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2024-04-02 I Inquiry I Nothing happening is a very good day I Trudy Johnson by Appamada

2024-03-26 I Inquiry I Are You Clear About Practice? I Flint Sparks by Appamada

Ordinary things are all Extra-Ordinary | Joel Barna 00:02:31 - A Reading from 'After Buddhism' by Stephen Batchelor 00:07:36 - Joel gives instructions on how to write a Pantoum Poem (Please see below) 00;11:56 - Joel’s Pantoum 00:13:18 - Joel explains how to format the 8 lines into a Pantoum 00:15:09 - Participants Write for 10 Minutes 00:15:19 - Instruction for Connecting Rooms/Groups 00:15:49 -...

The Depth in Practice group discusses Case 20: Dizang asked Fayan, "Where are you going?"// Fayan said, "Around on pilgrimage." // Dizang said, "What is the purpose of pilgrimage?" // Fayan said, "I don't know." // Dizang said, "Not knowing is most intimate." // Depth in Practice meets virtually at Appamada every week. Anyone is welcome to join the group! If you are interested in joining, please g...

The Depth in Practice group discusses Case 19: A monk asked Yunmen, “Not a single thought arises: is there any fault or not?” // Yunmen said, “Mt. Sumeru.” // [According to Jain cosmology, Mount Meru (or Sumeru) is at the center of the world surrounded by Jambūdvīpa, in the form of a circle forming a diameter of 100,000 yojans. (description from Wikipedia)] Depth in Practice meets virtually at App...

The Depth in Practice group continues discussing Case 18: A monk asks Zhaozho, "Does the dog have Buddha Nature?" // Zhaozho says, "Yes." // The monk says, "Since it has, why is it then in this skin bag?" // Zhaozho replies, "Although he knows better he deliberately transgresses." // Another monk comes along: "Does the dog have Buddha Nature?" // "No," Zhaozho says. (The Japanese word "Mu" means "...

Horizonless Intimacy Dear Friends, I captured this image as I took an early morning walk along the beach in Bray, Ireland (County Wicklow) this past Monday morning (7/28/08). I was looking across the Irish Sea as the sun made its way up through the clouds. If I would have been able to see beyond the horizon where the sea and the sky appear to meet, I would have found northern Wales on the other sh...

The Depth in Practice group discusses Case 18: A monk asks Zhaozho, "Does the dog have Buddha Nature?" // Zhaozho says, "Yes." // The monk says, "Since it has, why is it then in this skin bag?" // Zhaozho replies, "Although he knows better he deliberately transgresses." // Another monk comes along: "Does the dog have Buddha Nature?" // "No," Zhaozho says. (The Japanese word "Mu" means " no.") // T...

00:00:33 - Dharma Talk 00:02:43 - The Guest House This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out
for some n...

2024-03-15 |Day 1 | One Day+ Sit | The Hindrances | Joel Barna

2023-10-08 | Class 9 | Taking Up the Way of Supporting Life | With Joel Barna & Robin Bradford 00:00:26 - Joel Opens up the Meeting 00:02:20 - Joel Talks About the Precept ‘Taking Up the Way of Supporting Life and Not Killing’ 00:15:06 - Poem by David Whyte - No Path 00:17:43 - Joel Guides Us All Into Sitting for 10 Minutes 00:19:01 - Robin Talks About the Precept ‘I Vow to Take Up the Way of Supp...

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