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Into the Scars of the Burning: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2023/05/06)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Into the Scars of the Burning: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2023/05/06)
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Even when there is really clear awakening, that awakening is useless until it’s turned toward suffering.

Liberative Confession and Repentance: Audio Dharma Talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/04/29)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Liberative Confession and Repentance: Audio Dharma Talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/04/29)
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What I don’t look at, what I will not face, runs my life. From a bodhisattva perspective, denial is a disaster.

The Essential Art of Zazen: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case (2023/04/15)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
The Essential Art of Zazen: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case (2023/04/15)
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We are trying to wake up to that activity of how grasping creates the sense of self that we think we need to walk through life.

Freedom as Well-being: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/04/08)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Freedom as Well-being: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/04/08)
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We do want people to be able to be whole, to live the full expressions of their lives, to be able to have choices about what happens. And to be able to be free in a collective way of freedom where freedom means we are caring for one another.

Love First: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2023/04/01)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Love First: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2023/04/01)
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If we do not view and respond to every human being as a tender, vulnerable body deserving of our love, we are wrong.

The Fire to Wake Up: audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2023/03/25)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
The Fire to Wake Up: audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2023/03/25)
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Who am I in the midst of this fleeting life? How can I use myself? How can we all use ourselves? Because we are so special, each of us…

What are we here for?: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/03/18)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
What are we here for?: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/03/18)
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The dharma gives us the possibility to love the world and ourselves and one another. And also opens us to a further possibility of healing, of actually leaving the planet better than we found it. Like when we go camping, you know?

Spiritual Discipline: Audio Dharma Talk by Kaira Jewel Lingo (2023/03/04)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Spiritual Discipline: Audio Dharma Talk by Kaira Jewel Lingo (2023/03/04)
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It is really important where we put our attention—that is our power. That is what we’re cultivating in our spiritual discipline. Do we know where we’re putting our attention? Because we do have to choose.

Amid Crisis, Surrendering to Love: Audio Dharma Talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2023/02/25)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Amid Crisis, Surrendering to Love: Audio Dharma Talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2023/02/25)
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What do we rely on when we lose or are threatened by the loss of what we believe is critical for our well-being?

 

Being Together Differently: Audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/02/18)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Being Together Differently: Audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/02/18)
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We can endeavor together in cultivating that reverence and that clarity—in the midst of the darkness—to orient.

Grieving and Freedom: Audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/01/28)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Grieving and Freedom: Audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/01/28)
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So much of the harm that happens in the world is because people have not been supported to digest the pain that they have inherited, or have experienced, or carry.

Love, Not-knowing and Hope: Audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/01/21)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Love, Not-knowing and Hope: Audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/01/21)
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There are moments of disappointment and there are moments of unmet love and there are moments of loss, and these are all part of the pilgrimage and part of any real path.

Mountain Village and Capital City: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case (2023/01/14)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Mountain Village and Capital City: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case (2023/01/14)
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We are not going to escape our karma somehow by leaving it in a storage space here [in the city] and going to the monastery [in the mountains].

The Dharma Gate of Repose and Bliss: Audio Dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/12/10)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
The Dharma Gate of Repose and Bliss: Audio Dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/12/10)
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“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation”—it’s not a technique, a tool, it’s not something we do. It’s a living thing. It’s awakening. It’s Buddha’s sitting.

Of the Earth: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2022/12/03)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Of the Earth: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2022/12/03)
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I take seriously this mandate from the Buddha that we don’t hide from death and we don’t hide from illness.

Let things come and rest in your heart: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/11/19)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Let things come and rest in your heart: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/11/19)
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To carry the self forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forward and actualize the self is awakening.

Healing: audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2022/11/05)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Healing: audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2022/11/05)
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When we practice together as a sangha, this is a refuge we can take—to recognize that all our ancestors are in this room, literally, right now.

This Distress is Worth Recounting: audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2022/10/29)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
This Distress is Worth Recounting: audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2022/10/29)
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We need to collectively start to care for those forces, so they don’t become monsters of continued colonial oppression, internally and externally.