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2025.12.07 | Rohatsu Ceremony | Nishijima Roshi on the Buddha's Enlightenment | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-12-02 I Inquiry I Go to the Limits of your Longing I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
2025-12-01 | Depth In Practice| Not Two: The Appamada Story by Appamada
2025-11-30 | Dharma Talk | Shuzen is Not Zazen | Ellen Hippard by Appamada
2025-11-24 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story by Appamada
2025-11-25 I Inquiry I Bodhichitta Blessings I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada
2025-11-23 | Dharma Talk | Black Holes, Basic Goodness, and the Perfection of Wisdom | Jon-Eric Steinbomer by Appamada
2025-11-18 I Inquiry I It is our shared pain that is the cord of our belonging I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
2025-11-16 | Dharma Transmission Talk | Nathan Hōshin Kōnen Smalley by Appamada
2025-11-04 I Inquiry I Meeting what is needed I Joel Barna by Appamada
2025-11-03 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-11-02 | Dharma Talk | Living in a Polarized World: Cultivation of the Delusion of Separation | Rosemarie Gardella Gates by Appamada
2025-10-27 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-10-28 I Inquiry I Zazen and Precepts I Flint Sparks by Appamada
Mercy has no hands, yet carries the whole mountain down to the quiet. All are welcome to the river's edge. Spelling note: Jessica cites from several sources, including by Cynthia Bourgeault.
W.H. Auden clip https://youtu.be/oWtVYYoJFl4?si=MkPur0C6uJFKddz0
2025-10-20 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-10-19 | Dharma Talk | Grace | Nate Smalley by Appamada
Songs arrive even in the mail box Songs keep coming even happy to be sad Josephine Foster
2025-10-13 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson by Appamada
Recording of Calling Out to Hungry Hearts by Krishna Das courtesy of Upaya Zen Center: https://youtu.be/2wI5zlF2eeQ?si=uK1PoeKDSyJMO_bw
Fred LaMotte 'My Ancestry DNA results came in. Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly. Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone. I am part larva, but part hummingbird too. There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow. My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine. Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin, but I didn't get his dimples. My loins are loaded with banyan seeds from Sri Lanka, but I descended from Ravanna, not Ram. My uncle is a mastodon. There are traces of white people in my saliva. 3.7 billion years ago I swirled in golden dust, dreaming of a planet overgrown with lingams and yonis. More recently, say 60,000 B.C. I walked on hairy paws across a land bridge joining Sweden to Botswana. I am the bastard of the sun and moon. I can no longer hide my heritage of raindrops and cougar scat. I am made of your grandmother's tears. You conquered rival tribesmen of your own color, chained them together, marched them naked to the coast, and sold them to colonials from Savannah. I was that brother you sold, I was the slave trader, I was the chain. Admit it, you have wings, vast and golden, like mine, like mine. You have sweat, black and salty, like mine, like mine. You have secrets silently singing in your blood, like mine, like mine. Don't pretend that earth is not one family. Don't pretend we never hung from the same branch. Don't pretend we don't ripen on each other's breath. Don't pretend we didn't come here to forgive.'
2025-05-12| Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-10-06 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-10-05 | Dharma Talk | Sin and Repentance | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-09-30 I Inquiry I Joel Barna by Appamada
2025-09-29 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-09-28 | Dharma Talk | Bodhisattva Check-In | Joel Barna by Appamada
2025-09-23 I Inquiry I Being ourselves at Gate A-4 I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada
2025-09-22 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-09-15 | Fall '25 Intensive | Shikantaza | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-09-16 | Fall '25 Intensive | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-09-17 | Fall '25 Integrated Intensive | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-09-18 | Fall '25 Integrated Intensive | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-09-19 | Fall '25 Integrated Intensive | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-09-20 | Fall '25 Integrated Intensive | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-09-20 | Fall '25 Intensive | Peg Syverson by Appamada
Kim's drawings available at https://blog.kimmosley.com.
Thanks to Pádraig Ó Tuama, August 24, 2025 on Substack.
2025-09-14 | Dharma Talk | Who Are the Earth Store Bodhisattvas? | Peg Syverson by Appamada
2025-05-12 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-09-09 I Inquiry I Take Care How You Place Your Feet in the Zendo I Josh Gifford by Appamada
2025-09-08 | Depth In Practice | Virmalakirti Sutra by Appamada
2025-09-07 | Dharma Talk | Worship & Transmission | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2025-09-02 I Inquiry I Compassion has no enemies I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
2025-09-01 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
Koan was from The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Koun Yamada. Case 7: Joshu's Washing the Bowls. Reflection questions: 1) What were you looking for when you first entered the monastery/practice/zen center? 2) How would you have reacted to this teaching back then? 3) Do you notice any resistance from you or a part of you to this? 4) How do you respond to this teaching now? What's alive in you? 5) Utilizing this koan, what could this teaching mean for your practice?
2025-08-26 I Inquiry I suffering and love I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada
2025-08-25 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra by Appamada
Some readings referenced in this talk can be found in the Appamada chant book: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c03ced75ffd204418037b7a/t/5c523209898583e0ceeb37bd/1548890634577/Appamada+Chant+Book.pdf
three poems referenced : You Reading This be ready ~ William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts? When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day. This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life – What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around? Shoulders ~ Naomi Shihab Nye A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow. This man carries the world's most sensitive cargo but he's not marked. Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE. His ear fills up with breathing. He hears the hum of a boy's dream deep inside him. We're not going to be able to live in this world if we're not willing to do what he's doing with one another. The road will only be wide. The rain will never stop falling. Praying ~Mary Oliver It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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