Enryu Anusha Fernando gives a talk on the Meghiya Sutta and its focus on the importance of friendship. 

We don’t live in a neutral experience and our practice is to pay attention to the offerings of community, of sangha.

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Daikan Green continues our dharma seminar, offering comments on the finger snap.

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 Dai-i Flo Rublee continues exploring the Xin Xin Ming poem, and how a sense of equanimity supports our practice in these deeply troubled times. 

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The Xin Xin Ming, sometimes translated as Faith in Mind, is a poem attributed to the 3rd Zen Patriarch Seng-t’san. It stresses having a sense of equanimity when experiencing both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

 Dai-i Flo Rublee shares an exploration of this text and how it can support our practice in these deeply troubled times. 

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Myosen River Shannon continues the dharma seminar on The Old Way, talks on texts from the Pali Canon, with a deep dive into the different kinds of minds we carry. What tools do we have for adjusting our behaviours when things are not going our way?

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Toshin Patrick Griffin offers a Way-seeking mind talk as an invitation to remember, with gratitude, the events that weave themselves into the thresholds of our life.

A Way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.

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Joko Claire Talbot explores what metta mean. 

Rather than evaluating or judging self and others against culturally ingrained standards, can we pay attention to self and others based on awareness of the human need to be safe, healthy, and happy?

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Myosen River Shannon asks in what way we can encourage each other in our practice. If spiritual friendship is an antidote to isolation and fragmentation, how do we achieve these wise relationships?

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Nin-en Susan Elbe explores the story of Angulimala, a serial murderer from the time of the Buddha. 

Even those with the darkest hearts share a common  humanity that just needs to be seen and accepted.

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Jikai Vicki Turay offers a talk in honour of World Water day and the first day of Spring. 

"Can we walk the fine line of the eight fold path between the urgency of present relative reality and the universal truth of impermanence?" 

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