2024-10-21 | Depth in Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 30 Dasui's “Aeonic Fire” | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

Zen Lay Entrustment is a ceremony and recognition within Zen Buddhism where experienced lay practitioners are formally authorized to teach Zen. Unlike ordained priests, these lay teachers continue to live as laypeople while carrying the responsibility of teaching and transmitting the Dharma.This practice acknowledges the deep understanding and comm…

Metta SuttaThis is what should be accomplished by the one who is wise,Who seeks the good, and has obtained peace.Let one be strenuous, upright, and sincere,Without pride, easily contented, and joyous.Let one not be submerged by the things of the world.Let one not take upon oneself the burden of riches.Let one’s senses be controlled.Let one be wise …

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:13:54 - Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon (Page 38 in the Chant Book)Appamada

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:16:13 - Overview of the Coming Week00:22:55 - Opening up for Questions/Reflections00:33:52 - Meeting the SanghaAppamada

00:00:26 - Peg Offers an Exercise on Belonging00:01:13 - 4 Questions: Writing Activity (see Below)00:05:54 - ReflectionsWriting Activity: Belonging1. Take a few moments and become mindful. Recall a situation where you felt a true sense of belonging. Briefly describe the situation and then, how you felt. What gave you a felt sense that you belonged?…

Day 3/Part 100:00:26 - Overview00:01:45 - Dharma TalkAppamada

Listening/Meditation Exercise Led by Peg SyversonAppamada

2024-0-30 | Day 4/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Trust in community | Peg Syverson by AppamadaAppamada

00:00:26 - Peg Offers an exercise relating to Spiral dynamics00:08:45 - Participants Get into groups of 3 for 30 minutes00:08:52 - Reflections and TeachingsAppamada

Looking at Spiral dynamics/Change StatesAppamada

Looking at what part of the Change Process you are in now.00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:03:35 - Writing Exercise/Assignment00:08:56 - Peg offers the Groups of 3 exercise00:09:37 - Breakout rooms for 15 minutes in groups of 300:09:46 - Reflections/TeachingsAppamada

Spiral Dynamics and SpiritualitySpiral Dynamics Values Profile ‘This I Believe’ responsesSpiritual Collectives00:00:35 - Book Reccommendation - Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Geoffrey L. Cohen 00:04:34 - Spiral Dynamics Values Profile 2: Handout 1Appamada

2024-11-01 | Day 6/Part 2 | Integrated Intensive | Trust in Community | Peg Syverson by AppamadaAppamada

2024-10-29 I Inquiry I To shine one corner of the world I Flint Sparks by AppamadaAppamada

Reflections on a Burnt Match~ Trudy JohnstonWhat if your lifewas as brief as a match struck,fierce and bright, maybe helping othersto shine,then gone.What if your life was as brief as thespume rising from a crashing wave,as it makesits finalflourish.What if your lifewas as momentaryas the shifting shadowson the paintingbehind the sofa.Would it matt…

00:18:14 - Laurie Winnette - Offers a Dharma Activity - 1 - What is your current level of commitment at Appamada? - 2 - Do you have difficulty balancing your home life and spiritual life - work/life/other activities? If the answer is yes, what does it look like and how does it feel? 3- Think about the activities at Appamada that you are involved wi…

Jukai Reflections Ryan Van WykWhat is this vow that invites us to somehow be both more and less at the same time?Not exactly restrictive or prohibitive and yet something is relinquished.There is a paradox here; in committing to embody these qualities that have been passed on andlived out by generations of ancestors, we are also committing to be mor…

2024-10-14 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 29 Fengxue's Iron Ox | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

00:00:26 - Practicing with the Brahmavihara's00:40:59 - ReflectionsAppamada

2024-10-8 I Inquiry I To the Lighthouse I Josh Gifford by AppamadaAppamada

2024-10-07 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 28 The Three Embarassments | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:11:19 - Exert from 'Shift into Freedom' - (10 minutes)00:22:12 - 'Shift' Exercise Guided by Loch Kelly - ( 7 minutes)00:29:14 - ReflectionsAppamada

Book Reference Sailing Home~ Norman Fischerhttps://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Home-Odyssey-Navigate-Pitfalls/dp/1556439962Appamada

00:00:20 - Dharma Talk 'The End of Suffering'00:26:33 - ReflectionsAppamada

https://morningstarzensangha.blogspot.com/2019/03/koans-as-pointers-two-monks-roll up.html#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20case%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe,'One%20gains%3B%20one%20losesAppamada

2024-09-23 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 26 Yangshan Points to Snow | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

Links for two sources quoted from:Walking Around~ Pablo Nerudahttps://poets.org/poem/walking-aroundEverything Is Enlightenment ~Joan Sutherlandhttps://www.lionsroar.com/everything-is-enlightenment/Appamada

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:05:13 - Qualities that help to guide our actions - 1. Brahmavihara's: Loving kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic joy, Equanimity00:05:35 - 2 - A sense of Humour. 3 - Honesty. 4 - A sense of Curiosity. 5 - Independence/Agency. 6 - A sense of self worth. 7 - Creativity00:07:04 - Joel offers an Experiment - 00:08:21 - Participan…

What Joel offered was adapted from “Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides" Author Geoffrey L. Cohen Buddhist underlying values: • Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity • Sense of Humor • Honesty • Bringing a sense of curiosity and learning to life’s challenges • Independence or agency and a sense …

00:00:26 - Jon-Eric outlines the talk00:04:16 - The Skandhas - a buddhist framework for the mind00:11:41 - The Kleshas (also known as Mental afflictions)00:17:01 - Hakomi00:20:57 - Guided Meditation - 8 minutes00:27:52 - Jon-Eric Invites ReflectionsAppamada

2024-09-10 I Inquiry I So What I Trudy Johnston by AppamadaAppamada

2024-09-09 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 24 Look Out for the Snake | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

00:00:26 - Robin opens the Intensive - ‘Trust in Mind’00:03:53 - Hsin Hsin Ming00:13:41 - Sitting and just noticing what arises00:16:02 - Reflections00:21:27 - Robin reads the Hsin Hsin Ming - and Joel reads the Translation of the Hsin Hsin Ming00:25:21 - Dharma Activity - Robin invites people, over the next few days, to write their own translation…

2024-09-06 | Day 2/Part 2 | Intensive - Trust in Mind | Sandra Medina Bocangel00:00:26 - Dharma Talk00:45:55 - Dharma Activity - In Pairs - 3 minutes to sit in silence - 5 minutes writing - 5 minutes each sharing - Write about any situation, with any particular person, or yourself, an encounter, and write about feelings thoughts, sensations in your…

00:00:26 - Robin begins - Trust in MindO0:05:55 - Continuing with - Hsin Hsin Ming Translation - Robin and Joel00:31:33 - Robin Offers a Dharma Activity - writing your own version/interpretation of a segment of the Hsin Hsin Ming00:35:42 - Participants write for 20 minutes00:35:51 - Robin invites Participants to share what they wrote00:37:58 - 1st …

00:00:26 - Sandra Opens up day 3 - Trust in Mind00:04:08 - Sandra Read the Hsin Hsin Ming00:31:10 - Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen Author - Mu Soeng00:32:28 - Dharma Activity - 3 minutes of silence - write for 10 minutes - 5 mins sharing (in pairs) - Write from a place of compassion and equanimity - noticing how your body feels…

00:00:26 - Robin opens up the final talk of this intensive - Trust in Mind00:10:40 - Robin and Joel Choral Read Hsin Hsin Ming with Robin’s Interpretation00:18:01 - Robin Offers a dharma Activity - 3 minutes to sit - 15 minutes to write - and 5 minutes each to share (in pairs) - sharing what you wrote, or any experience you’ve had throughout the in…

For my names they are many,Trudy, child, tinker, mucky pup, daughter, sister, friend, schoolgirl,lover, student, drop out, nun, student,shop owner, Hema, teacher, wife, mother, housewife,student, counsellor, therapist, supervisor, trainer, grandmother, student, teacher, trainer, student, great grandmother, and now a new name, anda new family, that …

Join us on Monday nights: https://appamada.org/main-calendarLuzu Faces the Wall:Case: Whenever Luzu saw a monk coming, he would immediately face the wall. Nanquan, hearing of this, said, "I usually tell them to realize mastery before the empty aeon, to understand before the buddhas appear in the world; still I haven't found one or a half. Luzu that…

00:00:20 - Dharma Talk - Trust00:24:49 - Laurie Offers a Dharma Activity00:25:54 - Participants sit for 3 minutes, then share for 2 minutes each (Groups of 3) ( minutes total)00:26:06 - Laurie Invites FeedbackAppamada

“Losing the Trail”~Noah Charney.These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes. Yale University Press;New Haven and London: 2023. Pages 25-26. Following the trail is the easiest way to be lost. Sure, that trail might takes us to a preordained destination faster, but we’ll have no idea where we are when we get there. While we’re on the trai…

2024-08-26 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 22 Yantou's “Bow and Shout” | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

Dharma Teachings for us today: • Suffering and dissatisfaction are woven into the fabric of life - of losing and finding/breathing in - breathing out • Freedom and beauty are equally woven into the fabric of life - of losing and finding/breathing in - breathing out • The liberating realizations of the Buddha ~ everything changes and everything is i…

2024-08-19 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 21 Yunyan Sweeps the Ground | Thomas Cleary by AppamadaAppamada

2024-08-18 | Dharma Talk | Great Expectations | Ann Lipscomb00:00:26 - Dharma Talk - Great expectations00:20:09 - Ann Offers the Dharma Activity00:22:41 - Participants get into pairs for 22 minutes - 2 minute sit - 5 minutes to write - 15 minutes to share00:22:51 - Ann Invites FeedbackAppamada

Beautyland: A Novel: Marie-Helen BertinoAppamada

00:00:26 - The Universe Loves a Good Question00:07:11 - Sitting with Joko Beck00:09:10 - Reflections00:18:14 - Ellen continues with the Dharma Talk00:28:27 - Questions: 1/What has been a question that has guided your practice? 2/What has been your experience of asking questions?Appamada

2024-08-12 | Depth in Practice | Noble Truths, Noble Path | Bhikkhu Bodhi by AppamadaAppamada

The way is long – let us go together;the way is difficult – let us help each other;the way is joyful – let us share it;the way is ours alone – let us go in love;the way grows before us – let us begin.R: recognizeA: acceptI: investigateN: non-identificationAppamada