Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 1: Biography of Master Hongzhi

Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu.

Comments on an interview with leading American poet Ross Gay where he describes how we can cultivate joy, delight and gratitude.

Main source(s): https://onbeing.org/programs/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight/

Jukai : why and how we receive the 16 precepts, and do it more than once, plus some notes on understanding the 10 cardinal precepts in the light of the 3 resolutions -- to do no harm, to do good, and to liberate all living beings.

The fourth and last of the pre-Jukai Dharma classes on the Heart Sutra

The third in the series of dharma classes on the Heart Sutra

The second class in the Heart Sutra series.

Sometimes silence, so valued by us as students of Zen, is not enough. Of course all lives matter, but we need to affirm aloud that black and brown lives matter, as they are often devalued, disregarded and outright destroyed. If we are white we need to work at becoming aware of the privileges we enjoy as a result of present and historical colonisation, and the ideology if white superiority that goes along with it.

The first in the series of classes on the Heart Sutra

Bodhicitta (the intelligent heart, or aspiration to awaken for the sake of all) as a way of engaging with this time of great peril and great opportunity.

Some of the ways the pandemic lock-down is being understood and how we might respond to this global upheaval in our own lives.