A Woman Comes Out of Samadhi
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson speaks about bliss states, why we need to come out of them, and why perfect wisdom can't do the job. (March 28, 2023)
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(Short) Trauma and Grief
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson talks about not using our practice to try to bypass our trauma and grief. (March 24, 2023)
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(Short) When Jealous, Choose Joy
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig advises that we can work with jealousy by choosing the opposite, sympathetic joy. (March 22, 2023)
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Tying Yourself Up Without a Rope
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig speaks about the ways we bind ourselves up and prevent our own liberation. (March 9, 2023)
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(Short) Fear and Failure
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson speaks about becoming intimate with our failures. (March 17, 2023)
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(Short) Don't Wallow
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig speaks about the costs of wallowing in our pain. (March 15, 2023)
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(Short) A Fresh Perspective
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
This is a short talk (with no discussion) in which Julie Nelson comments on how traveling in Alaska woke her up to things taken for granted.(March 8, 2023)
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A Fresh Perspective
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson comments on how traveling in Alaska woke her up to things taken for granted. (February 28, 2023)
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(Discussion) What Inspires Your Practice?
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Karen McCormack leads a discussion of the question "What inspires your practice?" (with an introduction to this format by Jill Gaulding). (February 18, 2023)
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(Short) Don't Vacillate
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig gives encouragement to set an intention and commit to practice. (February 22, 2023)
info_outlineJulie Nelson speaks about our thoughts of gain and loss, and right and wrong. The text is Case 26 of The Gateless Gate, "Fayan Points to the Bamboo Screens." (September 18, 2021)