Dharma Talks

Debra Seido Martin is Zen West's Guiding Teacher. She was transmitted in 2009 by Kyogen Carlson, late Abbott of Dharma Rain Zen Center. Seido is an organic farmer and psychotherapist devoted to the wild and giving space of practice and grace of the land. She carries forward her teacher’s directive to “ordain into your life.”

Four Foundations: Mindful of The Five Skandhas

This mindfulness teaching helps us study our human tendency to develop and cling to a separate self, the source of much suffering. In the classical teachings, we humans interpret our experience through the simultaneous workings of body (senses and sense objects), feeling tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral), perception (labels, expectations), mental formations (decisions based on impulse, past conditioning, mind-states, narrative), and consciousness (simple awareness). Observ

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