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Dharma Talks
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2025-07-27
Creativity and the Dharma
34:35
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Kitty Costello
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"You are the most powerful when you are in the moment. You create the future when you are in the moment.”
- Herbie Hancock, jazz improvisation master and Nichiren Buddhist
The "clear seeing" of vipassana gives us more choice, more freedom to intentionally shape and recreate our selves and our lives, moment by moment. Is there creativity in your own dharma practice? Does practice enhance your creativity?
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2025-07-20
The Parami of Patience
33:26
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Eugene Cash
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"Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi
Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience,
constancy is a kind of dedication to what you love and what you care about, and with that dedication comes a trust that by planting beautiful seeds, eventually in their own time they will bear fruit."
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2025-03-30
Fear & Courage
33:54
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Frank Ostaseski
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The willingness to sit with fear is an act of courage.
The old Buddhist texts refer to "the great and courageous bodhisattvas." These are beings who, have the fortitude to stand with suffering that might bring the rest of us to our knees.
It's not that such people have no fear. Rather, they are able to maintain a courageous presence while they are afraid.
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2025-02-16
An Appropriate Response
44:22
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Pamela Weiss
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In an old Zen story, a student comes to see his beloved teacher who is on his death bed and asks: Tell me, what is the teaching of your entire lifetime?
And the teacher replies: An appropriate response.
Tonight's talk will explore what it means to respond appropriately to a world on fire.
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2025-02-09
Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity
35:31
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Eugene Cash
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The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life; they do not hear the cry of distress continually pervading the world. Bound by selfishness, their hearts turn stiff and narrow... It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom and makes the narrow heart as wide as the world.
~Nyanaponika Thera
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2024-12-08
Guiding Rage Into Power
1:18:39
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Nina Gold
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The introduction to the GRIP-Training Institute will be led by Tommy Shakur Ross, Nina Gold, Robin Guillen and Lindsey Villarreal.
GRIP, Guiding Rage Into Power, is a yearlong program of personal transformation, healing and accountability offered in the California State prisons. It is rooted in restorative justice principals, with the understanding that "hurt people, hurt people and healed people, heal people.”
This program began as a basic insight meditation program at San Quentin Prison some 25 years ago. Through real time experience and evidence-based methodology, under the guidance of Jacques Verduin, the program evolved into a deep and comprehensive journey where the participants are able to understand their past traumas and transform their violent behavior. The program is guided by the principles of Stopping Violent Actions, Cultivating Mindfulness, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Victim Impact.
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