In this unique and powerful Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax displays the poise and clarity of practice. Unexpectedly, she turns the talk into a dialogue with the audience as she reflects on […]
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SPP 2025 Sesshin Day 6: Living the Bodhisattva Way
In this closing talk from the last day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, the faculty of the practice period weave together final reflections on the vows and actions of true bodhisattvas. Sensei […]
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SPP2025 Sesshin Day 5: Destiny of a Nation: The Bodhisattva Practice of Kind Speech
In this talk during the fifth full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan explores the fourth of the bodhisattva’s methods of guidance: kind speech. She fames the importance of […]
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SPP2025 Sesshin Day 3: The Four Methods of Guidance: Beneficial Action, Identity Action
In this third full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Monshin explores the concepts of beneficial action and identity action from Dogen’s Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance. She identifies beneficial action as “skillfully […]
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SPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: The Four Bodhisattva Vows: The Nourishment of Endless Practice
In this second full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan explores the Four Bodhisattva Vows as expressions of what Suzuki Roshi described as an “inflexible determination to carry out one’s will […]
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