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Discussion Notes April 7th – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Bowing, Nothing Special, Single-Minded Way, Repetition, Zen and Excitement
Oatmeal, shaved cats, and pizza… how couldn’t this evening be enjoyable. Tonight’s discussion brought you by the following shaved cats: Dogen Coldstream, Renwick Tomsen, Danaeah Ballinger, Solari Georgia, and me. [17:59] Dharma Voyager: hey there [17:59] Danaeah Ballinger: Hi Dharma [17:59] Dharma Voyager: howdy brb let me check e-mail [18:00] Dharma Voyager: I don’t think [...]
Discussion Notes March 31st – Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind – Control through No Dualism
Just be glad this discussion was not held on April fool’s day, who knows what would have been discussed Tonight’s Zen minds was brought to you by : Dogen Coldstream, Renwick Tomsen, Danaeah Ballinger, and me. [18:04] Renwick Tomsen: Hi Dharma [18:04] Dharma Voyager: howdy howdy [18:04] Danaeah Ballinger: Hi Dharma [18:04] Danaeah Ballinger: Solari [...]
Discussion Notes March 24rh – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
I have been really excited about reading this book with the group. It has been a long time since I have read it, and with my memory I’m not sure that reading it before really counts. The thing I do remember is that it is an extraordinary book. I can use the word extraordinary” with [...]
Discussion Notes March 17th – Big Sit Dharma Talk Week 2
This weeks discussion is about the dharma talk given by Enkyo Roshi for the second week of the Tricycle Magazine’s Big Sit challenge. The quotes bellow are from the big sit dharma talk. Tonight’s quick and deep discussion brought to you by : Dogen Coldstream, stevenaia Michinaga, Renwick Tomsen, Solari Georgia, Danaeah Ballinger, AuroraSkye [...]
Discussion Notes March 10th – Big Sit Dharma Talk Week 1
After the amount of people who have been gathering the last couple weeks this turned out to balance out with a small group for the evening. Because of the format change a little different focus it worked out all the better that it was four of the regulars tackling the first section of the Genjokoan. [...]
Discussion Points for March 17th- “Big Sit” Dharma Talk Week 2
This post is an extension of the little experiment for the March 10th SL Discussion Group. One of the group members recommended that we all contribute two discussion points from the audios/videos we listen to. I have created this blog entry so that discussion group participants can create comment entries for their discussion points. This [...]
Discussion Notes March 3rd – The Art of Happiness (Chap 14 & 15)
Well we finished up our fourth book. How cool is that? So now we have two weeks of audio from the big sit to discuss then we are on to the next book, the classic “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.” It is almost a perfect time with the “Zen” focus of the Big Sit. For those [...]
Discussion Points for March 10th- “Big Sit” Dharma Talk Week 1
This post will be a little experiment for the March 10th SL Discussion Group. One of the group memebers recommended that we all contribute two discussion points from the audtios/videos we listen to. I have created this blog entry so that memebers can create comment entries with their discussion points. This weeks Dharma talk: http://community.tricycle.com/video/big-sit-dharma-talk-week1 [...]
