Sunrise Meditation on Siesta Key Beach

Posted on October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 by Will

“Throw Out Your Crazy Mind!” A Zen Talk by Daito Zenei Osho on cultivating the path to enlightenment. Sunrise Meditation on Siesta Key Beach & BYOB (Breakfast) Event When: Sun, November 10, 6:30am – 7:30am Where: Siesta Key Beach (map) Description Please join Reverend Thompson and members of the SZC sangha for a sunrise meditation on Siesta […]

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Feel fully, all of it!

Posted on September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 by Will

They say ” Where ever you go there you are”. So it doesn’t matter where on the planet you are, you can be happy or not, the place isn’t the important part. Chasing after (clinging to) what you think is good, ( positive emotional responses) and avoiding what you think is bad, (negative emotional responses) […]

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Zazen Is Good for Nothing

Posted on July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 by Will

I particularly like the translations of Dogen’s work by Shohaku Okumura. Here is a podcast of a Dharma Talk at the San Francisco Zen Center. Dharma Talk given by Shohaku Okumura on Sunday, March 17, 2013 at Green Gulch Farms. http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=1,10&pageid=3734

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Ox herding

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Will

The ten Ox herding Pictures: http://www.buddhism.org/board/read.cgi?board=glossary&y_number=46

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dharma talk by the Rev. Daito Zenei Thompson

Posted on April 21, 2013April 21, 2013 by Will

Sarasota now has a Soto Zen Center. The Sarasota Zen Center will be inaugurated on May 3 with a dharma talk by the Rev. Daito Zenei Thompson at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota*. The title of his talk will be “The Significance and Importance of Zen Training.” The talk is free and open to […]

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