In this special Tuesday night Dharma Talk at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, Soto Zen teacher Ben Connelly brings together the strands of Mindfulness as focused examination of the work and Intimacy as an awareness of the interconnection of all things.

Ben offers insights and practices that explore how mindfulness and intimacy can together enrich our empathetic engagement with ourselves and the world around us—with our values, with the environment, and with the people in our lives, in all their distinct manifestations of race and religion, sexuality and gender, culture and class—and lead to a truly engaged, compassionate, and joy-filled life.

Ben Connelly is a Soto Zen teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police and corporate training, correctional facilities, and addiction recovery and wellness groups. Ben is based at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center.

The Flower Garland Discourse: The Ten Great Aspirations of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is one of the great poetic sutras of the Mahayana tradition. Dharma Teacher Greg Grallo shares how we can see this sutra as a Love Letter to the practice of Mindfulness.

(Starts at time stamp: 1.35)Practice talk on the Fifth Mindfulness Training: Nourishment and Healing, in the Plum Village Tradition, given on Monday May 13th, 2019 at the Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT by Miriam Bayer.

Three Touchings of the Earth practice, offered during the Montana Open Way Sanghas spring family retreat on Friday May 3rd, 2019, by Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski.

Dharma talk given by Dharma teachers Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn on Sunday May 5th, 2019 during the Montana Open Way Sanghas spring family retreat.

Short Dharma talk followed by Q&A with visiting Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski, offered at Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT on Monday May 6th, 2019.

Instructions for developing the proper posture and Right Spirit for sitting meditation, offered by OI member Nicole Dunn at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday April 22, 2019.

Evening chant in the Plum Village tradition, offered by Nicole Dunn.

Practice talk given by Steve Allison-Bunnell on Tuesday, April 2. 2019. The talk begins the April Sutra Study on the Discourse on the Lotus of the Wonderful Dharma: Universal Door Chapter.

Talk on the Fourth Mindfulness Training: Deep Listening and Loving Speech, in the Plum Village Tradition, given by Suzanne Hendrich at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday April 1st, 2019.