December 20, 2020
Pandemic Time Melting and Freezing
2020 put many of us in a time warp that will run well into 2021. What’s going on, really? And how does daily Zen practice help us ride the waves? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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December 20, 2020
2020 put many of us in a time warp that will run well into 2021. What’s going on, really? And how does daily Zen practice help us ride the waves? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
December 17, 2020
Roshi’s weekly podcast on the pandemic. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript
December 13, 2020
December 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.
December 6, 2020
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
December 2, 2020
A look back at the waves–and people’s reactions to them–in the last pandemic, so remarkably similar to today. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 28, 2020
A look at the several elements of the ceremony. The ten cardinal precepts are examined in the context of the “five trials” of 2020: the pandemic; its financial consequences; the intensifying effects of climate change; the clearer revelation of systemic racism and its ongoing wounds; and the alarming rise of political divisiveness. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 24, 2020
New Zealand’s Pandemic Success Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 15, 2020
Biden and Trump are dramatically different in character, but they have in common, with us, the True Self that is No-self. And all of us are continuously evolving and devolving through the world of samsara. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 11, 2020
November 2020 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 10, 2020
November 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.