Zenkai (November 13, 2022) with Madelon – 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 current Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule. Guidelines are likely to change before the event, so check again as the date gets closer. 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...
Read MoreZenkai (January 8, 2023) with guest Diamond Sangha Teacher Joe Bobrow – 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 current Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule. Guidelines are likely to change before the event, so check again as the date gets closer. Zenkai with guest Diamond Sangha teacher Joe Bobrow to introduce some of the themes in a new book of his, with all invited to participate in discussion. The book presents Joe’s integrative approach to the interweaving of: · practice, insight, and social action · awakening and embodiment · ...
Read MoreUntil Only the Mountain Remains – A Talk by Leland Shields
Until Only the Mountain Remains Leland Shields, September 16, 2022 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Translated by Sam Hamill, Poetry Foundation article 178390 I’ve brought this 8th century poem by Li Po to several talks recently. Apparently I can’t get enough of it. It carries a patient persistence that is essential for a retreat. Over the hours, zazen can be dynamic, motivated, boring, dozey…all are zazen. All support the quiet attention without theory or strategy. No strategy is...
Read MoreTouch the Mind – A Talk by Leland Shields
Touch the Mind Leland Shields – September 15,2022 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth and every common sight, To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The Glory and the freshness of a dream, It is not now as it hath been of yore; – Turn wheresoe’er I may, By night or day. The things which I have seen I now can see no more Wordsworth; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45536/ode-intimations-of-immortality-from-recollections-of-early-childhood I begin the talk today not with words of our ancestors from the east, but with an early 19th century poem by...
Read MoreDistractions: Meeting With Mara – a Talk by Madelon Bolling
What ails you? Lack of faith in yourself is what ails you. If you lack faith in yourself, you’ll keep on tumbling along, following in bewilderment after all kinds of circumstances and being taken by them through transformation after transformation without ever attaining freedom. Bring to rest the thoughts of the ceaselessly seeking mind . . . The Record of Lin-chi, (Discourse X) Awareness practices fascinated me when I was quite young, due in part to being very near-sighted and in part to being a natural-born introvert. I say “awareness practices” but this doesn’t mean I knew beans about the...
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