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00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:11:19 - Exert from 'Shift into Freedom' - (10 minutes) 00:22:12 - 'Shift' Exercise Guided by Loch Kelly - ( 7 minutes) 00:29:14 - Reflections

Book Reference Sailing Home ~ Norman Fischer https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Home-Odyssey-Navigate-Pitfalls/dp/1556439962

00:00:20 - Dharma Talk 'The End of Suffering' 00:26:33 - Reflections

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2024-09-23 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 26 Yangshan Points to Snow | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

Links for two sources quoted from: Walking Around ~ Pablo Neruda https://poets.org/poem/walking-around Everything Is Enlightenment ~Joan Sutherland https://www.lionsroar.com/everything-is-enlightenment/

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:05:13 - Qualities that help to guide our actions - 1. Brahmavihara's: Loving kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic joy, Equanimity 00:05:35 - 2 - A sense of Humour. 3 - Honesty. 4 - A sense of Curiosity. 5 - Independence/Agency. 6 - A sense of self worth. 7 - Creativity 00:07:04 - Joel offers an Experiment - 00:08:21 - Participants Write for 3 Minutes -Choose one of these qua...

What Joel offered was adapted from “Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides" Author Geoffrey L. Cohen Buddhist underlying values: • Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity • Sense of Humor • Honesty • Bringing a sense of curiosity and learning to life’s challenges • Independence or agency and a sense of self-worth • Creativity

00:00:26 - Jon-Eric outlines the talk 00:04:16 - The Skandhas - a buddhist framework for the mind 00:11:41 - The Kleshas (also known as Mental afflictions) 00:17:01 - Hakomi 00:20:57 - Guided Meditation - 8 minutes 00:27:52 - Jon-Eric Invites Reflections

2024-09-10 I Inquiry I So What I Trudy Johnston by Appamada

2024-09-09 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 24 Look Out for the Snake | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

00:00:26 - Robin opens the Intensive - ‘Trust in Mind’ 00:03:53 - Hsin Hsin Ming 00:13:41 - Sitting and just noticing what arises 00:16:02 - Reflections 00:21:27 - Robin reads the Hsin Hsin Ming - and Joel reads the Translation of the Hsin Hsin Ming 00:25:21 - Dharma Activity - Robin invites people, over the next few days, to write their own translation of the Hsin hsin Ming 00:33:01 - Robin descr...

2024-09-06 | Day 2/Part 2 | Intensive - Trust in Mind | Sandra Medina Bocangel 00:00:26 - Dharma Talk 00:45:55 - Dharma Activity - In Pairs - 3 minutes to sit in silence - 5 minutes writing - 5 minutes each sharing - Write about any situation, with any particular person, or yourself, an encounter, and write about feelings thoughts, sensations in your body - During the sharing, just notice what is...

00:00:26 - Robin begins - Trust in Mind O0:05:55 - Continuing with - Hsin Hsin Ming Translation - Robin and Joel 00:31:33 - Robin Offers a Dharma Activity - writing your own version/interpretation of a segment of the Hsin Hsin Ming 00:35:42 - Participants write for 20 minutes 00:35:51 - Robin invites Participants to share what they wrote 00:37:58 - 1st Sharing/interpretation of a segment of the Hs...

00:00:26 - Sandra Opens up day 3 - Trust in Mind 00:04:08 - Sandra Read the Hsin Hsin Ming 00:31:10 - Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen Author - Mu Soeng 00:32:28 - Dharma Activity - 3 minutes of silence - write for 10 minutes - 5 mins sharing (in pairs) - Write from a place of compassion and equanimity - noticing how your body feels

00:00:26 - Robin opens up the final talk of this intensive - Trust in Mind 00:10:40 - Robin and Joel Choral Read Hsin Hsin Ming with Robin’s Interpretation 00:18:01 - Robin Offers a dharma Activity - 3 minutes to sit - 15 minutes to write - and 5 minutes each to share (in pairs) - sharing what you wrote, or any experience you’ve had throughout the intensive - what you are feeling in your body 00:1...

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Join us on Monday nights: https://appamada.org/main-calendar Luzu Faces the Wall: Case: Whenever Luzu saw a monk coming, he would immediately face the wall. Nanquan, hearing of this, said, "I usually tell them to realize mastery before the empty aeon, to understand before the buddhas appear in the world; still I haven't found one or a half. Luzu that way will go on till the year of ass.”

00:00:20 - Dharma Talk - Trust 00:24:49 - Laurie Offers a Dharma Activity 00:25:54 - Participants sit for 3 minutes, then share for 2 minutes each (Groups of 3) ( minutes total) 00:26:06 - Laurie Invites Feedback

“Losing the Trail” ~Noah Charney. These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes. Yale University Press; New Haven and London: 2023. Pages 25-26. Following the trail is the easiest way to be lost. Sure, that trail might takes us to a preordained destination faster, but we’ll have no idea where we are when we get there. While we’re on the trail, we lose track of what’s around us and where...

2024-08-26 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 22 Yantou's “Bow and Shout” | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

Dharma Teachings for us today: • Suffering and dissatisfaction are woven into the fabric of life - of losing and finding/breathing in - breathing out • Freedom and beauty are equally woven into the fabric of life - of losing and finding/breathing in - breathing out • The liberating realizations of the Buddha ~ everything changes and everything is interdependent - help us understand this weaving an...

2024-08-19 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 21 Yunyan Sweeps the Ground | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

2024-08-18 | Dharma Talk | Great Expectations | Ann Lipscomb 00:00:26 - Dharma Talk - Great expectations 00:20:09 - Ann Offers the Dharma Activity 00:22:41 - Participants get into pairs for 22 minutes - 2 minute sit - 5 minutes to write - 15 minutes to share 00:22:51 - Ann Invites Feedback

Beautyland: A Novel: Marie-Helen Bertino