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To be able to hear the dharma is truly rare. To do so we must: Stop and see, sit still and let go.

Description:  This is the Question & Answer companion to Encounter of the Heart Retreat: Stop & See, Part 1. Valerie Forstman is the speaker and teacher for this session. 

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

30 Days of Zen, July 1-31
Q&A with Henry Shukman July 11 @ 5:00 pm – July 11 @ 7:00 pm
Zazenkai – Day of Zen, Saturday July 16, led by Valerie Forstman
Original Love, Deep Clear Lake: 6 Sundays beginning July 31,10am – 12pm led by Henry Shukman

Empty, new and utterly fleeting, arriving now but already done.

Description:  In this first Teisho from the Encounter of the Heart Retreat, January 2021, Valerie Forstman  reminds us that this practice is much bigger than any events, or any circumstances. To be able to hear the dharma is truly rare. To do so we must: Stop and see, sit still and let go.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

Summer Solstice Retreat: June 20-26. Intimacy with all Things, led by Henry and Valerie.
30 Days of Zen, July 1-31
Zazenkai – Day of Zen, Saturday July 16, led by Valerie Forstman
Original Love, Deep Clear Lake: 6 Sundays beginning July 31,10am – 12pm led by Henry Shukman

Image by Mark Paul Petrick

“… Does Nansen really kill the cat? …”

Description:  Maria Reis Habito gives a teisho on Case 14 from the Gateless Gate, Nansen Kills the Cat.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

Support, Trust, Awakening Virtual Weekend: June 11-12

Summer Solstice Retreat: June 20-26. Registration for onsite and online attendees opens soon. The online retreat opens on Tuesday June 21. 

Description: Natalie Goldberg gives an inspiring talk about Zen in action. She describes some of her background experiences in both Zen and writing and how they interact and nourish each other. She talks about taking up writing as her practice, encouraged by her teacher Katagiri Roshi. Natalie reveals three guiding formations from her years with Katagiri Roshi:

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

Original Love, Zone 2 Support and Trust, 6-Week Sunday series May 1 – June 5

Summer Solstice Retreat: June 20-26. Registration for onsite and online attendees opens soon. The online retreat opens on Tuesday June 21. 

Description: Dosho Port teaches with the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training and at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha, and he has been practicing Zen since 1977. The Record of Empty Hall is his new translation and commentary on a classic collection of koans by Xutang Zhiyu (1185-1269), an important figure in Ch’an/Zen Buddhism. Port illuminates these remarkable koans and their place in contemporary Zen practice, opening new paths into the multiplicity of meaning at the heart of koan inquiry.

And, here’s a link to our YouTube video of this talk.

Note: Dosho’s portion of the talk has some background noise which could not be lessened but it is still “listenable” – our apologies for any inconvenience.

Also, check out our Upcoming Events:

Original Love, Zone 2 Support and Trust, 6-Week Sunday series May 1 – June 5

Summer Solstice Retreat: June 20-26. Registration for onsite and online attendees opens soon. The online retreat opens on Tuesday June 21.