Recorded on December 13, 2025 during Rohatsu Sesshin—an intensive multi-day Zen meditation retreat commemorating the Buddha’s enlightenment—at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on December 12, 2025 during Rohatsu Sesshin—an intensive multi-day Zen meditation retreat commemorating the Buddha's enlightenment—at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on December 11, 2025 during Rohatsu Sesshin—an intensive multi-day Zen meditation retreat commemorating the Buddha’s enlightenment—at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on December 10, 2025 during Rohatsu Sesshin—an intensive multi-day Zen meditation retreat commemorating the Buddha's enlightenment—at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on November 15, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

We had the honor of welcoming back Won Buddhist Minister, Rev. Doyeon Park, for our Saturday Morning Program. She delivered a talk on the importance of recognizing and nurturing one's innate Buddha nature and its relationship to community.

"So rather than wishing for community without challenges, we can learn to see those challenges as part of perfection of the Sangha."

"You are blessed. You have this privilege, you have these blessings here, and take it, feel it, and hopefully you will also share it with others."

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Recorded during Three Day Sesshin on October 25, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on October 11, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

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Resources Referenced in This Talk

https://www.kairajewel.com

https://www.normawong.com

Joanna Macy, The Milling Exercise

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Recorded on October 6, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Resources Referenced in This Talk

Jewel Mirror Samadhi

The Dogen story and quote from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi are from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

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Recorded on September 20, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

Resources Referenced in This Talk

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Modernity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliviera

Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse by Kazu Haga

"Death Doula to a Dying Empire" by Kazu Haga

"How I Became a Localist" by Deborah Frieze

In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Time of Uncertainty by Francis Weller

No. 92 of 108 by Norma Wong

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Recorded on September 6, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

References mentioned in the talk:

Abuse, Sex and the Sangha: a Series of Healing Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpxqAk60QqWrlqnlVVWr4IvLyv1GtBw5I

Resilient Sangha Project: https://bostonzen.org/resilientsangha/

Buddhist Healthy Boundaries: https://www.buddhisthealthyboundaries.org/

"Sexual Ethics and Healthy Boundaries in the Wake of Teacher Abuse" by Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg: https://www.lionsroar.com/sexual-ethics-and-healthy-boundaries-in-the-wake-of-teacher-abuse/

Book by Julie Seido Nelson, "Practicing Safe Zen: Navigating the Pitfalls on the Road to Liberation": https://julieanelson.com/2024/11/21/practicing-safe-zen/

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