Appamada

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  2026-09-15 I Inquiry I Returning to the Mountains Returning to Yourself I Flint Sparks 17.09.2026 1h 3min

  2026-09-15 I Inquiry I Returning to the Mountains Returning to Yourself I Flint Sparks by Appamada
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  2026-09-13 | Dharma Talk | Zen, Religion | Nate Smalley 13.09.2026 34min

  This Sunday, Nate gives an Open Talk. Rather than preparing remarks in advance, he comes with a single starting point, and the rest formed with those in the room.
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  2026-09-08 I Inquiry I Guard the Sense Doors I Peg Syverson 12.09.2026 1h 1min

  2026-09-08 I Inquiry I Guard the Sense Doors I Peg Syverson by Appamada
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  2026-09-06 | Willingness | Nate Smalley 06.09.2026 31min

  This week Nate looks at willingness as a practice. It's the turn toward your life as it actually is, made before you feel ready.
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  2026-09-01 I Inquiry I A Gratitude Meditation I Joel Barna 03.09.2026 57min

  2026-09-01 I Inquiry I A Gratitude Meditation I Joel Barna by Appamada
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  2026-08-30 | Way-Seeking Mind Talk | Manuel Quinto-Pozos 31.08.2026 42min

  In a Way-Seeking Mind talk, a sangha member shares their personal narrative, key turning points, and how the Dharma has moved in their life. Manuel reflects on the experiences that brought him to Zen practice and how it continues to shape his path.
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  2026-08-23 | Guo Gu Guided Meditation | Joel Barna 28.08.2026 9min

  2026-08-23 | Guo Gu Guided Meditation | Joel Barna by Appamada
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  2026-08-25 I Inquiry I When your room becomes the whole world I Trudy Johnston 27.08.2026 58min

  2026-08-25 I Inquiry I When your room becomes the whole world I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
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  2026-08-23 | Body Scan is Full Presence | Joel Barna 25.08.2026 30min

  2026-08-23 | Body Scan is Full Presence | Joel Barna by Appamada
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  2026-08-18 I Inquiry I Longing I Flint Sparks 20.08.2026 48min

  2026-08-18 I Inquiry I Longing I Flint Sparks by Appamada
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  2026-08-16 | Dharma Talk | Attention | Nate Smalley 16.08.2026 32min

  There's a word at the center of our practice that reads as mundane but might better understood as sacred: attention. At first attention is not very promising, is it? To the classroom teacher and parent in Nate, it sounds ludicrously ordinary. Paying attention seems so basic, so pedestrian. But Nate has come to think it may be the heart of practice, hiding in plain sight. For the final talk of our Zen and the Moment series, we treat this small, forgettable word seriously— with Dōgen, a poem by Ellen Bass, and practice together. Cover art: Sengai Gibon (1750–1837), ○△▢ (Circle, Triangle, Square), or Marusankakushikaku or The Universe; ink on paper. Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo. By Sengai - catalogue, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26868326
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  2026-08-11 I Inquiry I Just be ordinary and nothing special I Trudy Johnston 14.08.2026 1h

  2026-08-11 I Inquiry I Just be ordinary and nothing special I Trudy Johnston by Appamada
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  2026-08-09 | Dharma Talk | Nate Smalley 13.08.2026 36min

  2026-08-09 | Dharma Talk | Nate Smalley by Appamada
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  2026-08-10 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen 12.08.2026 1h 3min

  2026-08-10 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada
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  2026-08-04 I Inquiry Accepting Yourself Completely I Josh Gifford 08.08.2026 1h 2min

  2026-08-04 I Inquiry Accepting Yourself Completely I Josh Gifford by Appamada
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  2026-08-03 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen 05.08.2026 55min

  2026-08-03 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada
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  2026-08-02 | Dharma Talk | Time and the Moment | Nate Smalley 03.08.2026 28min

  This week, we’ continue to explore Zen’s understanding of time and the moment. Conventionally, we think of the past as a place things go to stay put — old mistakes, former selves, the people we've lost, with all of it shrinking into the distance. Dōgen, characteristically, disagrees. This Sunday, we sit with his strange claim that time does not pile up in a row, which has implications for what we carry and what we release. Illustration: Hasegawa Tōhaku, Pine Trees (c. 1595) Tokyo National Museum
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  2026-07-28 I Slippery words I Inquiry Joel Barna 31.07.2026 56min

  2026-07-28 I Slippery words I Inquiry Joel Barna by Appamada
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  2026-07-27 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen 29.07.2026 58min

  2026-07-27 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada
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  2026-07-26 | Dharma Talk | What is a Moment? | Nate Smalley 27.07.2026 31min

  2026-07-26 | Dharma Talk | What is a Moment? | Nate Smalley by Appamada