Appamada

What Joel offered was adapted from “Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides" Author Geoffrey L. Cohen

Buddhist underlying values:

• Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity

• Sense of Humor

• Honesty

• Bringing a sense of curiosity and learning to life’s challenges

• Independence or agency and a sense of self-worth

• Creativity

00:00:26 - Jon-Eric outlines the talk

00:04:16 - The Skandhas - a buddhist framework for the mind

00:11:41 - The Kleshas (also known as Mental afflictions)

00:17:01 - Hakomi

00:20:57 - Guided Meditation - 8 minutes

00:27:52 - Jon-Eric Invites Reflections

2024-09-10 I Inquiry I So What I Trudy Johnston by Appamada

2024-09-09 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 24 Look Out for the Snake | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

00:00:26 - Sandra Opens up day 3 - Trust in Mind

00:04:08 - Sandra Read the Hsin Hsin Ming

00:31:10 - Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen Author - Mu Soeng

00:32:28 - Dharma Activity - 3 minutes of silence - write for 10 minutes - 5 mins sharing (in pairs) - Write from a place of compassion and equanimity - noticing how your body feels

2024-09-06 | Day 2/Part 2 | Intensive - Trust in Mind | Sandra Medina Bocangel

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk

00:45:55 - Dharma Activity - In Pairs - 3 minutes to sit in silence - 5 minutes writing - 5 minutes each sharing - Write about any situation, with any particular person, or yourself, an encounter, and write about feelings thoughts, sensations in your body - During the sharing, just notice what is happening in your partner, their body language - looking with open curiosity.

00:00:26 - Robin opens the Intensive - ‘Trust in Mind’

00:03:53 - Hsin Hsin Ming

00:13:41 - Sitting and just noticing what arises

00:16:02 - Reflections

00:21:27 - Robin reads the Hsin Hsin Ming - and Joel reads the Translation of the Hsin Hsin Ming

00:25:21 - Dharma Activity - Robin invites people, over the next few days, to write their own translation of the Hsin hsin Ming

00:33:01 - Robin describes how the Dharma Activity will look over the next few days

00:36:33 - Participants write for 15 minutes

00:00:26 - Robin opens up the final talk of this intensive - Trust in Mind

00:10:40 - Robin and Joel Choral Read Hsin Hsin Ming with Robin’s Interpretation

00:18:01 - Robin Offers a dharma Activity - 3 minutes to sit - 15 minutes to write - and 5 minutes each to share (in pairs) - sharing what you wrote, or any experience you’ve had throughout the intensive - what you are feeling in your body

00:18:08 - Sharings and Reflections

00:28:48 - Hsin Hsin Ming - Popcorn Style - Each Participant takes any line and speaks it into the circle

00:00:26 - Robin begins - Trust in Mind

O0:05:55 - Continuing with - Hsin Hsin Ming Translation - Robin and Joel

00:31:33 - Robin Offers a Dharma Activity - writing your own version/interpretation of a segment of the Hsin Hsin Ming

00:35:42 - Participants write for 20 minutes

00:35:51 - Robin invites Participants to share what they wrote

00:37:58 - 1st Sharing/interpretation of a segment of the Hsin Hsin Ming

00:42:41 - 2nd Sharing/Interpretation

00:45:27 - 3rd Sharing/Interpretation

00:46:29 - 4th Sharing/Interpretation

00:49:41 - 5th Sharing/Interpretation

For my names they are many,

Trudy, child, tinker, mucky pup,

daughter, sister, friend, schoolgirl,

lover, student, drop out, nun, student,

shop owner, Hema, teacher, wife, mother, housewife,

student, counsellor, therapist, supervisor,

trainer, grandmother, student, teacher,

trainer, student, great grandmother,

and now a new name, and

a new family, that join the list

of things I have been and

I have done. All flow, and all ebb,

each part becoming the next thing, although

each part is also entire unto itself.

What names do we give ourselves,

what names do we cherish, or loathe.

Which names trap us, and which

free us.

There is a koan,

“Show me your original face before you were born”

now my koan is

“Tell my your name before you given one”

~Trudy Johnston