This the third talk in a Dharma series called “Scriptures, Sutras, Invocations – Chanted, Spoken, Unspoken”, prepared by Reverend Helen Cummings for the Bear River Meditation Group in July, 2017 Talk 3: Unspoken Scriptures and Unsung Sutras and Our Practice Books! The printed page! And by extension, a well packaged audio presentation – YouTube or a… Continue reading Talk Three: Unspoken Scriptures and Unsung Sutras and Our Practice by Reverend Helen Cummings
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Talk Two: Sung Scriptures, Litanies, Invocations and Our Practice by Reverend Helen Cummings
This is the second of three Dharma offerings in the series Scriptures, Sutras, Invocations – Chanted, Spoken, Unspoken by Reverend Helen Cummings, a Senior Teacher of Buddhism at Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery. The text version of the teaching is below. Link to Audio Talk 2: Sung Scriptures, Litanes, Invocations and Our Practice For centuries the monks… Continue reading Talk Two: Sung Scriptures, Litanies, Invocations and Our Practice by Reverend Helen Cummings
Talk One: Recited Scriptures and Our Practice by Rev. Helen Cummings
This is the first of three Dharma offerings in the series Scriptures, Sutras, Invocations – Chanted, Spoken, Unspoken by Reverend Helen Cummings, a Senior Teacher of Buddhism at Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery. The text version of the teaching is below. Link to Audio. Talk 1: Recited Scriptures and Our Practice The Scripture on the… Continue reading Talk One: Recited Scriptures and Our Practice by Rev. Helen Cummings
The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 4 by RM Shiko Rom
This is the final talk on the Noble Eightfold Path. Today I’m going to talk about the Concentration group, which consists of Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Meditation, the last three factors of the Path. The Buddha spoke about Right Effort as the effort to abandon unwholesome states and to encourage wholesome states. It… Continue reading The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 4 by RM Shiko Rom
The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 3 by RM Shiko Rom
This is the third talk on the Noble Eightfold Path. Today I will be talking about the moral discipline group, which consists of Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood. In the Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen) tradition, the 16 Precepts would need to be included in what we think of as moral discipline. These… Continue reading The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 3 by RM Shiko Rom
The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 2 by RM Shiko Rom
This is the second talk on the Noble Eightfold Path. Today I’m going to talk about Right Understanding and Right Thought, the first two steps or factors of the Path, which make up what is called the Wisdom group. The eight Path factors are: Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right… Continue reading The Noble Eightfold Path, Talk 2 by RM Shiko Rom
The Noble Eightfold Path – Text for the first of four Dharma talks by RM Shiko Rom
This is the first of the four talks I’ll be offering on the Noble Eightfold Path. I would like to start by going over the Four Noble Truths because the Noble Eightfold Path is the fourth of these Truths and can’t really be separated from the other three. The Buddha discovered these Truths on the… Continue reading The Noble Eightfold Path – Text for the first of four Dharma talks by RM Shiko Rom
Dharma Camp by Roger Groghan
1 23 16 By The Fire Cooler with showers and bits of mist around we are in a beyond the gates retreat a semi-monastic experiment the Dharma Shop with tools and a bell housing herders and oxen going in and out of the world as it is and in and out of the zendo as… Continue reading Dharma Camp by Roger Groghan
One-handed Left-handed Omelette Making: Practicing in ordinary daily life by Kim Woodward
I had surgery on my right wrist about a week ago. This is the same reconstructive surgery I had on my left wrist eight months ago. After the surgery they wrapped my wrist in a rigid splint. I’m not supposed to do anything with my right hand for the next four weeks. The first two… Continue reading One-handed Left-handed Omelette Making: Practicing in ordinary daily life by Kim Woodward
Self by Kim Woodward
Am I myself? Or is that me looking back from the window pane? Surely I am real for I can pull the shade. And yet, who is pulling the shade?