Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast
Presented by the Mountain Rain Zen Community based in Vancouver, BC. Featuring talks by our guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, and other guest speakers. To learn more about our community, explore our extensive teaching archive, and offer your support, visit http://mountainrainzen.org.
Episodes
Loss is unavoidable in our lives. Shinmon Michael Newton asks: How do we stay with the pain of loss? How can we allow the present moment to simply be?
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of reco...
Myoshin Kate McCandless, reflects on how making space for restoration and recuperation can be the antidote for a dull or agitated mind, thus leading to open awareness.
“Rest so that you can give full expression to your life.”
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teaching...
Myoshin Kate McCandless offers guidance for understanding the bodhisattva vows in a deeply personal way, helping us to live a dynamic everyday life.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
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Kyōkō Chie Angela Kayira shares writing from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (ordained Zen priest), that explore the connection between shamanism and Buddhist practice.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full a...
Joko Claire Talbot asks: when are you most aware of craving in your life? What practices do you find helpful when that happens?
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Mysohin Kate McCandless reflects on sesshin by weaving the writing of Dogen, Susan Murphy, and Peter Godfrey-Smith.
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Offering the last talk of sesshin, Mysohin Kate McCandless invites wonder and awe towards the mystery of consciousness.
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When thoughts and feelings are less crowded, there can be relief and a sense of safety. However, Shinmon Michael Newton asks: how do we avoid the subtle and dangerous trap of identifying with or clinging to spaciousness??
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Myoshin Kate McCandless explores how the emptiness of sky is filled with the energy of air.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and access...
The senses and our experiences are aflame. Shinmon Michael Newton asks that we pay attention to the small changes in temperature felt both inside and outside of our bodies.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
Our inter-being with water is intricate and variable. Myoshin Kate McCandless invites us into the expanded enchantment of our water bodies.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
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It is not possible to do the job perfectly, so is it possible to let the job do you? Shinmon Michael Newton offers an exploration of the earth element - where in your body do you feel solidity, and where is there something else?
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Liz Toohey-Wiese shares insight into how it’s possible that the medicine and the sickness mutually heal.
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A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten...
Myosen River asks: What does it mean to be a grownup?
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and accessible on our website.
For questi...
Dai-i Flo Rublee explores the writing of Charlotte Joko Beck and asks: what were you expected to be when you were growing up? What do you require of yourself as an adult?
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a talk on the Buddha as wounded healer. How might we be with an unexpected visitor?
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded teachings going back over...
Telling the story of a very old ginko tree and an old couple, Mysohin Kate McCandless wonders in what ways we bond with place. Can we adopt an expansive view of what it means to belong to the one Earth we all depend upon?
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider suppo...
Shinmon Michael Newton suggests Summer’s growth is a good time for connecting to the heart of trees, and to know the dharma of plants.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded...
Offering the last talk in the series, Myoshin Kate McCandless explores the significance of Jizo the bodhisattva of great vow.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded teachings going back...
If Maitreya Buddha is the buddha of the future, Shinmon Michael Newton suggests we may all be that.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate.
A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free an...
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