Winter Ango (Shuso Talk by Shinei Brown) - ONLINE (on Zoom)

Join us for Winter Ango Shuso Talk by Shuso Shinei (神英) Brown.

10:30 - 11:00am Zazen

11:00 - 11:45am Shuso Talk

Comparable to the Great Ocean: Vairocana

A great enlivening peace, vibrant and gracious, Vairocana is the open fresh impartial quality of a mind that remains fluid in difficult moments. Not favoring pain or pleasure, not building a story around old memories, it's a mind that can see and permit what is new and possible. There is a great ocean dreaming. I speak to the influx of a bodhisattva imagination—a great conversation between all beings and not just human beings. The Avatamsaka is a pure land, a realm you enter by being present, true to our original vow, our original face. Who are you: utterly. . . within and through? —Koji Shin'ei Alison Brown

About Shuso: Shinei began her zen practice in 1997, taking Jukai in 1998. She became a…