A reading to launch two new poetry books by BZC friends and acclaimed poets: Granny Cloud by Farnoosh Fathi and Through a Window by Zoketsu Norman Fischer. BZC Administrative Director Ryan Lee Wong reads from a new short story and the three discuss Zen, poetics, and Eihei Dogen’s “grandmotherly” or “parental” mind.
“We’re going to heal through a community that is grounded in our non-separateness, in our tender vulnerable, non separateness. A community that values human life, period. A community that can grieve. A community that accepts that sometimes we’re brokenhearted. A community that sees that the violence in our culture is not evenly distributed and that some of us are more vulnerable than others.”
“In our tradition, we lift up an understanding of impermanence and a close relationship with that, so that we also have a sense that we will be ancestors, that already there are descendants, seeds of them in our actions, in our decisions, in our efforts, and as a way to care for all of the living now, and all of those to come.”
Recorded at Millerton Zendo in Millerton NY on September 22, 2024.
Recorded at Millerton Zendo in Millerton NY on September 8, 2024.
“When buddhist modes of being becomes fused into the foundation, home becomes a refuge for healing.”
Recorded at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY on October 19, 2024.
Recorded at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY on October 11, 2024.
Recorded at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY on October 5, 2024.