This talk covers precepts 2 and 8, which have to do with greed -- wanting stuff we don't have and clinging to stuff we already have, as well as precepts 4,6 and 7 which are to do with different aspects of right speech -- being truthful, kind and not boastful.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/3mha923rEWSTSGcdGwI4kTGSgPg

Working with spiritual poverty.

Arrival, loss and return -- the universe changes on its axis, but how to share this amazing experience with others? Searching for a context for 20 years and finally finding one.

Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

A turning point -- no need to look further than the mind itself.

Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

Flora Curtois' search for Reality, or the ground of being.

Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi

Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

The 10 Precepts are at the core of the Great Way and have their origins in the 8-fold Path. The version that we say can be found in the Brahma Net Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva in the 4th Century CE.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TzR5AgJe8tXU1xqsnAIJoxaEYkg

Discussion following the teisho on precepts (part 1)

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TzR5AgJe8tXU1xqsnAIJoxaEYkg

The teaching and poetry of grass and weeds, from Zen to Walt Whitman.

All is a circle -- an exploration of some of the circles to be found in nature and in Mind.

Main Texts: River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism by Taitetsu Unno, article From Anthropocene to Noosphere: The Great Acceleration in AGU (Advancing Earth and Space Science), 2021, by Boris Shoshitaishvili