Letting Go of Fear-Based Strategies

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Letting Go of Fear-Based Strategies

FromRochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

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Sep 19, 2021

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To one degree or another, we allow habitual reactions to pain and anxiety to limit our lives. Zen practice shows us another way.
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Sep 19, 2021

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Dharma talks by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede and others. Roshi Kjolhede is abbot of the Rochester Zen Center and dharma heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau.

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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field: “With total trust, roam and play in samadhi”. Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991 by Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)
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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field: The life of Master Hongzhi Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991 by Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)
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