Cosmopolitan Zen

Expanding Consciousness - Hosho Don Koehler

It's the sitting practice that becomes more and more important. The psychedelic experiences become less and less significant because you're already experiencing that expanded consciousness and altered states from the practice itself.

https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblms-blog/hoshodonkoehler

The Conditioned You: Jealousy - Emyo Darlene Tataryn - The Heart of Zen FPP24 - Dharma Talk - October 28. 2024

Emyo Darlene Tataryn offers and in depth look at jealousy and how it provides a challenge for deepening our work as Zen practitioners. She hosts here own sangha One Wisdom Zen in Selkirk, Manitoba. https://www.onewisdom.ca/

 

The Conditioned You Anger - Daiden Dan Pecaut - Dharma Talk - November 4th, 2024

Daiden Dan Pecaut is a senior student of Jun Po Roshi. His sangha Siouxland Zen in Sioux City, IA is a thriving community of zen practitioners. He has published two books about his Zen experience and continues to teach the dharma to all who come.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Siouxlandzen/

Why Are You Here - Engo Michael Jackson - Dharma Talk - October 14, 2024

Engo Dohi MIchael Jackson opens our Fall Practice Period with a discussion of non-duality.  Engo was ordained by Jun Po Roshi and serves as a senior training faculty for programs at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society and Dragon Heart Dharma. 

This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk as part of The Heart of Zen - The Fall Practice Period 2024 at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society.

Who Are You? - Kogen Keith Martin-Smith - The Heart of Zen FPP24 - Dharma Talk October 21, 2024

Kogen Keith Martin-Smith offers his personal reflections about Jun Po Roshi's Koan Who Are You?  Author of The Heart of Zen.  Kogen share intimately some of his experience with Jun Po Roshi. 

This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk as part of The Heart of Zen - The Fall Practice Period 2024 at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society.

Emotional Koans 2.0 - Ekai Joel Kreisbeg

Ekai Joel Kreisberg discusses the next step development of Jun Po Roshi's emotional koans.  Bringing in the wisdom of Karlan McLaren's Language of Emotions, Ekai unpacks the eleventh and twelfth koan of Mondo Zen Facilitation, showing how Jun Po Roshi pointed to this work and how much more is possible as we explore new emotional koans. This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk at Shining Bright Lotus Sacred Ceremony, October 19th, 2024

Part Of Getting The Robe Is To Say I'm Part Of Spreading The Dharma - Nanda Nina Lynch

If you look at it historically, it’s not proselytizing. It’s saying the Dharma has to spread. Nature has to move the seeds, either through the wind or through a bird, picking it up and dropping it somewhere else. The Dharma spreads. So part of getting the robe or the rakasu is to say I'm part of the spreading. So I bring it somewhere else.

- Nanda Nina Lynch

https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblms-blog/nanda

Zazen and Emotional Koans 2024 - Meditation Two

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom and transformation. This is a basic meditation instruction for practice led by Ekai Joel Kreisberg.  This is the second meditation from the Zazen and Emotional Koan retreat recently completed in October, 2024

https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/events/zazenkaiemotionalkoans24

Zazen and Emotional Koans 2024 - Meditation One

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom and transformation. This is a basic meditation instruction for practice led by Ekai Joel Kreisberg

https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/events/zazenkaiemotionalkoans24

There's a Buddha Inside of You - Kenshin Cian Whalley

I found out how magic works, manifestation works and how changing the mind and the field around us works. And then looking back at tantric Buddhist tradition, I recognized that the initiatory practices are the path. If you break down all of the facets of the prostration, it really is a magical practice meant to transform your mind into the mind of a Buddha

https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblms-blog/kenshin