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Betrayal

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Julie Nelson speaks about how we can practice with betrayal, both by approaching feelings of having been betrayed as a Dharma Gate, and by considering whether inflicting “betrayal” could be in line with our Zen precepts. (October 23, 2021)

(Short) Choicelessness

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Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about cultivating a practice of being intimate with whatever is arising. (August 30, 2021)

(Short) Not Quite Broken Up Yet

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Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about how we practice in the midst of destruction. The text is from Joan Sutherland’s Acequias/Gates. (September 23, 2021)

(Short) Intimacy Renews Intimacy

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James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is Fasicle 52 of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. (September 22, 2021)

One Gains, One Loses

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Julie Nelson speaks about our thoughts of gain and loss, and right and wrong. The text is Case 26 of The Gateless Gate, “Fayan Points to the Bamboo Screens.” (September 18, 2021)

(Short) No Teachers of Zen

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Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk. What is the role of a teacher in Zen practice? (August 9, 2021)

(Short) On Just Wanting the Good Parts

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Julie Nelson gives an encouragement about just wanting to see or to have “the good parts,” including the good parts of ourselves. The text is a poem by Ikkyu. (August 19, 2021)

(Short) Liberation

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Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about the place of freedom from which we meet the exigencies of life. The text used is Kosho Uchiyama’s Opening the Hand of Thought. (July 29, 2021)

(Short) Cultivating the Empty Field

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James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is “The Field of Boundless Emptiness” from Cultivating the Empty Field by Hongzhi Zhengjue. (August 11, 2021)

My Deeds Are My Closest Companions

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Fran Ludwig speaks about keeping company with pain that has traveled from generation to generation. The text is “The Five Remembrances.” (July 31, 2021)