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.

Dharma Talk by Richard von Sturmer

The Buddha said whoever would tend me should tend the sick. With what attitude should we tend the sick?

Master Wansong comments on this story, "When the ancients were about to go, they frolicked in the realm of old age, sickness and death." How do you frolic in old age, sickness and death? Watch Master Dong Shan play like a dragon with his pearl and learn about the struggle and careful attention that lay behind his great freedom.

What is the nature of illness? What Is medicine? Ummon says that the whole earth is medicine, and asks what, then, is the self? How do things change when we approach the circumstances of our life from an understanding that the whole earth is medicine?

Zen teachings on sickness, death and healing.

Quoted text: In Love with the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche