Zen Practice Before and After Enlightenment – Part 5, by Teshin Reb Anderson (03/03/2012)
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Reclaiming the Feminine in Our Practice (02/02/2019)
Talk offered by teachers Laura O’Loughlin and Sebene Salassie during a two-day retreat at Brooklyn Zen Center. The retreat, Reclaiming the Feminine in Our Practice, included silent and relational practices in stillness and in movement to explore the impact of patriarchy on our bodies, minds and hearts and what it means to reclaim the feminine in our practice and in our sanghas.
To start, [we need to] make this distinction between the sacred feminine and what we might call the social feminine. The sacred feminine we’re talking about is all of us, regardless of gender. It’s archetypal, it’s energetic – these are elemental qualities. The social feminine is something that is affected by the sacred feminine but it’s really the social phenomena of gender and, particularly, the relationship of women and female-identified people with what is the feminine.
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 3 (2016/05/20)
The beings who have this wish and commitment – to realize perfect understanding for the welfare of all beings – when those beings enter into Samadhi, their vow goes with them. So in that sense, the Bodhisattva Samadhi (or what I would call zazen) – I consider the zazen that I am recommending and encouraging is Bodhisattva Samadhi. And that Bodhisattva Samadhi, that zazen, is a vow. It’s an open, relaxed, buoyant, undistracted vow: to gather the entire ocean of Buddha’s teachings, for the welfare of all beings.
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Dharma talk by Teah Strozer (2016/06/18)
When we work on ourselves deeply enough, when we really are in touch with our own fundamental openness of heart, which really is there, the love that we have for ourselves and other people comes from a place of unconditioned openness. That is what you feel, tremendous gratitude – for every single person.
And when you meet them, you are meeting yourself. You are meeting a mystery that we both are. If you can walk with another person to that place for the both of you – it’s a tremendous gift.
It’s not easy, it’s not guaranteed, and it’s a lot of work. And this is what we do in practice
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Audio dharma talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson (2019/06/20)
Buddha activity is a pivotal activity. The pivotal activity of Buddhas can be called zazen. […] It’s the way Buddha or Great Awakening is pivoting with all living beings.
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