Eve

,

making a self

,

poet Nanao Sakaki

,

Nanyue

,

author Gerald Murnane

,

Jeffrey Mishlove

,

poet

,

June 2022

,

The Great Way

,

poet George Bilgere

,

poet Tomas Transtromer

,

prajnaparamita

,

I Ching

,

Buddha's Life Story

,

Crag Called Empty One

,

Silent Illumination

,

HInton

,

December 4 2022

,

Dalong

,

The Great Silence at the Beginning

,

nameless

,

trusting the silence

,

remembering

,

5 minutes

,

April 8

,

December 3 2022

,

story

,

koan story

,

Published

,

HOP Welcome

,

A flower twirled

,

No tags A flower twirled

,

Maralung

,

Part 2

,

Research on koan history

,

ancient tree

,

blocked

,

spiral path

,

tock

,

field of knowledge

,

coming into light

,

The Gift

,

Genjokoan

,

gift economy

,

February 5 2023

,

art card

,

scorn

,

getting it wrong

,

not having the wrong life

,

getting lost

,

hermits

,

sudden awakening

,

song man

,

doughnuts

,

lay people

,

mountain poems

,

iron cliffs

,

silver mountains

,

wildness

,

wild

,

Li Bai

,

poet Han Shan

,

Healing is Like a Kiss

,

dog

,

anxiety

,

delusive wisdom

,

Little Prince

,

Healing Is Like Kissing

,

panic

,

Daishin

,

faith

,

effort

,

nothing to do

,

Ku'ling legend

,

Socrates

,

touch

,

nearness

,

A cappella

,

July 18 2021

,

gate

,

dolphin

,

bird

,

goose

,

tyger

,

elephant

,

buffalo

,

donkey

,

monkey

,

ox

,

ox-herding pictures

,

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

,

your light

,

solitary brightness

,

be the host

,

no barriers

,

being curious

,

What is it?

,

poet Buson

,

including

,

poet Jane Kenyon

,

body

,

adrift

,

hell

,

crisis

,

exile

,

initiation

,

shelter

,

burning house

,

homeless

,

grass hut

,

leaving home

,

last words

,

bardo

,

great matter

,

Heraclitus

,

Dasui

,

passion

,

meeting difficult

,

ink drawings

,

artwork

,

Great Silence at the Beginning: Homecoming Kama’aina

,

Child of the Land

,

not doing

,

gathering

,

author Martin Amos

,

Byron Katie

,

Stephen Mitchell

,

Book discussion

,

The Mind at Home

,

June 19 2023

,

leaving

,

dharmakaya

,

body of reality

,

great silence

,

june 12 2023

,

Fox life

,

Intractability

,

creatures of the summer dawn

,

October 18 2020

,

the absolute

,

zha

,

Dog koan

,

fox roshi

,

dumbling

,

simple son

,

fairytale

,

Golden Bird

,

Writer - Mark Dotey

,

Writer - Pico Iyer

,

July 9 2023

,

Brothers Grimm

,

Grimms' 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

,

inquiry

,

feeling the time

,

sheet music

,

white ox

,

here-ness

,

poet Gerald Stern

,

being on the path

,

August 20 2023

,

burden

,

August 27 2023

,

August Series

,

Poet - Ocean Vuong

,

Frank Ostaseski

,

Lazy Summer Afternoons

,

resting

,

September 11 2023

,

September 17 2023