For the last talk of sesshin Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: how do we want our lives to flow outwards and onwards, beyond this body and this lifetime?

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Shinmon Michael Newton asks: what conceptual things are you holding on to so tightly? Can you call forth the old tea-woman within you?  

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Shuso Myosen River Shannon suggests that affording those around us dignity is bodhisattva action. 

“Beings are me. I will take them in hand. […] Mind goes elsewhere, I steadily walk it home […] I willingly enter each threshold. […] The way of wholeness is true, May I belong to it completely.” - Caroline Meister

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Myoshin Kate McCandless explores anger as response to threat, asking how we might bring subtlety to the discussion. Can anger, fully experienced, lead to envisioning possibility?

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Shinmon Michael Newton encourages the sangha to not turn away from the opportunity afforded by being on retreat.   

“Our practice, whatever it is, is our true teacher. our life is our practice. Our life is our koan. Each one of us learns from our own life. If we listen deeply, if we are involved to the bottom of it, this is our true teacher, this is our most venerable teacher.” Maurine Myoon Stuart

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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers stories, writings and poetry describing  our women ancestors' moments of kenshō (awakening experiences).

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Shinmon Michael Newton offers the first dharma talk from Rohatsu at Brew Creek.

 “When we can be totally honest with what is happening right now, then we can completely see it. Buddhas come whole.”

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Both Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton share stories about, and teachings from, the women ancestors of Mountain Rain Zen.

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Zenshin Florence Caplow offers a dharma talk on the dance between chronic illness and Buddhist practice. 

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Shuso Myosen River Shannon asks: what is it to believe in karma or not?

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