Patience Isn’t Passive; Phoebe Bridgers; Guided Tonglen meditation

 

12.01.2020

Patience Isn’t Passive Constance Kassor explains why patience isn’t a passive tolerance of harm, completely devoid of anger. Instead, patience requires a recognition of the deep interconnectedness of the world and an active engagement with it.

A Tale of Two Crises Rachel Neumann on what it was like to simultaneously navigate the pandemic and the wildfires that ravaged the West Coast.

Welcome to the Charnel Ground Chöying Khandro takes us on a tour of Chöd, where we visit the places we don’t want to go and offer ourselves up to the things that frighten us the most.

Phoebe Bridgers: Her Music as Meditation Ray Buckner on how Grammy nominee Phoebe Bridgers’ music is a spiritual friend, a path forward into the unknown.

The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Guided Tonglen Meditation with Lama Tsomo Lama Tsomo shares a guided tonglen meditation to apply your personal practice to widening social circles, and to move from fear into love.

Sleepy Mind, Monkey Mind? As part of our #MeditationHacks series, Anita Feng, teacher for the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle, helps a practitioner navigate the path between drowsiness and daydreaming.

The Lamp of Zazen The point of zazen, says Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is to live each moment in complete combustion, like a clean-burning kerosene lamp. In this talk from the Tassajara sesshin in the summer of 1969, the great Zen master explains Dogen’s teaching on practicing within imperfection and warns against the arrogance of the false self.