Handing Your Will and Your Life Over to Your Buddha Nature/ to God/ to the Universe One of the reasons why we all, why man, suffers, is that we insist on acting on our own volition, which usually means acting as our mind tells us to act.  We depend on our mind to offer us advice that is good for us.The problem is that our mind—which is to say our ego-mind—virtually never gives us good advice, in the sense of being in our best interest, because it is totally controlled by our emotions, our insecurity, our perceptions. Because of that, we never see things as they [...]
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Celebrating 55 Years of the Tassajara Bread Book: An Interview with Edward Espe Brown "Working to bake bread can renew our spirit, and with this work we renew the world, our friends and neighbors."
https://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/20....25/10/17/celebrating

Gendō Lucy Xiao Receives Dharma Transmission Congratulations to Gendō Lucy Xiao who received Dharma Transmission from Senior Dharma Teacher Ryūshin Paul Haller at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
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Reality - It's Not What You Think It Is You know what reality is:  you see it, you smell it, you experience it.  It's pretty straight forward.  It is what it is.Ah, but that is not the case.  The reason is because what you experience, what you see, what you smell is filtered first by your ego-mind before it goes to your brain. Your ego-mind sorts, identifies, judges, etc. before the experience goes to the brain for reaction.  So since your ego-mind has been conditioned by your life experiences to see things a [...]
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Priest Ordination Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm – September 28 Congratulations to Cam Esaryk who received priest ordination from Abiding Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler at Green Gulch Farm this September.
https://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/20....25/10/07/priest-ordi