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ABOUT ME
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I have been a student of Zen Buddhism, with a deep appreciation for Asian calligraphy, for some time now, and both of these disciplines have changed the way I approach my artwork. In an effort to get at the essence of Zen, I turned to the teachings of the founder of the Soto Zen school, Eihei Dogen Zenji, and discovered a wealth of poetic and philosophical ideas, insights, and a mandate to look no further than wherever I happen to be right now. She has been active in the renovation and development of res...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 12/9/12 - 12/16/12
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012. No Regrets, Part 3. Living with No Regrets, Final Part of the Series. I have no regrets and the world has no regrets. This is the third in an ongoing series. That are driving us and the world to regret. That are driving us and the world to regret. We do this first step, the learning step, through study, contemplation, and meditation. Those three combine to send signals back to the parasympathetic nervous system to tell it to adjust and change. What do we study? We study sutras...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 11/4/12 - 11/11/12
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012. A Brief Philosophic Introduction. Regard all dharma as dreams…. The Two Truths is one of the most fundamental teachings in Buddhism today, and yet it is barely even mentioned in the early scriptures (the Pali Canon or the Agamas). It wasn’t until Nagarjuna’s writing in the 4. We create and the less suffering there is in our life. So you can ask yourself, "What are we sub-dividing? And the answer is “a knowable object.” Here, a knowable is simply something that i...So if a perso...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 7/14/13 - 7/21/13
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013. See Everything As A Dream, Part 1. See everything as a dream. Realizing this, we work to see everything as a dream. Everything is always passing away. As soon as something appears, in that same moment, it disappears. Things certainly do appear to be here, but as we look more closely, it is less certain. The me. We think of ourselves as a permanent entity with changing characteristics–really; really. The closer you look, the harder it seems to get to actually see what is happening.
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 12/2/12 - 12/9/12
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Sunday, December 2, 2012. No Regrets. Part 2. I have no regrets and the world has no regrets. This is the second in a series on living without regret. Our goal is to learn how not. Understanding that this is what happens, and then learning how to stop it has been the work of Buddhist monks almost 3000 years. The most prominent monks who wrote and codified the workings of the mind so that we could understand it and retrain it for the benefit of all beings were Asanga. Brothers in the fourth century. NORTH...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: The Two Truths
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Sunday, April 14, 2013. The Two Truth is on the short list of most important Buddhist concepts. This is material to chew on for a lifetime of practice, not something we get on a first or even second or third read through. Excerpted from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Knowledge of the ultimate truth informs us of how things really are ultimately, and so takes our minds beyond the bounds of conceptual and linguistic conventions. Nāgārjuna's central argument to support his radical non-foundational...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 4/14/13 - 4/21/13
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Sunday, April 14, 2013. The Two Truth is on the short list of most important Buddhist concepts. This is material to chew on for a lifetime of practice, not something we get on a first or even second or third read through. Excerpted from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Knowledge of the ultimate truth informs us of how things really are ultimately, and so takes our minds beyond the bounds of conceptual and linguistic conventions. Nāgārjuna's central argument to support his radical non-foundational...
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North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center: 6/16/13 - 6/23/13
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Saturday, June 22, 2013. Learning Buddhism Through Slogans. Slogan are a great learning and teaching devise, especially in Tibetan Buddhism. The Lojong, Atisha's 12th century teaching, is a systematically ordered series of 59 aphorisms, or slogans, arranged under seven headings to show us how to transform our day-to-day difficulties into open, compassion, other-centered, peaceful and clear hearts and minds. This blog is an exploration of the first slogan, “ Train in the preliminaries. Of these slogans by...
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LINKS - North Shore Dharma & Meditation Center
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North Shore Dharma and Meditation Center. LINKS TO RECOMMENDED WEBSITES AND E-BOOKS. The Mid-America Buddhist Association (MABA). MABA is a Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monastery located about 45 minutes west of St. Louis. It is the Center’s parent monastery. It has classes, weekly services, special events, retreats, and more. It's Abbot, Master Ji Ru, is one of the leading Buddhism monks in the world. Visit Rightview’s designer, Carol Corey’s website visualzen.net. This is the official site of the Zen Budd...
