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  • 2024-04-06 | Day 7/Part 2 | Forms as Roles and Practice | Peg Syverson and Flint Sparks
    00:00:33 - Flint and Peg Begin
    00:06:12 - 'What if You Knew' - By Ellen Bass
    00:10:22 - Peg describes an Activity 'Walk and Talk'
    00:11:46 - Participants Walk In Pairs for 30 Minutes
    00:11:55 - Reflections/Comments
    What if You Knew
    What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone?
    If you were taking tickets, for example,at the theater,
    tearing them,giving back the ragged stubs,
    you might take care to touch that palm,
    brush your fingertipsalong the life line's crease.
    When a man pulls his wheeled suit case too slowly through the airport,
    when the car in front of me doesn't signal,
    when the clerk at the pharmacy won't say Thank you,
    I don't remember they're going to die.
    A friend told me she'd been with her aunt.
    They'd just had lunch and the waiter,
    a young gay man with plum black eyes, joked as he served the coffee,
    kissed her aunt's powdered cheek when they left.
    Then they walked half a block and her aunt dropped dead on the sidewalk.
    How close does the dragon's spume have to come?
    How wide does the crackin heaven have to split?
    What would people look like if we could see them as they are,
    soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless,
    pinned against time?
    By Ellen Bass
    37 min
  • 2024-04-06 | Day 7/Part 1 | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks and Peg Syverson
    00:46:03 - Joy Chose You - By Donna Ashworth
    JOY CHOSE YOU
    Joy does not arrive with a fanfare
    on a red carpet strewn
    with the flowers of a perfect life
    joy sneaks in
    as you pour a cup of coffee
    watching the sun
    hit your favourite tree
    just right
    and you usher joy away
    because you are not ready for her
    your house is not as it should be
    for such a distinguished guest
    but joy, you see
    cares nothing for your messy home
    or your bank balance
    or your waistline
    joy is supposed to slither through
    the cracks of your imperfect life
    that's how joy works
    you cannot truly invite her
    you can only be ready
    when she appears
    and hug her with meaning
    because in this very moment
    joy chose you.
    49 min
  • 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.
    34 min
  • 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.
    52 min
  • 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
    36 min

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