Dharma Talks

The Vedana , or feeling tone, of an experience is the instinctual sorting of that experience into a category: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Most of the time we are not aware that we sort our experiences like this, but the feeling tone nevertheless guides our actions in the world. When we become mindful of this largely unconscious sorting, we see into impermanence, let go of the idea of the separate self, and cultivate equanimity.

Final talk on the Brahma Vihara’s that include kindness, compassion and joy and equanimity. Seido talks about how the mind of equanimity,...

Guest teacher, Abby Mushin Terris, from Sangha Jewel Zen Center unfolds a number of salient passages from Dogen’s Tenzo Kyokun including...

Seido continues with Uchiyama Roshi’s commentary on the Tenzo Kyokun where he says that Big Mind, or Daishin, this attitude of...