Last week weread part of the chapter titled "The Heart of Practice" from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh's classic book, Being Peace. He writes:
Without a cloud, there will be no water; without water, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in [this sheet of...
Special guest Sally Johnson joined us to share her experience with the work of teacher and author Reginald Ray. Here is an excerpt from Ray's book, The Awakening Body:
It is as if we are waking up, within our Soma [body], and we suddenly find ourselves in a new world. We are uncovering a comple...
Before and after tea, we brought our attention to walking meditation or kinhin (Japanese). Walking meditation is often done between periods of sitting, and because of that is sometimes seen as a kind of stretch break. But that misses a vital point of why we meditate at all: to be present in our...
After tea, we looked at a modern version of a technique called Chod, which was developed in the 11th century by Machig Labdron, one of Tibet's most well-known female mystics.
Lama Tsultrim Allione is a contemporary author and Buddhist teacher, and she created the Feeding Your Demons process (whi...