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00:00:19 - Class 6 Begins 00:00:25 - Joel Weaves the Precept and Preliminaries Together 00:01:26 - Training in the The Preliminaries - Joel Describes These… 00:01:53 - The 1st Preliminary - The Rarity and Preciousness of Human Life 00:04:45 - The Inevitability of Death 00:05:29 - The Awesome and Indelible Power of Our Actions 00:12:27 - Joel Describes the Activity for the Connecting Rooms 00:14:43...

2024-03-12 I Inquiry I Nothing and Nobody I Flint Sparks by Appamada

00:00:26 - Joel Offers an Overview of the Class 00:03:11 - Sitting for 10 Minutes Offering Metta/Joel then Begins with the Precept ‘Speaking Truthfully’, and The 8 Fold Path’ 00:13:07 - Joel Invites Participants to Share their 'Recasting' of the Precept 'I Take Up the Way Of Speaking Truthfully 00:35:54 - Jessica Talks About Hakomi and how to Cultivate Loving Presence 00:47:09 - Joel Offers An Exe...

2023-02-02 | Class 1 | Precepts | Joel Barna 00:00:29 - Joel Gives Words of Gratitude, and Welcomes Everyone 00:02:34 - Please Pause Video Here if You'd Like to to Sit for 3 Minutes 00:02:48 - Joel Invites the Participants to Introduce Themselves 00:15:23 - Joel Offers an Overview Of the Class, Outlining the Offerings 00:17:48 - Ann Talks About The Verse of the Robe and Sewing - How Buddha's Robe...

00:00:27 - Dharma Talk 00:15:06 - Exercise - 1. Consider something that you struggled with (were stuck in for quite a while). 00:15:50 - 2. While you were suffering - Did you seek out for help? Or did you stay in solitude? 00:16:11 - 3. How did you deal with it? Did you separate from other people? 00:16:46 - 4. In retrospect, what helped most in getting through your suffering, and did being aroung...

Gateway to the Temple: Homage to Lahaina ~ Flint Sparks At the entry gate of every temple, a great bell waits. When struck, a deep resonant call is sent out, A powerful sound, but something closer to gravity, Invisibly pulling us across the threshold into a sacred space, Toward the promise of the perfected love we secretly long for; A divine love which is equally terrifying As it beautifully consu...

2024-03-03 | A reading written by Ed Browne ‘The Ten thousand Idiots’ | with Ann Lipscomb 00:00:27 - A reading from The Most Important Point: Zen Teachings of Edward Espe Brown ‘The Ten thousand Idiots’ 00:12:28 - Reading ends 00:13:55 - Ann opens up the floor for Questions/comments 00:39:50 - Announcements

2024-0-27 I Inquiry I En-Couragement I Trudy Johnson by Appamada

2024-02-20 I Inquiry I The glass is already broken I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada

2024-02-18 | Dharma Talk | 'Skillfull Means, Practice, and Mistakes | Ellen Hippard 00:00:20 - Dharma Talk 00:18:20 - Ellen Invites comments and reflections

2024-02-13 I Inquiry I I Took My Mind a Walk I Josh Gifford by Appamada

The Depth in Practice group discusses the following case: Fayan asked Xiushan, “A hairsbreadth's difference is as the distance between heaven and earth'-- how do you understand?” Xiushan said, “A hairsbreadth's difference is as the distance between heaven and earth.” Fayan said, “How can you get it that way?” Xiushan said, “I am just thus--what about you?” Fayan said, “A hairsbreadth's difference...

00:00:21 - Dharma Talk 00:28:25 - Meeting with Joel

2024-02-05 I Inquiry I Just Say Something! I Josh Gifford by Appamada

Depth in Practice discusses the following koan: Magu, ringed staff in hand, came to Zhangjing; he circled the meditation seat three times, shook his staff once, and stood there at attention. // Zhangjing said, Right, right.” // Magu also went to Nanquan, circled the meditation seat three times, shook his staff, and stood there at attention. // Nanquan said, “Wrong, wrong.” // Magu said, “Zhangjing...

The Depth in Practice group continues to discuss the following koan: "Where have you come from?" // Yangshan said, "From the rice field." // Guishan said, "How many people are there in the rice field?" // Yangshan thrust his hoe into the ground and stood with his hands folded on his chest. // Gusishan said, "There are a great number of people cutting thatch on the South Mountain." // Yangshan took...

The Depth in Practice group discusses the following koan: "Where have you come from?" // Yangshan said, "From the rice field." // Guishan said, "How many people are there in the rice field?" // Yangshan thrust his hoe into the ground and stood with his hands folded on his chest. // Gusishan said, "There are a great number of people cutting thatch on the South Mountain." // Yangshan took up his hoe...

00:00:26 - Robin Offers Teachings from. 'The Shamanic Bones of Zen' 00:20:07 - Robin Offers Instructions for the Connection Rooms: ‘In what ways, if any, have you experienced Zen practice as embodied, connecting to nature and ancestors, and/or mysterious and beyond the logical mind?’ 00:25:29 - Robin Invites Reflections and Comments The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mys...

2024-01-30 I Inquiry I Everyday Radiance I Flint Sparks by Appamada

Partipants spend a second week discussing Case 14, Attendant Huo Offers Tea: Attendant Huo asked Deshan, “Where have all the past saints gone?” // Deshan said, “What? What?” // Huo said, “I gave the command for an excellent horse like a flying dragon to spring forth, but there came out only a lame tortoise.” // Deshan was silent. // The next day, when Deshan came out of the bath, Huo served him te...

2024-01-28 | Way Seeking Mind Talk | Opening the Slammed Shut Door | Cassy ShoShin by Appamada

2024 -01-23 I Inquiry I Sacrifice in Practice I Flint Sparks by Appamada

2024-1-16 I Inquiry I Fully Grounded and Going Beyond I Flint Sparks by Appamada

2024-01-13 | Day 3 | Satipatthana Intensive | Joy and the Factors for Awakening | Joel Barna 00:00:26 - Joy and the Factors for Awakening 00:14:06 - Joel Offers An Activity - Please See below for Details 00:16:55 - Joel Invites Reflections in Response to the Exercise 00:26:19 - Joel Reads from Page 30 of the Chant Book - Instructions for Zazen 00:35:48 - Joel Invites Comments and Thoughts 00:40:04...

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk - Mental Formations 00:23:20 - Questions and Comments 00:33:23 - Joel Offers the Next Exercise - (See Below for Instructions) Exercise - Total time 20 minutes: Sit for 5 minutes. At first, pay attention to your mental states and take note when they involve either grasping (lust) or aversion (anger). Note how such states show up in the body. For the last minute or so turn you...