in the Cloud

2025's First Dharma Talk 08.01.2025 39:05 ↓

Welcome in the new year with this Teisho offered by Mountain Cloud's Guiding Teacher, Valerie Forstman. To see what Mountain Cloud has planned for the upcoming year, visit www.mountaincloud.org/newyear/

"Darkness and Light Reveal Our True Nature" with Maria Reis Habito 08.01.2025 31:58 ↓

During the season of Rohatsu, Solstice, Christmas and Hanukkha, Maria takes up the psalm of Isaiah: "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light." This psalm becomes a starting point to reflect on how darkness and light feed our practice of seeing our true nature.

Breakthroughs Part 2 with Henry Shukman 26.11.2024 40:06 ↓

At this time when many of us may be feeling daunted and uncertain, we gather in the zendo to tap into our shared deeper nature that meditation can open up, drawing sustenance and new perspectives from it. In this talk, Henry explores breakthrough experiences — sudden shifts in how we understand and experience this life. They can show up in many forms, and in many areas, both personal and collectiv...

Poetry, Practice, and the Wild Ethics of Love: A Conversation with David Hinton 20.11.2024 1:19:04 ↓

David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy—all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking. This widely-acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from NEA and NEH, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translat...

Valerie Forstman: Zen's Subverting Impulse: Overturning the One 05.11.2024 39:15 ↓

This week's talk was offered by Mountain Cloud's Guiding Teacher, Valerie Forstman. It was recorded on October 31st at the Zendo in Sante Fe. Please consider supporting Mountain Cloud with a donation or becoming a member so we can continue to provide online programs such as this. Donations: https://www.mountaincloud.org/donate/ Become a member: https://www.mountaincloud.org/about/membership/ Check...

Kali Basman: Cultivating Wonder 29.10.2024 33:58 ↓

Kali invites us to examine the wide array of features that comprise "The Practice Field," the many aspects of our path of practice. She states that as a species we are quite proficient at ignoring our "shadow side of life," those parts of us that help inform the richness of the practice field. Through this avoidance of difficult experiences, we contribute to our own suffering. Kali suggests that,...