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2017 Autumn Sesshin – Maggie Gluek, roshi – Non-attained Buddha
Teisho by Maggie Gluek, roshi ‘Xing Yang’s non attained Buddha’ Case 9 from Wu-men kuan or The Gateless Barrier
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Blog – Standing Your Ground, Maggie Gluek
‘Encouraging Words from the Teacher’ was published in the June/July 2017 Newsletter: An oft told story in these parts—and recently told at the autumn sesshin– is that concerning Hsueh-feng, snowed in with his dharma brother and mentor Yen-tou at a place called Turtle Mountain. While Yen-t’ou snoozed, Hsueh-feng spent most of the time doing zazen. “What are you doing sitting like a
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2017 Autumn Sesshin – Subhana Barzaghi, roshi – Faith Mind
Teisho by Subhana Barzaghi, roshi ‘Verses on the Faith Mind’ from Hsin-hsin Mind by Zen Master Seng-ts’an
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Zazenkai – Jane Andino musician
Musican and Zen practitioner Jane Andino has called her talk ‘Singing and Dancing are the voice of the Law’. Jane discusses and plays an excerpt of one of her compositions related to this quote from Hakuin’s ‘Song of Zazen’. She also explores ‘what is thought that is no-thought?’ and Tung Shan’s Five Modes.
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Blog – Questions of Resurrection & Rebirth, Subhana Barzaghi
Chapelle du Rosarie: Questions of Resurrection and Rebirth An essay by Subhana Barzaghi, first published in Mind Moon Circle Spring 2016 edition. – One of my primary reasons for coming to the old historic village of Vence which is located on the slopes of the Côte d’Azur France was to see and to sit in the Chapelle du Rosarie, also
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Blog – Inside the Brushwood Gate, Gillian Coote
Inside the Brushwood Gate An essay by Gillian Coote, Roshi. First published in Mind Moon Circle, Spring 2016 Yunmen said: Medicine and sickness mutually correspond. The whole world is medicine. What is the self? (1) And at the end of the day in sesshin, we are reminded: Birth and death is the Great Matter. All things pass quickly away.
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2016 Spring Sesshin – Gillian Coote, roshi – Kingyu’s Rice Bucket
Teisho by Gillian Coote, roshi ‘Kingyu’s Rice Bucket Blue Cliff Record #74 Play and imagination are the Way. Wu-men said “At the very cliff edge of birth-and-death, you find the Great Freedom. In the Six Worlds and the Four Modes of Birth, you enjoy a samadhi of frolic and play.” Yes – singing and dancing are the voice of the law.
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2016 Spring Sesshin – Gillian Coote, roshi – Step off the Pole
Teisho by Gillian Coote, roshi ‘Step from the Top of the Pole’ Mumonkuan #46/Book of Serenity #79: How do you live Hakuin Zenji’s ‘this very body, the Buddha’ when you step off the 100-foot pole and out into life, making your way into difficult places, amongst difficult people or when you snuggle up with your beloved, or ease yourself
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2016 Spring Sesshin – Gillian Coote, roshi – Medicine & Sickness
Teisho by Gillian Coote, roshi ‘Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness’ #87 Book of Serenity I came down with a mysterious and painful condition earlier in the year. Coming out of the surgery in intensive care after three days, I knew nothing about any of this because I’d been taken emergency in a delirious state of mind. At first, coming round after the
