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Recorded: April 23rd, 2008
Speakers: Beate Seishin Stolte
Show: 78

Beate Seishin Stolte, Vice Abbot of Upaya Zen Center
Beate references several koans in this talk about the quality
of aliveness and how it is measured in degrees of awareness and awakeness.
Our aliveness arises in direct proportion to the quality of selflessness
or self-forgetting in us.

selflessness
koan

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 An Evening with Natalie Goldberg and Wendy Johnson [00:36:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1038)

Recorded: April 16th, 2008
Speakers: An Evening with Natalie Goldberg and Wendy Johnson
Show: 77

Authors and Zen practitioners, Natalie Goldberg and Wendy Johnson share stories and readings from their newly released books: Old Friend From Far Away and Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, respectively. As the talk progresses we learn from the authors that the themes of the two books: writing memoir and gardening are not really what the books are about…

Natalie Goldberg
Wendy Johnson

 

 Causing the Rubbertree to Bloom [00:57:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (630)

Recorded: April 9th, 2008
Speakers: Joan Halifax
Show: 81

Vice Abbot Beate Seishin Stolte discusses the need to understand our fundamental loneliness in order to practice Zen. She emphasizes that we need to understand and practice the lineage of the ancestors which requires us to discover the true attitudes and vision of Zen practice.

Zen practice

 

 Plum Blossoms Fall [00:52:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1272)

Recorded: April 9th, 2008
Speakers: Joan Halifax
Show: 79

Roshi relates her recent experience at Eihei-ji Monastery in Japan,
founded by Eihei Dogen, father of the Soto Zen school. Experiences
at the monastery illuminate a realization and experience of
continuities punctuated by the natural cycles of seasonal change.

Eihei Dogen
Soto Zen