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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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.
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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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.
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.
The Elephant Look: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/10/22)
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In the pain of loss, it can be tempting to turn away from love or to give up on love and connection. So, finding the willingness, and courage, and capacity to be with a lot of grief, and loss, and pain, it’s part of the path of love.
Potentiality: audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/10/15)
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You are the whole of the universe locked into a karmic thread. And I know that not everybody can see your eternity. I know that not everybody can see that you are Buddha. I know that not everybody can see that you are infinite. I know that not everybody can see that your heart is as big as the universe. And I know that you have to live a life where others can’t see you that way.
Healing and Vow: audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/10/14)
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Sometimes, quieting feels like a thousand demons screaming. But, I promise you, it’s quieting. The quieting of the body and mind releases all the things that are disallowing its settling.
Conversation with Sally Chang and Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2022/09/23)
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A conversation with Sally Chang, Chief Instructor of Evergreen Taiji Academy, and BZC dharma teacher Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin. This conversation was offered as part of a Qigong Fundraiser Workshop for BZC, offered by Sally Chang at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn in September 2022.
About Sally Chang
Sally Chang is Chief Instructor of Evergreen Taiji Academy. She is a Teacher, Acupuncturist, and 30+ year practitioner of Daoist Wisdom Arts including Qigong, Taiji, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Sally’s teachings focus on cultivating the innate capacity for healing; and she is known for her warm, focused presence.
Life-Affirming Practice: audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2022/09/17)
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For us to reclaim our humanity and to come back in alignment with our wholeness, this too we have to do together—in relationship, in society, in our cultural meetings. That’s our small project. [Laughs]. That is, really, the project of liberation.
Xin Xin Ming: If You Can Be Like This - Audio dharma talk by Kidō Ian Case (2022/08/13)
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Xin Xin Ming: If You Can Be Like This, Why Worry About Not Finishing?
If I can give up the idea of what completing the talk would be, then I would be in a very different relationship with the task of preparing the talk, giving the talk, responding to questions. All the energy that was previously bundled up on holding and maintain that view is now released.