Jikai Vicki Turay,  Mayne Island, BC dweller and longtime MRZC practitioner, delivers a dharma talk on the tender balance between doubt and faith and how we can cultivate the confidence to step off the top of a 100-foot pole.

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After a month of studying Dogen’s fascicle on Continuous Practice—and just hours before a jukai ceremony in which five members of MRZC will formally receive the bodhisattva precepts— Guiding Teacher Shinmon Michael Newton discusses the bodhisattva precepts as a form of continuous practice.

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How does zen practice lead to the whole body smiling with all it is? Hofu Louise Day shares some of her life experiences - from sitting with Suzuki Roshi when still in highschool, to finding inner peace again after intense loss and grief. 

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On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and featuring poems by Ukrainian poets, Myoshin Kate McCandless examines how a bodhisattva might move in the world.

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