Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast

Mayne Island resident and longtime MRZC practice leader Jikai Vicki Turay continues our exploration of Opening the Hand of Thought by Japanese Zen teacher Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, diving into Uchiyama's discourse on the cultivation of sweet persimmons and how Buddhist practice can manifest and flourish in the West. This is part two of a ten week dharma seminar with MRZC guiding teache

Back from a recent trip to Europe, senior MRZC Priest and Sunshine Coast Resident Dai-i Flo Rublee reflects on homecoming, home-leaving, and how we are all just walking each other home. These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archiv

"Zazen is the self which is only the self of the universe." (Uchiyama) Shinmon Michael Newton introduces the book Opening the Hand of Thought by Japanese Zen teacher Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. This begins a ten week dharma seminar with MRZC guiding teachers and practice leaders. These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these te

In what way does our innate ability to nurture reflect the perfection of wisdom? Dharma Talk with Shinmon Michael Newton. These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and ac

Last of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless. What is zen poetry today in North America? How can we make zen poetry of everything? These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archi

Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the practice of restraint using the Kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum (Hebrew: contraction), and asks: can we understand restraint not as something externally imposed and enforced by fear, but internally chosen and based on care and concern? These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find val

Tosho Megan Adam is a writer, weaver, and fiddle-player on Gabriola Island, BC (Snuneymuxw territory). In this ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talk, Megan speaks on the importance of artistic practice in our lives and how Zen practice can encourage and support us in liberating our creative selves. Find Megan's writing at www.comfortfortheapocalypse.com, and her creative work at instagram.

Guiding Teacher Shinmon Michael Newton introduces The Taste of Silence: How I Came to Be at Home with Myself, by Belgian author Bieke Vandekerckhove who, at the age of 19, was diagnosed with ALS (a degenerative neurological disease). Michael speaks of how we can find freedom in stillness and what Dogen refers to as 'the backward step' — the deep and healing flow of silence. These

The Beat Poets: Part 5 of a six-week Wednesday dharma seminar series with MRZC Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless. These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate. A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and acce

In this special Earth Day talk, Guiding Teacher Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the continuous flux between our bodies and the planet with a meditation on the four elements—and questions whether humus and humankind are really so different. These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider support