(Short) Grief, Anger, and Fear
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk during the week of the Uvalde, TX school shooting. (May 26, 2022)
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(Short) See Difficulties as Buddha
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk, reflecting on how we can hold confusion and difficulty in vast Awareness. (May 25, 2022)
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Self-Compassion
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig speaks about how, by more fully meeting our own pain and suffering, we can bring more genuine compassion to the pain and suffering of others. (May 21, 2022)
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Nothing but Lies and Falsehoods
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Ed Oberholtzer speaks about the Zen Precept of not speaking falsely. (May 18, 2022)
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(Short) Cultivating Gratitude
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about how cultivating gratitude is part of cultivating compassion. (May 16, 2022)
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Three Poisons, Three Strengths
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Julie Nelson speaks about how identifying our own tendencies in regard to the Three Poisons (greed, anger, and ignorance), and treating them tenderly, can unlock our strengths. (May 14, 2022)
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Affirming Faith in Mind II
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Jeff Seul continues speaking about Sengcan's "Affirming Faith in Mind." (May 7, 2022)
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(Short) Turning Toward the Hard Stuff
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk addressing how turning toward the difficulty in our life can open us to a life of compassion. (May 2, 2022)
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Affirming Faith in Mind
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Jeff Seul speaks about Sengcan's "Affirming Faith in Mind" (on p. 28 of the GBZC Sutra Book, 2019 Edition). (April 30, 2022)
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(Short) Tonglen
Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast
Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about the practice of "tonglen," which receives pain and suffering and transforms it into healing and compassion. (April 25, 2022)
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)