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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…

The Buddha famously compared his teachings to a snake. A snake? My dharma, he said,…

1st Prelude Sometimes my unconscious puts the breaks on and says: let’s stop here. For…

The Lotus Sutra is the most treasured text of East Asian Buddhism – in China,…

Today I want to speak to you about the koan, “Seizei, A Poor Monk.” Seizei,…

I would like to look at grasping and non-grasping and what I would call creative…

Can a parent leave their child alone without abandoning them? This unstructured and unintegrated state…

A conversation with Pat Rockman and Stephen Batchelor (May, 2011) Pat Rockman: I should probably…

I’m a Gestalt psychotherapist, Yoga practitioner and teacher, a meditator, and I run a space…

Notes on a talk given by Simone Moir at the Centre of Gravity on October…