Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast
Presented by the Mountain Rain Zen Community based in Vancouver, BC. Featuring talks by our guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, and other guest speakers.
To learn more about our community, explore our extensive teaching archive, and offer your support, visit http://mountainrainzen.org.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 165
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Zen Poetry through the Ages (1/6): Classical Chinese Chan Poetry
First part of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless.
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The Leap of Faith
Jikai Vicki Turay, Mayne Island, BC dweller and longtime MRZC practitioner, delivers a dharma talk on the tender balance between doubt and faith and how we can cultivate the confidence to step off t…
The Precepts and Continuous Practice
After a month of studying Dogen’s fascicle on Continuous Practice—and just hours before a jukai ceremony in which five members of MRZC will formally receive the bodhisattva precepts— Guiding Teacher …
Way Seeking Mind Talk with Hofu Louise Day
How does zen practice lead to the whole body smiling with all it is? Hofu Louise Day shares some of her life experiences - from sitting with Suzuki Roshi when still in highschool, to finding inner pe…
Bodhisattvas Without Borders
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and featuring poems by Ukrainian poets, Myoshin Kate McCandless examines how a bodhisattva might move in the world.
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