Listen to the Ango Opening Ceremony at Ocean Mind Sangha. An open heart

welcomes the painful and often unexpected, with curiosity and love.

Luckily, there are many practices available to guide us on this path.

Receiving the precepts (jukai) is a significant aspect of Zen training where a student, surrounded and supported by their teacher and sangha, commits to a life guided by the ethical teachings of Buddhism. The ceremony of jukai itself includes the taking of refuge in the Three Treasures, the Three Pure Precepts, and the Ten Grave Precepts.

Listen to and join in as Zuisei guides, and the Ocean Mind Sangha supports, Alexandra Brown, Norm F. Christian, and Adam Green in receiving the precepts.

Receiving the precepts (jukai) is a significant aspect of Zen training where a student, surrounded and supported by their teacher and sangha, commits to a life guided by the ethical teachings of Buddhism. The ceremony of jukai itself includes the taking of refuge in the Three Treasures, the Three Pure Precepts, and the Ten Grave Precepts.

Listen to and join in as Zuisei guides, and the Ocean Mind Sangha supports, Alexandra Brown, Norm F. Christian, and Adam Green in receiving the precepts.

In our practice the refuge of home is limitless and all encompassing. We

are never outside of it. So when it feels as if we are shut out, why is

this, and what can we do to return?

When your spiritual practice feels dull or remote and it’s difficult to remember its living, breathing power, here are eight ways to re-engage—find the one that speaks to you now. This dharma talk begins with the Student Entering Ceremony of Eric Geist.

In this last study session on Pema Chödrön’s No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Zuisei takes up the practices of offering (dedicating the merits of our practice) and letting go (acknowledge, surrender, and grieve).

This talk draws on the teachings of Shantideva and Pema Chödrön, the experience of ultramarathon runner Jenn Hughes, and more.

Explore the practice of prayer—learn how we as Buddhists can engage this

powerful tool in the service of ending distraction and reclaiming love and

liberation.

Explore the practice of faith and the ways it sparks, sustains, and guides

us on our path.

Fear can be practiced, no matter how strong or subtle it appears to us. Drawing on the Buddhist sutras, this talk illustrates the path of meeting our fears and moving beyond them.

Zen monasteries around the world practice oryoki, the meal ceremony that

highlights that eating is a sacred act— one that puts us in touch, not just

with physical hunger, but with our deeper aspiration to awaken.