Zenkai (March 13, 2022) with Madelon Bolling – In Person and Zoom
Three Treasures Sangha will hold this event in-person at our Dharma Gate facility and live by Zoom. Registration information (for in-person) and Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule If you are able, please join all or part of this opportunity for intensive practice with others. Zoom Link: Send email to ttssangha@gmail.com. If this will be your first event with TTS, we will arrange for an orientation prior to the event. Schedule: 8:15 Samu – cleaning the dojo and your space or home 8:45 Gathering on Zoom...
Read MoreA Reality Even Prior . . . A Talk by Madelon Bolling
Blue Cliff Record, case 43 A monk asked Dongshan, “When cold and heat visit us, how should we avoid them?” Dongshan said, “Why not go where there is neither cold nor heat?” The monk asked, “Where is there neither cold nor heat?” Dongshan said, “When it is cold, the cold kills you. When it is hot, the heat kills you.” This is the start of a new year, our first zenkai in 2022. It’s so strange that even here, in this gathering dedicated to seeing through delusion, our most casual language casts a magical network of delicately nuanced...
Read MoreZenkai (February 13, 2022) with Lee Shields – In Person and Zoom
Three Treasures Sangha will hold this event in-person at our Dharma Gate facility and live by Zoom. Registration information (for in-person) and Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule If you are able, please join all or part of this opportunity for intensive practice with others. Zoom Link: Send email to ttssangha@gmail.com. If this will be your first event with TTS, we will arrange for an orientation prior to the event. Schedule: 8:15 Samu – cleaning the dojo and your space or home 8:45 Gathering on Zoom 8:55 Be...
Read MoreUsing the Mind to Seek the Mind — Isn’t That a Great Mistake? A Talk by Leland Shields – November 14, 2021
(This is taken from a passage in…) Verse of the Faith-Mind …Using the mind to seek the mind — isn’t that a great mistake? (Attributed to Chien-Chih Seng-ts’an], d. 606) Case 37 of the Gateless Barrier: The Oak Tree in Front of the Garden A monk asked Chao-Chou in all earnestness, “What is the meaning of the patriarch’s coming from the West?” Chao-Chou said, “The oak tree in the front of the garden.” (Robert Aitken, The Gateless Barrier, page 226) Case 43 of the Gateless Barrier: Shou-shan’s Short Bamboo Staff The priest Shou-shan held up his short bamboo staff before...
Read More“The only essential is that the gift must always move” – Annual donation to TTS
Whatever we have been given is supposed to be given away again. The only essential is that the gift must always move. —Lewis Hyde, The Gift Winter 2021 Dear TTS Members and Friends, It is that time of year once again, the days grow shorter, the leaves fall off the trees, and we approach another new year. I want to thank you all for the support you have given to TTS throughout this trying year. I also want to ask for your help and support in 2022 as we go forward without much certainty and without Jack as our teacher for the first time in about 30 years. We have deep gratitude beyond...
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