Rev. Margaret Clyde shares some stories from her own life, both as a monk and before, where she had to notice and sit still with the complaining mind. She talks about how she began to notice this habit of mind and realized she needed to convert it.
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday May 26, 2024.

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Rev. Astor Douglas takes up the topic of simplicity. She leads us into looking at how we get drawn into the busy-ness of life and what we can do to stop and find our still center. 
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday May 12, 2024.

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Rev. Valora Midtdal suggests that taking responsibility for our suffering is, "ceasing to blame others for our difficult mind states...and looking clearly at how our own actions of body, speech, and mind contribute to our own distress."
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday April 21, 2024.

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Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, gives a general talk on practice. "Putting the Dharma into practice: we can read about it, we can hear about it, how do we actually practice it?" How do we bridge the gap between an intellectual understanding of practice and the actual DOING of practice.
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday April 14, 2024.

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Rev. Oswin Hollenbeck continues with his 'Attitude of Gratitude' series. He encourages us that, “living the life of a Bodhisattva is a noble thing to do”, and illuminates how we can achieve this way in our daily lives. 
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday May 5, 2024.

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Rev. Scholastica Hicks gives a dharma talk on the teaching of No Self.
This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Sunday April 7, 2024

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The late Rev. Jisho Perry talks about Rev. Master Jiyu Kennett. Rev. Master Jiyu was the first Abbess and Founder of Shasta Abbey. Rev. Jisho talks about her training in Japan and what she found during her time there. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in 2012.

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This is the fourth talk in a series of lectures done by Rev. Master Jiyu in around the year 1979. In this talk Rev. Master Jiyu talks about How To Grow a Lotus Blossom in order to round out our understanding of Great Master Dogen's 'Shushogi' as spoken on in the previous episode.

SHUSHOGI: https://www.shastaabbey.org/pdf/bookZel.pdf   pg.94

Link to talk#3: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2046795/episodes/12945071
-it was uploaded May 30, 2023

Link to talk#2: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2046795/episodes/12340718
-it was uploaded Feb 27, 2023 for purposes of looking up if you want to listen to it.

Link to talk#1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2046795/episodes/11666095
-it was uploaded Nov 9 2022 for purposes of looking up if you want to listen to it.

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RM Daishin talks about daily practice and the goal of 'Nirvana'. He encourages us to see that Nirvana is not an end goal but an ever ongoing flow of practice: now. 

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Rev. Kodo Kay talks about the practice of transferring Merit and how our practice has a deep impact upon the world. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey in 2018.

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