2024-01-07 | The Path to Enlightenment | Laurie Winnette

Participants discuss the koan about the blind donkey along with Reb Anderson's commentary on the koan and others, which can be found at: https://inquiringmind.com/article/1002_5_reb-anderson/

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2024-01-02 I Inquiry I Practicing with Imagination I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada

poem

Blessing for the Brokenhearted

~Jan Richardson

https://verse.press/poem/blessing-for-the-brokenhearted-6973785118333689337

2023-12-11 | Depth in Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 13 Linji's Blind Ass-part 1 by Appamada

2023-12-04 | Depth in Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 12 Dizang Planting the Fields | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

2023-11-27 | Depth in Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 12 Dizang Planting the Fields | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

Final Day of Rohatsu Intensive

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00:00:26 - Buddha's Enlightenment Ceremony - Teachings Offered By Laurie

00:14:29 - The Song Of Zazen ~ Hakuin

00:18:25 - Maka Hannya Haramitta Shingyo - Heart of the Perfect Wisdom Sutra

00:21:30 - The Sutra on the Heart of Realising Wisdom Beyond

00:00:21 - Guided Excercise Revisiting the 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path - Laurie Winnette

00:08:44 - Participants Go Into breakout Rooms for 50 Minutes

00:00:26 - Ellen Offers a Dharma Talk - Teachings - The eight Fold Path

00:00:49 - The Bodhisattva vow and the Four Noble Truths are inseparable

00:04:06 - The Eight Fold Path Components

00:07:30 - Right View

00:07:49 - Right Intention

00:09:23 - The Buddha Names 3 Intentions that Cause Suffering - - Grasping, ill-will and Cruelty

00:11:45 - First Category of the 8 Fold Path - The Wisdom Category - Right View - Right Intention - Supports the Ethics Category

00:12:05 - Second Category of the 8 Fold Path - Ethics Category -Right Speech - Right Action and Right Livelihood

00:16:34 - Third and Final Component of the 8 Fold Path - The Concentration Category -

00:17:06 - The Concentration Category - Right Effort - Right Mindfulness - Right Concentration

00:27:42 - Ellen Invites Questions

00:29:35 - Book Recommended - Steps to Liberation: The Buddha's Eightfold Path Paperback – by Gil Fronsdal - Also Readings by Analyo

00:31:33 - Awakening together - Embarking on a Year Long Study of the Eight Fold Path - Teachers Ryan and C.J. - https://www.awakeningtogetherzen.org/ email: [email protected]

00:35:39 - Breakout Room Exercise - Laurie Offers Questions for the Exercise(Questions Below)10 Minutes to write - 25 Minutes to write. - 10 Minutes to share - then 10 minutes in the big group

00:36:21 - HOSTILITY - 1) Think about ways anger and hostility appear in your life

00:37:03 - 2) Do your actions cause harm, even in minor ways?

00:37:22 - 3) How are you harmed (mentally) when you express hostility?

00:37:45 - 4) As you consider the affects of your hostility, how are you effected by this reflection?

00:38:17 - COMPASSION - 1) Reflect on your relationship to compassion.

00:38:32 - 2) What role has compassion had in your life— both receiving of it and offering compassion to others?

00:38:59 - 3) How does it feel to be compassionate?

00:39:04 - 4) How might it benefit you if you cultivated more compassion?

00:39:18 - 5) How can you have more self-compassion?

00:39:27 - Participants Go into Breakout Rooms to Write for 25 Minutes - Share for 10 Minutes Together

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