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   Rev. Margaret Clyde talks briefly about the Five Hindrances, focusing her talk specifically on the hindrance of Sloth and Torpor. The Five Hindrances are: sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt. These are five traditional hindrances that are said to get in the way of our Buddhist practice.  YouTube: https://youtu.be/88uXRsGCCDA Twitter: @shastaabbey  

Rev. Jisho Perry talks about karma and its implications for us in our lives and our practice, specifically, how we can do something about cleansing it. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in May of 2021. YouTube: N/A Twitter: @shastaabbey

Rev. Amanda Robertson gives a dharma talk after the annual festival ceremony of Manjusri Bodhisattva, who is the personification of wisdom  in Mahayana Buddhism, offering some reflections on wisdom. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday April 2, 2023.  YouTube: https://youtu.be/RGE4mPV_wjs Twitter: @shastaabbey 

   Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, talks about the importance of practicing equanimity and offers advice on how to develop this skill in our daily life. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday March 26, 2023. YouTube: https://youtu.be/0JJ9qbEP2Jc  Twitter: @shastaabbey

   Rev. Master Daishin Yalon talks about the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra after the annual Sunday ceremony dedicated to Samantabhadra. He also uses an old song 'Desert Pete' as a spring board to talk about thinking of others. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday March 5, 2023. YouTube: https://youtu.be/L0rSXwA_nGQ Twitter: @shastaabbey

   Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, talks about making vows and how to approach this practice in our lives. She shares her thoughts about what vows 'are' and 'are not', and how we can hold them gently and not be 'overwhelmed' by them should we choose to incorporate them into our practice. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday March 12, 2023. ...

   Rev. Master Ando Mueller talks about the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (O.B.C.), which is the umbrella organization for the Buddhist order of which Shasta Abbey is a part. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday March 19, 2023.  YouTube: https://youtu.be/OttH_2eddvg Twitter: @shastaabbey

Hey Everyone!     This is Rev. Allard, I am the monk here at Shasta Abbey in charge of uploading talks for the podcast. I want to thank you for your support of this project to make the Dharma more accessible to people and hope that you continue to find it helpful and nourishing. Please continue to share, like, subscribe, and especially leave reviews in whatever podcast app you are using.     I am...

Rev. Allard Kieres offers some thoughts about celibacy and its importance for the monastic life.  NOTE: Rev. Allard refers to 'Rev. Master Oswin' during the talk; this monk is his teacher.   Twitter: @shastaabbey YouTube: N/A

Rev. Master Jiyu continues with her lecture series on meditation and Soto Zen. She talks about various aspects of Buddhist religious practice and how we can navigate the difficulties of training in order to prove the Buddha's teachings true for ourselves.  These talks are dated 1979.  Link to talk#1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2046795/episodes/11666095 -it was uploaded Nov, 9 2022 for purpose...

Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, gives a talk after the Festival of the Buddha's Parinirvana (death). Rev. Master Meian talks about what it is that 'dies' and what it is that 'does not die'; and how we can find this true for ourselves in our own training. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday February 26, 2023. Twitter: @shastaabbey YouTube: https:...

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck talks about the monastic practice of living on alms and details about its origin during the Buddha's time. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday February 19, 2023. YouTube: https://youtu.be/944ifNuYGDg Twitter: @shastaabbey

Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, shares her thoughts on compassion and how it influences our Buddhist practice. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on February 12, 2023. YouTube: N/A Twitter: @shastaabbey 

Rev. Margaret Clyde shares her thoughts from her study of a chapter in a book called 'The Sound of Silence' by Ajahn Sumedho. The focus being what we perceive as our 'identity' and how this is not the concrete thing we think it is. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on February 5, 2023. Twitter: @shastaabbey YouTube: https://youtu.be/27hL42zhEdM

Rev. Daishin Yalon talks about training and the many misconceptions we can have about it. There is a saying that, 'we don't do the training, the training does us'. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in August of 2019. Twitter: @shastaabbey  YouTube: video N/A

Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck looks at gratitude as one of the most important aspects of life and training. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on June 12, 2022. YouTube: https://youtu.be/ua1rovHXgdc Twitter: @shastaabbey

Rev. Jisho Perry talks about seeing through the 'unreality of self'. When we let the self dissolve, we can see ' That which remains'. A monk once said, "You definitely exist. But don't make the mistake of thinking that you are real." This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in April of 2016.   YouTube: n/a Twitter: @shastaabbey

Rev. Master Meian Elbert shares some general thoughts about monastic life. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in July 2022.  YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jqep4YOcq2w         Also, a friend of Shasta Abbey did a short documentary which can be found at  https://youtu.be/FN--J66rQLk This link contains only the part that had Shasta Abbey. The documentary featured other monastic traditions as well. 

Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, talks about the spiritual practice of listening. 

Rev. Amanda Robertson gives a Dharma Talk about her recent experience with a serious atrial fibrillation episode. She uses a poem from Dogen's 'Instructions to the Chief Cook', which can be found in 'Zen is Eternal Life' by Rev. Master Jiyu, to describe the ever present opportunity we have of engaging fully with our daily life without fear no matter what the conditions. Yo...

Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, talks about how from the Buddhist perspective the universe is full of light. She references the Avatamsaka Scripture, which is one of the main scriptures in Mahayana Buddhism. She encourages us, however, not to get caught in the duality that 'light' is good and 'darkness' is bad. In reality both are necessary.  YouTube: https://...

The late Rev. Chosei Swann gives a Sunday dharma talk on Founder's Day 2015. Founder's Day is traditionally celebrated on the first of November and honors a temple's 'Founder', the monk who started the temple. Rev. Chosei explains why Shasta Abbey's founder is not Rev. Master Jiyu, but actually her teacher Keido Chisan Koho, or referred to as Koho Zenji in the talk. R...

This is a talk from a retreat that Rev. Shiko Rom led in June of 2020.  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeL4RR5kV-E Twitter: @shastaabbey

Rev. Allard introduces a series that will be called 'Exploring Monastic Life'. He lists and briefly talks about some unique topics that pertain to monastic life. Shasta Abbey hopes to record full talks on these and other topics that deal with monastic life specifically as a lead in to an Exploring Monastic Life Retreat that the monastery hopes to host in summer 2023.  -general monastery...

Rev. Daishin Yalon talks about the proverb, "The church is near but the road is icy. The tavern is far: I will walk carefully" as a way of describing our own relationship to training and cautions us to watch out for distractions. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday November 27, 2022. -video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyWJ7_v0n0 -twitter: @shastaabbey