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Xin Xin Ming: A Reflection of the Cosmos – Audio dharma talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2022/08/12)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Xin Xin Ming: A Reflection of the Cosmos - Audio dharma talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2022/08/12)
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Xin Xin Ming: A Reflection of the Cosmos

My fear is not a failure. It’s some part that hasn’t learned to trust yet. It’s just there. And it’s not self-generating. It’s arising out of what I feel to be generations.

Xin Xin Ming: Using Mind to Cultivate Mind – Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/08/11)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Xin Xin Ming: Using Mind to Cultivate Mind - Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/08/11)
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Xin Xin Ming: Using Mind to Cultivate Mind

We are creating a fantasy to wake up from fantasy. We are creating a witness to wake up from the unconscious self-indulgence that is the human mind.

Xin Xin Ming: Aversion and Affection – Audio dharma talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2022/08/10)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Xin Xin Ming: Aversion and Affection - Audio dharma talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2022/08/10)
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Xin Xin Ming: Aversion and Affection

How can I fully be myself and not harm others?

Xin Xin Ming: Reversing the Light – Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/08/09)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Xin Xin Ming: Reversing the Light - Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/08/09)
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Xin Xin Ming: Reversing the Light

Reversing the light is looking. It is Xin being conscious of who we are, of what’s arising, of what’s going on. It is the clarity of the witnessing of our being.

Audio dharma talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2022/07/16)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2022/07/16)
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Those of us who come to this practice, we set aside a lot of time to practice, to try to tame our brains, to try bringing ourselves with some kind of alignment with the universe and emptiness, to try to find the source of our true Buddha nature – not even knowing what it looks like, really. Sometimes struggling to let go of the forms and practices and things that we come to lean on to keep our minds tamed and in line. To make it not hurt so much.

Discipline and Freedom: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/19)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Discipline and Freedom: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/19)
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In every situation where there’s an impulse to do something and the mind is still and that falls away—that, by definition, is freedom.

Aspiration for Awakening: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/18)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Aspiration for Awakening: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/18)
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Living from a heart of service clarifies the interconnectedness that is the truth of reality, which is why the embodiment of it over time clarifies delusion and leads to liberation and awakening.

Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/11)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/06/11)
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Our relationship to our ancestors is complicated because we may have ancestors that engaged in violence, we may ancestors where one group of the ancestors actually treated the other group of the ancestors badly. We may have difficulty honoring ancestors, even though they have given us everything.

The History We Carry Within Us: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/04/16)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
The History We Carry Within Us: audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2022/04/16)
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We are healing ten thousand years, transforming ten thousand years. We are working through this relational suffering that has shaped my isolation, my disconnection, and my individualism.

Audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi and Kidō Ian Case (2022/04/09)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi and Kidō Ian Case (2022/04/09)
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When we come together, with all the trauma bodies in the room, it’s not just me, it’s not just Ian, it’s not  just us – it’s all of the ancestors, all the people that came before us.

Audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2022/03/26)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2022/03/26)
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Bring your attention to your heart area. How does it feel, to give, this moment, to ourselves, completely to ourselves? Wherever you are, with your thoughts and feelings, painful or joyous… how is it to give, completely, to what we are feeling at this time?

Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/01/08)

Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/01/08)
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For Dogen, that dropping away of body and mind that he considers awakening, is the dropping away of that center of experience.

Being in Conversation: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/02/05)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Being in Conversation: Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2022/02/05)
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In some ways, being in conversation is the only thing we can do one long groundless conversation. That’s this life.

Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2022/01/29)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio dharma talk by Laura O'Loughlin (2022/01/29)
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I have seen this happen, when some tinny little thing will happen in my relationship and the intensity of the response is so tremendous because it is connected to a whole stream of unforgiven, unnamed, unfelt pain.

Audio Dharma Talk by Teah Strozer (2022/01/22)

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Brooklyn Zen Center Audio Dharma Podcast
Audio Dharma Talk by Teah Strozer (2022/01/22)
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How do we live in this world? From where do we respond? Are we in touch enough with the place of the heart so that we can speak to a roommate that is difficult for us from a place of openness, from a place from where we don’t disconnect?