2026-08-18 I Inquiry I Longing I Flint Sparks
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2026-08-16 | Dharma Talk | Attention | Nate Smalley
There's a word at the center of our practice that reads as mundane but might better understood as sacred: attention. At first attention is not very promising, is it? To the classroom teacher and parent in Nate, it sounds ludicrously ordinary. Paying attention seems so basic, so pedestrian. But Nate has come to think it may be the heart of practice, hiding in plain sight. For the final talk of our…
2026-08-11 I Inquiry I Just be ordinary and nothing special I Trudy Johnston
2026-08-11 I Inquiry I Just be ordinary and nothing special I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
2026-08-09 | Dharma Talk | Nate Smalley
2026-08-09 | Dharma Talk | Nate Smalley by Appamada
2026-08-10 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen
2026-08-10 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada
2026-08-04 I Inquiry Accepting Yourself Completely I Josh Gifford
2026-08-04 I Inquiry Accepting Yourself Completely I Josh Gifford by Appamada
2026-08-03 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen
2026-08-03 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada
2026-08-02 | Dharma Talk | Time and the Moment | Nate Smalley
This week, we’ continue to explore Zen’s understanding of time and the moment. Conventionally, we think of the past as a place things go to stay put — old mistakes, former selves, the people we've lost, with all of it shrinking into the distance. Dōgen, characteristically, disagrees. This Sunday, we sit with his strange claim that time does not pile up in a row, which has implications for what we…
2026-07-28 I Slippery words I Inquiry Joel Barna
2026-07-28 I Slippery words I Inquiry Joel Barna by Appamada
2026-07-27 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen
2026-07-27 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada