Myoshin Kate McCandless offers that as we cultivate moment-to-moment awareness, joy can become a practice of survival, solidarity and connection.

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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers the teaching that letting go of self-clinging leads to clear-seeing and non-reactivity, which in turn enables giving generously from our one true heart.

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For the last talk of sesshin Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: how do we want our lives to flow outwards and onwards, beyond this body and this lifetime?

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Shinmon Michael Newton asks: what conceptual things are you holding on to so tightly? Can you call forth the old tea-woman within you?

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Shuso Myosen River Shannon suggests that affording those around us dignity is bodhisattva action.

“Beings are me. I will take them in hand. […] Mind goes elsewhere, I steadily walk it home […] I willingly enter each threshold. […] The way of wholeness is true, May I belong to it completely.” - Caroline Meister

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Myoshin Kate McCandless explores anger as response to threat, asking how we might bring subtlety to the discussion. Can anger, fully experienced, lead to envisioning possibility?

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Shinmon Michael Newton encourages the sangha to not turn away from the opportunity afforded by being on retreat.

“Our practice, whatever it is, is our true teacher. our life is our practice. Our life is our koan. Each one of us learns from our own life. If we listen deeply, if we are involved to the bottom of it, this is our true teacher, this is our most venerable teacher.” Maurine Myoon Stuart

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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers stories, writings and poetry describing our women ancestors' moments of kenshō (enlightenment).

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