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Audio: A Guided Meditation on Feeling Fully & Being Free
By Brooke Teisui McNamara Sensei, July 7th, 2024.
Audio: Crushes and Crushed – Feeling Fully & Being Free
A dharma talk & guided meditation, by Brooke Teisui McNamara Sensei, at Community Practice on July 7th, 2024.
Video: Love Itself
An excerpt from a dharma talk by Brooke Teisui McNamara Sensei about the arising of natural compassion, from a Zen Buddhist perspective. Given in Torrey, UT, August 2023
Video: Emptiness
In Zen practice, emptiness refers to the ultimate nature of reality which means it is empty of an inherent, separate existence or self. Experiencing and perceiving Emptiness is crucial for skillfully navigating the alive, dynamic, ever changing aspects of this one, precious life…and death. A dharma talk given by Lisa Genki Gibson Sensei for the…
Video: Receiving the Way: Finding Refuge in The Three Treasures
An online workshop taught by Rob Daishin McNamara Sensei & Brian Butsudo Turner Sensei, May 2024.
Audio: Working with Obstacles to Aliveness
A dharma talk given by Brooke Teisui McNamara Sensei during The Art of Aliveness Retreat in Boulder, CO, January 2024.
Avalokitesvara
This poem is listening. In that sense it is open. Each word is the surface veil of a tunnel of listening with no end or origin. It receives the things we think we hide: the shine of awkward posture when performing power, the fervid care – too vulnerable to share – hiding under small talk.…
Tasting It
Air smells like cow fields so we know the snow is coming. After dinner it’s started so we all go out. My youngest has his tongue reaching, trying to talk and catch flakes and sounding cartoonish. We all follow suit and open up wide. We’re only awake in this very instant, so we make sure…
Food and Water
Sit yourself kindly down and begin to breathe with and as the ache of being, instead of above it. Remember your first questions. Enduring and unanswerable, they can make you curiosity again. Gently, allow your heart to hand you every last piece of who you truly are. This is the food you’ve been hungry for.…
Audio: The Heart of Practice in the Face of Death
A dharma talk given by Rob Daishin McNamara Sensei at Community Practice in Boulder, CO, December 2023.
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