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2022-06-20 | Depth in Practice | The Light Inside the Dark | John Tarrant by Appamada

2022-06-21 I Inquiry I The Whole World is Medicine I Flint Sparks by Appamada

2022-06-12 Jizo Ceremony | LaurieWinnette by Appamada

“It’s not all that hard to get enlightened; what is difficult is to keep giving up our sense of the world so that the world can come to us on its own terms, with its vast, pitiless, loving intelligence…we return to the simplest things with an immense recognition and gratitude…” [Stephen Mitchell in “The Light Inside the Dark” by John Tarrant, p. xv]

2022-06-13 | Depth in Practice | The Light Inside the Darkness | John Tarrant by Appamada

“What I refer to, or point toward when I speak in these terms is the tender experience I see in each of us — in you — when something breaks through to your heart, inviting tears to begin to form in your eyes, and causes a warm sense of well-being or goodness to gently flood into your body. That very real, visceral and emotional experience is the only evidence I have of something that may very well issue initially from my thoughts but seems to go well beyond them into an intimate space that is hard to touch, like the sounds of the gongs. You can feel those vibrations and even describe them, but they are more than your descriptions and more than your sensory responses, and that is part of their beauty. Hence, the “embodied inconceivable.” That is no mystery. It is the longed for and treasured conversations we share, moving through our individual bodies and through the space our bodies make together. It is the forrest, the sky, the ocean and wind, and the entire contingent universe we find ourselves in — togeth

20220606 | Depth In Practice | The Light That Shines Through Infinity | Katagiri by Appamada

2022-05-29 Memorial For 31 People Killed In Mass Shootings | Robin Bradford by Appamada

2022-05-31 I Inquiry I What Is Spiritual Practice? I Flint Sparks by Appamada

2022-05-30 | Depth In Practice | The Light That Shines Through Infinity | Katagiri by Appamada

2022-05-22 Dharma Talk | Joel Barna | Not-Self And Emptiness by Appamada

2022-05-15 Dharma Talk | Laurie Winnette by Appamada

2022-05-08 Dharma Talk | Ann Lipscomb | Metta Sutta by Appamada

2022-05-24 | Precept Class 11 | Todd Bankler by Appamada

2022-05-23 | Depth In Practice | The Light That Shines Through Infinity | Katagiri by Appamada

The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess ~ Rick Fields Link to the poem read http://www.gritfish.com/index.php/deep-ecology/poets-view/2455-rick-fields

Two poems from talk: Shaped by love ~Trudy Johnston Shaped by love, Are we clay spinning on a wheel? Then where is the wheel, whose hands Are shaping this soft earth, Is the supple earth Choosing? Are we wood, with a craftsman’s hands Revealing through the grain And the sharp blows Of a chisel, the faces Of hidden love, Are we river beds, Shaped by the tumbling waters Meeting hardness And softness as we plunge towards The waiting sea. Life, life is hands And chisels And earth banks Holding and revealing What cannot be known, Only relinquishing Knowing Allows our full shape to emerge. The Question ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for Jude Jordan Kalush All day, I replay these words: Is this the path of love? I think of them as I rise, as I wake my children, as I wash dishes, as I drive too close behind the slow blue Subaru, Is this the path of love? Think of these words as I stand in line at the grocery store, think of them as I sit on the couch with my daughter. Amazing how quickly six words becom

2022-05-16 | Depth In Practice | The Light That Shines Through Infinity | Katagiri by Appamada

2022-05-10 I Inquiry I Self Compassion is Always There I Flint Sparks by Appamada

2022-05-09 | Depth In Practice | The Light That Shines Through Infinity | Katagiri by Appamada