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

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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.

Choosing Kindness: Audio Dharma Talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2023/02/04)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Choosing Kindness: Audio Dharma Talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2023/02/04)
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We don’t know that we have a choice—we can choose to be kind, we can choose the path of kindness.

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

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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.

The Elephant Look: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/10/22)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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.

Repose & Bliss: audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/09/10)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Repose & Bliss: audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/09/10)
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Rest is not possible if it’s framed individually. We have this kind of way of relating to rest right now that I feel is very capitalist.

Xin Xin Ming: If You Can Be Like This – Audio dharma talk by Kidō Ian Case (2022/08/13)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
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.