May 24, 2020
Pandemics: A High-Altitude View
An overview of history’s most devastating pandemics, and a look at the timelessness of Camus’ The Plague. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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May 24, 2020
An overview of history’s most devastating pandemics, and a look at the timelessness of Camus’ The Plague. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
May 13, 2020
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
May 10, 2020
There is just this, here, now. That is our freedom. Yet we can live it while acknowledging our interdependence with others, being grateful to those before us and around us while also responsible for those after us. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
May 3, 2020
How much might the fear of losing oneself — of not being — drive our longing to leave home even during a pandemic? The denial of death and the craving for life: two sides of one coin. (Contributions from Brother David Steindl-Rast and Steven Levine.) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
May 2, 2020
Advice from an astronaut and others on maintaining a consistent schedule. Also: excerpts and comments from Roshi Robert Aitken’s book Encouraging Words. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.
April 30, 2020
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
April 26, 2020
Staying in touch with our shared humanity rather than indulging in outrage and separation. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.
April 23, 2020
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
April 19, 2020
After the U.S.’s decades of affluenza (“a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more”), to what extent might our experience of the coronavirus and isolation inoculate us from its resurgence? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
April 15, 2020
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.