Radiance Of The Dark

October 14-18, 2009 | Springs Mountain Sangha | Colorado Springs, CO The koans are full of bodies — walking bodies, sitting bodies, dreaming bodies — and each koan is a body itself. How big is the koan body, and where are you located in it? As bounded, embodied beings, how do we live in the boundless realms, traditionally called lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity? How do we embodied beings sanctify each other, supporting each other’s wholeness, and holiness?

October 14-18, 2009 | Springs Mountain Sangha | Colorado Springs, CO The koans are full of bodies — walking bodies, sitting bodies, dreaming bodies — and each koan is a body itself. How big is the koan body, and where are you located in it? As bounded, embodied beings, how do we live in the boundless realms, traditionally called lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity? How do we embodied beings sanctify each other, supporting each other’s wholeness, and holiness?

October 14-18, 2009 | Springs Mountain Sangha | Colorado Springs, CO The koans are full of bodies — walking bodies, sitting bodies, dreaming bodies — and each koan is a body itself. How big is the koan body, and where are you located in it? As bounded, embodied beings, how do we live in the boundless realms, traditionally called lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity? How do we embodied beings sanctify each other, supporting each other’s wholeness, and holiness?

October 14-18, 2009 | Springs Mountain Sangha | Colorado Springs, CO The koans are full of bodies — walking bodies, sitting bodies, dreaming bodies — and each koan is a body itself. How big is the koan body, and where are you located in it? As bounded, embodied beings, how do we live in the boundless realms, traditionally called lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity? How do we embodied beings sanctify each other, supporting each other’s wholeness, and holiness?

July - August 2009 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM While we can fall into hell in an instant, we can also fall into heaven. Classical Buddhism identified four states of mind that tend towards heaven : equanimity, compassion, lovingkindness, and sympathetic joy. These are the Brahma Viharas, the noble abodes.

May - June 2009 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM /*Xinxinming*/, or Trust in Mind, is one of Chan’s foundational texts. What is it like to trust your own heart-mind, and the heart-mind of the universe — which are, after all, the same thing? The text opens that exploration with one of Chan’s most provocative declarations : The Great Way is not difficult if you don’t pick and choose. What does that mean? subjects: mind, Sengcan, self, faith, picking and choosing, Great Way, dukkha, Seung Sahn, Heart Sutra, duality

May - June 2009 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM /*Xinxinming*/, or Trust in Mind, is one of Chan’s foundational texts. What is it like to trust your own heart-mind, and the heart-mind of the universe — which are, after all, the same thing? The text opens that exploration with one of Chan’s most provocative declarations : The Great Way is not difficult if you don’t pick and choose. What does that mean? subjects: mind, Sengcan, self, faith, picking and choosing, Great Way, dukkha, Seung Sahn, Heart Sutra, duality

May - June 2009 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM /*Xinxinming*/, or Trust in Mind, is one of Chan’s foundational texts. What is it like to trust your own heart-mind, and the heart-mind of the universe — which are, after all, the same thing? The text opens that exploration with one of Chan’s most provocative declarations : The Great Way is not difficult if you don’t pick and choose. What does that mean? subjects: mind, Sengcan, self, faith, picking and choosing, Great Way, dukkha, Seung Sahn, Heart Sutra, duality

May - June 2009 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM /*Xinxinming*/, or Trust in Mind, is one of Chan’s foundational texts. What is it like to trust your own heart-mind, and the heart-mind of the universe — which are, after all, the same thing? The text opens that exploration with one of Chan’s most provocative declarations : The Great Way is not difficult if you don’t pick and choose. What does that mean? subjects: mind, Sengcan, self, faith, picking and choosing, Great Way, dukkha, Seung Sahn, Heart Sutra, duality