Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast

Myoshin Kate McCandless gives a dharma talk on one of humanity's great koans: gender. Can we release our fixed views on identity? 

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Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma Seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion. 

How does caring for ourselves help us care for others? How do we not hide behind the dream-like q…

Zen Engaged Dharma (ZED) talk by Kokai Michael Drebert on Gardening and the Wild.

ZED talks are informal talks by sangha members on how they take their practice into the world, and how their practice …

Shinmon Michael Newton gives the first talk in our new Dharma Seminar on Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Training in Compassion, where we will explore the practice of Lojong.

The first slogan, "Train in the …

Shinmon Michael Newton outlines how taking the bodhisattva vows reduces suffering and can help cultivate dignified presence.

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Shinmon Michael Newton gives the last talk in our Dharma Seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's Everyday Zen - Love and Work, offering further insight into a formidable zen teacher. 

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Myoshin Kate McCandless emphasizes that religions can not only provide solace and inspiration, but also need to reckon with harms done in the name of "god".

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Using Joko Beck's Everyday Zen as a springboard, Myoshin Kate McCandless asks us to consider what kind of boundaries we are attached to, and which of the worldly winds blows us off our path.

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Nin-en Susan Elbe picks up the thread of Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen by offering a talk on Chapter 8. 

How do the paramitas help us make difficult choices?

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ZED Talks (Zen Engaged Dharma) invite sangha members to tell their stories about how Zen practice manifests in their life.

Zen priest Onsen Kerr from Middle Way Sangha in Victoria discusses how her li…

To end our month long Genzo-e, Shinmon Michael Newton underlines that the moon is a symbol for awakening to non-dual reality and to impermanence.

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In this talk, Shinmon Michael Newton encourages us to not reject the incomplete and to not hang on to what is complete, but rather just to practice; to actualize the complete moon that is not yet ful…

Shinmon Michael Newton offers insights into the moon as symbol for the formless dharma body. What preconceived notions do you have about zen practice and your life? Can you let go of that mode of thi…

In the last dharma talk on Dogen's Dream within a Dream,  Myoshin Kate McCandless shares a dialogue between Ziyong, a 17th century Chinese nun at the end of her life, and her disciple Jingxuan.  How …

In this dharma talk, Shinmon Michael Newton encourages us to “hold up the sun and moon on the top of a staff” and asks what we offer to this troubled and confused world?

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Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: how can Dogen, and seven wise princesses, help us be fully alive and express the "dream within a dream"?

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Shinmon Michael Newton asks that we get past "zero sum thinking" the better to cultivate and encourage buddha nature, wherever and whenever we can.

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"How can I express the dream of this life?"

Myoshin Kate McCandless offers an exploration of what Dogen calls "twining vines" - the entanglement of our karmic lives and the intertwined nature of awake…

Shinmon Michael Newton explores how, by taking a step backwards and shining the light inwards, we might realize the nature of Buddha.

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For the 1st Wednesday evening of MRZC's Genzo-e, Myoshin Kate McCandless explores how perhaps we are "within a dream expressing a dream".

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