Mountains Talking

Assistant teacher Dennis Sienko on intimacy with the animate and inanimate.

Assistant teacher Geoff Keeton on the transformative power of narrative.

Josh Mather on case 7 in the Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s “Wash your bowl.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on Vimalakirti's "I am ill because the world is ill."

Peggy Metta Sheehan on "Stop the sound of the distant temple bell."

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the true nature of wind.

Assistant teacher Cathy Wright on case 1 in the Gateless Barrier, "Chao-chou's Mu."

Cathy Wright on case 17 of the Gateless Barrier, "The National Teacher Calls Three Times."

Dennis Sienko on Christianity and Zen.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 37 of the Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou's "Oak tree in the garden."

Cathy Wright on case 5 in The Blue Cliff Record, "Seppo's Grain of Rice."

Dennis Sienko on the practice of just sitting and the question of who you are.

Bill Hamaker on the life and teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Joel Tagert on the wartime statements of Japanese Zen teachers, spiritual warriorship and the Middle Way.

Geoff Keeton on case 17 of The True Dharma Eye, "Xiangyan's Great Enlightenment."

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 86 in the Blue Cliff Record, Yunmen's "Everyone has their own light."

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the fourth of the Four Vows.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on the third of the Four Vows.

Cathy Wright on the second of the Four Vows.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the first of the Four Vows.

Karin Roshi takes up case 1 in The Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou's Mu.

Assistant teacher Bill Hamaker takes up Dogen's Fukanzazengi, "A Universal Recommendation for Zazen."

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