The Red Maple-casts: Recent Episodes
Innen Parchelo
We are the home of Tendai-shu in Canada. Our talks cover Dharma topics, mindfulness and ethical living. Our current series is Practicing the Precepts and is presented by Rev. Innen Parchelo and Jiho Duff. You can read the texts of all talks at this link http://redmaplesangha.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html
In this episode, Innen and Jiho discuss the 5th precept and how we need to attend to the presence of material poisons, like substance use, and immaterial poisons, like harmful thoughts.
IN this episode, Innen and Jiho consider the importance of symmetry between thoughts and speech.
Our Dharma Talk Series for 2017 explores the Eightfold Path, The Lay Precepts and The Dhammapada. In this episode we examine the precept - giving(dana). Your presenters are Rev. Innen Parchelo and Jiho Duff
Our Dharma Talk Series for 2017 explores the Eightfold Path, The Lay Precepts and The Dhammapada. In this episode we introduce the first precept - non-harm Your presenters are Rev. Innen Parchelo and Jiho Duff
Our Dharma Talk Series for 2017 explores the Eightfold Path, The Lay Precepts and The Dhammapada. In this episode we introduce the Dhammapada, its contents and history. Your presenters are Rev. Innen Parchelo and Jiho Duff
Our Dharma Talk Series for 2017 explores the Eightfold Path, The Lay Precepts and The Dhammapada. In this episode we introduce the series. Your presenters are Rev. Innen Parchelo and Jiho Duff
In this episode we draw on understanding the Pali meaning of sati and modern theories of memory in the brain to explore how visualizing is an act of memory and remembrance.
This episode examines visualization practices in the Pure Land, Zen and Tendai traditions of Japan, showing that it is valued and practiced in all schools.
In this talk we explore the scientific evidence, especially from brain and cognitive sciences, that informs the practices of visualization
In this episode we step outside the text itself and explore the contemporary history of its creation, in particular, the emergence of the property-holding caste and the valuing of images of the Buddha.
In this episode, we meet Seishi, one of the two bodisattva attendants who flank Amitabha in the Sutra and in the Taima-dera Mandala.
In the episode we meet the bodhisattva Dharmakara and how his vow leads to the arising of Amitabha Buddha.
In this first of a four-part series we begin to explore the presentation of history and time in the sutra, especially as this shapes the image of Amitabha Buddha.