Appamada

By Appamada

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April 07, 2024 2024-04-04 | Day 5/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks
00:00:27 - Dharma Talk
00:20:46 - Poem - Another theory of Time
00:28:30 - Reflections
Another Theory of Time
- Marie Howe
So, I tell my daughter
we are eating dinner, reading through the book of stories
I'm worried about Jason. If I seem distracted, that's what's on my mind.
And she says, Take it out of your mind,
then dips and eats a dumpling, and says, But don't take out Jason.
And this morning at the deli I say, I'm grumpy because
it's the first day of school, and I'm thinking of so many things.
and she says, Take them out, and I say, How do I do that?
and she says, Think about Now.
I bite into my egg and cheese on a sesame bagel, and it is good. It is.
Although it does bother me
how she always wants to sit at the tiny deli counter
so near the garbage bins
eating meatballs for breakfast.
Then she ways, I can't remember the future or the past.
The local high school girls order iced coffee and whole wheat bagels
with nothing on them. My girl eats her meatballs,
and I stare past the cutouts of ham and turkey taped to the window
and think about the moment I want so much to leave
how small it is sometimes, this Now
how constricting, me with my bad teeth and ageing elbows.
as person after person tosses their trash inches behind my back
before walking out the open door.
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34min
April 07, 2024 2024-04-03 | Day 4 | Forms and Roles as Practice | Head Student Sandra Medina Bocangel
2024-04-03 | Day 4 | Forms and Roles as Practice | Head Student Sandra Medina Bocangel by Appamada
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38min
April 07, 2024 2024-04-02 | Day 3/Part 2 | Forms and Roles as Practice | Peg Syverson and Flint Sparks
00:00:33 - Peg Reads a Poem ‘Enlightenment’ by Vijay Seshardi
00:05:54 - Offering Comprehensive Instruction on Posture/Sitting Zazen
00:32:51 - Questions/Reflections
00:35:00 - Peg Offers Instruction on a Practice (Groups of 3) - 'Narrating on Present Moment Experience Whilst Sitting in the Zazen Posture'
00:37:48 - Participants Join Groups of 3 for 10 Minutes
00:37:57 - Reflections/Comments
Vijay Seshadri
1954 –
“It’s all empty, empty,”
he said to himself.
“The sex and drugs. The violence, especially.”
So he went down into the world to exercise his virtue,
thinking maybe that would help.
He taught a little kid to build a kite.
He found a cure,
and then he found a cure
for his cure.
He gave a woman at the mercy of the weather
his umbrella, even though
icy rain fell and he had pneumonia.
He settled a revolution in Spain.
Nothing worked.
The world happens, the world changes,
the world, it is written here,
in the next line,
is only its own membrane—
and, oh yes, your compassionate nature,
your compassion for our kind.
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52min
April 07, 2024 2024-04-02 | Day3/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Peg Syverson
00:00:59 - Peg Reads Huineng Poem
00:02:18 - Peg reads a section of the Fukanzazengi (Eihei Do- gen ) regarding Zazen
Huineng Poem
Deluded, a Buddha is a sentient being; Awakened, a sentient being is a Buddha.
Ignorant, a Buddha is a sentient being; With wisdom, a sentient being is a Buddha.
If the mind is warped, a Buddha is a sentient being; If the mind is impartial, a sentient being is a Buddha.
When once a warped mind is produced, Buddha is concealed within the sentient being.
If for one instant of thought we become impartial, Then sentient beings are themselves Buddha.
In our mind itself a Buddha exists, Our own Buddha is the true Buddha.
If we do not have in ourselves the Buddha mind, Then where are we to seek the Buddha?
By: Huineng
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36min
April 07, 2024 2024-04-01 | Day 2/Part 2 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks & Peg
00:19:39 - Questions/Reflections
00:22:52 - Flint Prepares for, and Offers an Exercise
00:33:33 - Instruction for connection Groups of 3 People (20 Minutes)
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36min
April 07, 2024 2024-04-01 Day 2/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks
2024-04-01 Day 2/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks by Appamada
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26min
April 07, 2024 2024-03-31 | Day 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice |Peg Syverson & Flint Sparks
00:01:48 - Peg anf Flint read Fukanzazengi - Eihei Do-gen (P.p 30 Appamada Chant Book)
00:11:28 - Flints Asks ‘What was it like to hear it read out in this way’?
00:26:49 - Flint Reads a poem by Marie Howe (see Below)
00:32:33 - Peg reads a Poem by Dogen
Easter
Two of the fingers on his right hand
had been broken
so when he poured back into that hand it surprised
him—it hurt him at first.
And the whole body was too small. Imagine
the sky trying to fit into a tunnel carved into a hill.
He came into it two ways:
From the outside, as we step into a pair of pants.
And from the centre—suddenly all at once.
Then he felt himself awake in the dark alone.
- Marie Howe
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49min
April 03, 2024 2024-04-02 I Inquiry I Nothing happening is a very good day I Trudy Johnson
2024-04-02 I Inquiry I Nothing happening is a very good day I Trudy Johnson by Appamada
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1h 2min
March 28, 2024 2024-03-26 I Inquiry I Are You Clear About Practice? I Flint Sparks
2024-03-26 I Inquiry I Are You Clear About Practice? I Flint Sparks by Appamada
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54min
March 26, 2024 2024-03-24 | Dharma Talk | Creating a Pantoum - Ordinary things are all Extra-Ordinary | Joel Barna
Ordinary things are all Extra-Ordinary | Joel Barna
00:02:31 - A Reading from 'After Buddhism' by Stephen Batchelor
00:07:36 - Joel gives instructions on how to write a Pantoum Poem (Please see below)
00;11:56 - Joel’s Pantoum
00:13:18 - Joel explains how to format the 8 lines into a Pantoum
00:15:09 - Participants Write for 10 Minutes
00:15:19 - Instruction for Connecting Rooms/Groups
00:15:49 - Participants go into Breakout Rooms/Groups for 10 Minutes
00:15:58 - Some of the Participants share their Pantoums
00:22:31 - Joel begins to bring the meeting to a close
Pantoum Instructions below:
1. A line about something that’s become ordinary for you;
2. Where does this ordinary thing happen?
3. A line about time: When did you notice this ordinary thing had become ordinary?
4. Other surrounding events: what happens before it? what happens after it?
5. What is a single feeling you have about this ordinary thing?
6. What do you most wish to say about this ordinary thing? (You may wish to imagine
yourself speaking to a person you think will listen: it could be yourself.)
7. A line showing us an object that’s associated with this ordinary;
8. Something about your body and this ordinary.
Then arrange the lines in this order:
1st verse
1
2
3
4
2nd verse
2
5
4
6
3rd Verse
5
7
6
8
4th Verse
7
3
8
1
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25min

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