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In this Dharma talk Antony Osho looks at a natural Zen practice that is an expression of our deep connectedness to the world, rather than a practice that expresses only our need, ambition or anxiety.

In this talk, Antony Osho looks at taking refuge as a gesture of connectedness with this life.

This practice is not just about finding the jewel in the world of form but of living the world of form as the jewel itself.

Antony Osho looks at our willingness to go to hell for others, through the koan 'Langzhong's Hell'.

There are many styles and forms of Zen practice but the essential characteristic of them all is that they grant us the fullness of a life beyond the self.

At  Poplar Grove Zendo we take refuge daily in Buddha Dharma and Sangha.  Sangha is our community, which is every person, thing, event or process  in our life - including our precious environment. We commit ourselves to  taking the world as friend, to looking after it as it looks after us.

Trauma and suffering accompany attachment to the activity of me-self. This also perpetuates the suffering and conceals our true nature. The Dharma teaches that only our authentic self can be the source of true healing and the Zen way is to find and make real that boundless life.

First we find the mind that is clear like a mirror, then we take a step into that clear world on our own two feet.