Taking Part in the Gathering, Term 2, 2024.
4-5:30PM, 2nd & 4th Sundays, from June 9th
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Winter Term: The practice of ripening 4-5:30PM Sundays - June 9 & 23, July 14 & 28, August 11th, (25th Day of Practice)
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4-5:30PM, 2nd & 4th Sundays, from June 9th
ZOC Zoom Dojo
About
Taking Part – Winter Term of Practice: The practice of ripening
Just as Zhaozhou said, “I do not dwell in enlightenment”, and then asked, “Can you value this without reservation?”, a bodhisattva finds themselves standing firmly in the place of ‘no special ability’. Otherwise, clearly hearing and agreeing to hear the cries of the world becomes subtly dimmed, distanced, muted.
In Autumn, we followed a rich thread that opened from the ‘found’ koan, “Good grief!” To reconcile “good” with all the many sorrows of the world, what state of mind is it that lets the two heal into each other, a mind of not-two… and even less than one?
Is this mind to be regarded as some special ability? Or may it be most natural, and continually disappearing into that fact --- and if so, how should we offer ourselves to this subtle business of letting naturalness carry us?
The Buddha named the four truly…
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Sliding Scale $80-$160
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