Recorded on March 29, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on March 22, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

"What is the ground of my life?

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Recorded on March 8, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

"Can we picture it? 100 years from now, 200 years from now (...) that 'operational worldview of interdependent thriving[1]' becomes the norm...becomes the ground that everybody stands on.

AND—I would say—that to get there, we have to include impermanence and not be afraid of it...and not be afraid of things changing, not be afraid of things shifting and becoming unfamiliar.  Right down to the stuff that we depend on and gives us comfort."

[1] From Norma Wong, When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse.

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Recorded on March 1, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, NY.

"If we say there's a right, there must be a wrong? But if we say harmonious perspective, we can embody the middle path and we don't have to make others wrong. We have to figure out how we can be harmonious with other people that we interact with. It's a radically different approach. It's non-american, and if it's non-american, it means it's subversive. And if it's subversive, it means it could be transformative. And if it's transformative, it could be revolutionary."

"I think Buddhism is at a crossroads. We can no longer sit on the sides and be observers of the pain of others. We must go into the marketplace with our truth: Causes plus conditions equals outcomes, impermanence, and shatter the illusions that have created destruction and hatred for generations."

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Recorded on February 22, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.

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Recorded on February 23, 2025 at Millerton Zendo, NY.

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

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Recorded on February 8, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

"The whole point of Buddhist practice is so we can help people. That’s the whole point. We clean up our mess a little bit, open up our heart, and then we can extend our hand out into the world that is utterly insane. And we can go into the world without needing to dominate because we understand that we’re not separate and that everyone is suffering. This is the wellspring of joy". 

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We had the honor of hosting Won Buddhist Minister, Rev. Doyeon Park, for our Saturday Morning Program. Her dharma talk explored what happens when we open ourselves up to our awareness of karma and causality.

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Recorded on January 25, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

"Reckoning with the fact that our time to be in an embodied form is limited is a

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