The Deepest Practice a Bodhisattva can ever do is to listen deeply. The deepest thing we can ever experience is having a change of heart. Last evening at Bellwoods location. July 12, 2011.
Discussion about contemplating someone in your life who you have a hard time seeing as a Buddha. Buddha Nature is your imagination and the way you can re-see people who have wounded you. June 28, 2011. 20 min.
There is nowhere you can stand that is not a place the Buddha hasn't practiced. The Buddha was enlightened right where you are standing. If you can see others as a Buddha you are a Buddha - even animals and trees. Story of Never Disparaging Buddha and Mark Ragosian who lived in Woodstock New York. June 28, 2011. 45 min.
Grant Hutchinson and Carina Lof give a talk on Chapter 15 and 16 of the Lotus Sutra based on study group. Seeing what is actually in our lives not just what we want to see. If your kids won't take medicine how do you give it to them? June 21, 2011. 40 min.
One day I can have such a killer exhale that I end as a puddle of bones on the floor and time passes instantly. A moving evening when Mike Holboom and Christine Koch give talks on Chapter 16 of the Lotus Sutra. June 14, 2011. 45 min.
Everyone continually breaks down infinitely. How fast can a young woman get enlightened, especially if she is underwater? Michael unpacks some parables to explore the story of an 8 yr old girl who wakes up and touches every place in the Universe. June 7, 2011, 45 min.
Grant Hutchinson on Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra: the great mystery of our lives is spoken through language, the burning house, practice unpacks your knapsack, the monks are burning in Tibet, Jane Hirshfield's tree, Elaine's marshmallows. Recorded March 6, 2012.
Five kinds of Fear. Michael talks about fear, community and how it grows, a poem by Leonard Cohen, generosity, and then he reads his own poem about his mother. May 31, 2011.
People who can rub our back and say "it's ok" and everything they do is jewelled. May 24, 2011. 45 min.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
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