Listen to dharma talks from the teachers and guest teachers of the New York Zen Center for Contempla
If you do, you can. If you don’t, you can’t. When you say you can’t do what can be done, It means yo
“Prajnatara asked, ‘What amongst all things is the greatest?’ Bodhidharma said, ‘True nature, of all
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“To devote ourselves to everything we encounter and throw our life force into doing just that is qui
“How are you cultivating that space of no separation in each moment?” Koshin Paley Ellison deliver
What are the ingredients that go into your decisions today? Sensei Chodo delivers a vulnerable dha
“Big mind, then, is not a matter of meditation on some vast floating spatial dimension. It is the pr
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“How can you embody being settled into the Way?” In this dharma talk, Koshin Paley Ellison cites o
“It is not valid to equate a fact, as real as it may seem to be, with the truth. It is just self dec
“What I would encourage you to do is to reflect on: how you how you’ve deceived yourself this past y
“If you just surrender your life to the dharma, then you no longer have to worry what the future wil
“I’ve been practicing for twenty years and it’s so wonderful that I’m still not sure what practice i
“Maintaining the sangha and showing up to serve the Buddhadharma is something beyond us, beyond ‘me’
“When we give to others, we give without expectation or reward. We give without attachment to the gi
“Can you find the steadiness of your practice even when you don’t want to? Can you show up even when
“Many of us use spiritual practice as a transaction. We say to ourselves, ‘if I log in enough hours,
“If I can practice having tenderness and compassion for my own experience, it’s like having a couple
“Zazen has nothing whatsoever to do with whether you’re sitting upright or lying down.” Examining
“How do you experience the sound of raindrops as they land on the surface of the water? The breeze a