Sesshin Talk by Shinei Brown - ON SITE (in Zendo)

Sesshin talk will be given by Shinei (神英) Brown, following one period of zazen.

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Zazen

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Dharma Talk

Entry into the Realm of Reality

Look to your childhood, for inviolate places, where we are born whole. . .  not hapless nor helpless in the face of our own awkwardness, and the vagaries of the world. Sudhana, a young aspirant encouraged by Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom, sets out on pilgrimage to encounter fifty-three spiritual friends, guides on the Bodhisattva Path. “Noble one, it was Manjushri who inspired me to seek supreme perfect enlightenment and directed me to attend spiritual benefactors. Please tell me how a spiritual seeker can find great peace and true presence while carrying out the practice of the bodhisattva.” Sudhana’s journey is reflected in the thirty-ninth book of the Avatamsaka Sutra. It's an overflowing spaciousness with jewel-like imagery, poetry, and…