Michael Stone opens a silent retreat talking about seeing everything as medicine and how meditation…
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Beginner’s Mind 6: Throw Up and Bow
Bow How do we bow? Our hands are in anjali mudra. Anjali is a Sanskrit…
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Beginner’s Mind 5: How to Sit is How to Act
Just Die Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is a collection of talks given by Shunryu Suzuki…
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Beginner’s Mind 4: Grateful for the Weeds
Below the belt is uddiyana bandha. Above the belt is pizza. When you sit you’ll…
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Beginner’s Mind 3: Appreciation
Isn’t that a wonderful and simple thing? Brown rice practice. Simple. Nothing added. Are we…
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Beginner’s Mind 2: Spare Time (Hahahaha)
Zen can be quite a performance sometimes. Especially when the teacher is letting one fireball…
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Beginner’s Mind 1: Taking Care of Each Other
Prologue to Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki In the beginner’s mind there are…
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My Practice, My Snake
The Buddha famously compared his teachings to a snake. A snake? My dharma, he said,…
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The Secret of Pleasure
1st Prelude Sometimes my unconscious puts the breaks on and says: let’s stop here. For…
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Burning House: Betrayal as Innovation by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara
The Lotus Sutra is the most treasured text of East Asian Buddhism – in China,…
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