Monday, December 16, 2013

Practice Invites us Home - Tuesday December 3, 2013


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Thursday, December 12, 2013

The Buddha's Awakening - Sunday December 1, 2013


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Sunday, December 8, 2013

On Transformation - Tuesday November 26, 2013


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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Awakening - Tuesday November 19, 2013


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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Distraction and Difficulty - Tuesday November 12, 2013


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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Good Practice, Bad Practice - Monday November 11, 2013


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Friday, November 22, 2013

Noble Truths - Sunday November 10, 2013


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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Way-Finding Talk: Rev. Soshin McMurchy - Sunday November 3, 2013


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Monday, November 18, 2013

Confronting the Uncomfortable - Tuesday November 5, 2013


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Friday, November 15, 2013

Introduction to the Four Noble Truths - Monday November 4, 2013


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Monday, November 11, 2013

The Great Matter - Sunday October 27, 2013


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15 - On Power - Tuesday October 1, 2013

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ebb and Flow in Zen Practice - Sunday October 20, 2013


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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

An International Day of Regret

I wrote this several years ago, and I post it every year. Remembrance Day is a tough one for me. Originally this was a post on the TC "Spiritually Speaking" blog, but apparently they changed hosts for the blog, and dumped all of the old content.

An International Day of Regret

“Hatred is never overcome by hatred. Hatred is only overcome by love. This is Dhamma.” Dhammapada v.5

For me, Remembrance Day has been the one day of the year that I struggle most with. Not so much that we should mark it, and remember the tragic losses that have taken place though war, but rather, how we go about doing that. How we think about it. How we speak about it. How we hold it in our minds and our hearts.

I recall growing up in Ontario, and participating in Remembrance Day ceremonies in the school gym. I remember red poppies, O Canada, and singing “Blowing in the Wind”. I remember “In Flanders Fields” and the men and women dressed in faded uniforms, who seemed to be set off balance by age and the gleaming hardware displayed on their chests. I remember the speeches about “heroism” and “the cost of freedom”. I remember the crackling recording of “Taps-The Last Post”, and the two minutes of silence. I remember tears. Seeing grown men overwhelmed by their grief, and being totally baffled by it.

“These people are heroes!” I thought, “What could they possibly have to be sad about!” I was impressed by the medals, and inspired by the pomp and ceremony. I remember even being a little disappointed that I was too young to join the army and go “fight for freedom”.

When I was about twelve or thirteen, I met my step-mother’s father, Mr. Arthur Green. Art was a signaler in the First World War, and was in his nineties when I met him. We used to vacation in a cottage that he had built near Wasaga Beach, and I had a few interesting experiences during my summer holidays thanks to him. I remember there being some relics from the “the great war” at the cottage… a pair of field glasses from a German Soldier… and his pocket knife, which had a large single shank on the back side of it, which, when I asked, was told it was the “pig-sticker”.

He once told me a story that I never forgot about one Christmas eve in France. It seems that while the line of Canadians in their trench faced the line of Germans in theirs, suddenly the firing ceased. The Germans began singing “Stille Nacht”, and the Canadians joined in with “Silent Night”. The next day, being Christmas, the soldiers came out of their trenches and cleared the barbed wire in no-man’s-land. That day, the two sides played game after game of soccer, shared food, drink, photos, and song. Most of them were 18-25 years old, and but for a uniform, might have been lifelong friends. The next day, at first light, the barbed wire having been replaced, the fighting began again. I still struggle with this story.

I also remember hearing Art awaken from a nightmare, and being frightened because I had never heard anyone curse like that…

A few years ago Zenwest and UVic Interfaith Services hosted several events with Vietnam veteran, Zen Teacher, and author of the book “At Hell’s Gate” Claude Anshin Thomas. Anshin spoke with a clarity and brutal frankness about the impact of war on the men and women that take part in it. He shared in explicit detail the horrors that he not only witnessed, but also willingly participated in as a helicopter machine-gunner during the Vietnam War.

He also shared that like many, if not most war vets, he tried to cope with the trauma he experienced in life after the war through the use of drugs and alcohol, and they didn’t help. How the “social systems” that are in place to help these veterans, in many cases just amount to increased doses of different (socially sanctioned) drugs. He shared how even after years of therapy and spiritual practice, he still isn’t able to sleep for more than two hours at a stretch without waking.

I believe that war itself is failure. As soon as the first shot is fired, as a species, we have failed. Like children that can’t get their way we have forgotten to use our words, and have started fighting.

There is no winner in war. Even the soldiers that survive on the “winning” side are damaged or shattered. There has been no lasting peace that has come as the result of war. Ever.

To win in war is only to sow the seeds of resentment and hatred, which will come to fruition when time and opportunity present themselves. At best we might delay the backlash for a generation or two, and so ensure that our own children or grandchildren reap the fruit of violence.

As a “religious figure” I have been asked to speak at several Remembrance Day ceremonies, but I don’t think I have ever been asked back, because I absolutely will not tow the party line that we must “fight for freedom” or “fight for peace”.

Most often, all I can come up with is an apology.

I am sorry to the many veterans who have had to see and do what they have.

I am sorry to those that have fallen on all sides of war, and to their families.

I am sorry that as a society we have fooled ourselves into thinking that peace can be found through violence.

I am sorry that “peace” and “freedom” have come to mean “our way”.

I am sorry that after millennia of seeking peace, freedom, and harmony through violence and the use of force, that we don’t have the wisdom to say “this isn’t working”.

I am sorry that we are at ease with systematically spending seemingly infinite amounts of money on war and the components of war, and only the tiniest fraction of that on aid, medicine and development.

I am sorry.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bodhidharma Day - Sangha Sunday October 6, 2013


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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Facing the Mirror of Zen - Tuesday October 8, 2013


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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Responsibility and Consequence - Tuesday September 17, 2013


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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Why Do We Come to Practice - Tuesday September 10, 2013


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Friday, October 11, 2013

Gratitude for Sangha - Tuesday September 3, 2013


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Monday, October 7, 2013

Endless Practice, Awakening to Our Life - Tuesday August 23, 2013


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Friday, October 4, 2013

Power (Ven. Daitetsu Hull) - Tuesday October 1, 2013


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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Osho Ceremony Eshu's Talk - Saturday September 28, 2013


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Uncomfortable Zen - Tuesday August 6, 2013


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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Zazen, Seated Meditation in the Context of Zen Practice - Tuesday July 30, 2013


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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Royal Birth - Tuesday July 23, 2013


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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Preparing to Depart the Bubble of Training Period - Sunday July 14, 2013


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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Seichu: Rinzai Zen Training Period - Monday July 8, 2013


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Friday, September 13, 2013

Understanding Form in the Context of Residential Training - Tuesday July 2, 2013


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Monday, September 9, 2013

Just Grow Up - Tuesday June 25, 2013


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Friday, July 12, 2013

Zen - The Next Generation - Tuesday June 18, 2013


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Monday, July 8, 2013

Penetrating The Illusion of Separation - Tuesday June 4, 2013


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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Zenwest Buddhist Society; Transition to Zen Training - Sunday June 2, 2013


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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Reflections on Death - Tuesday May 28, 2013


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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Nothing Added, Nothing Lost - Monday May 13, 2013


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Saturday, June 22, 2013

For the Benefit of All Beings - Sunday May 5, 2013


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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Committing to Living Your Life; Now! - Tuesday April 30, 2013


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Friday, June 14, 2013

Approaching Meditation as Training - Tuesday April 23, 2013


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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Facing Difficult Times, Together - Tuesday April 16, 2013


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Friday, May 10, 2013

Investigating Self and No-Self - Tuesday April 9, 2013


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Monday, May 6, 2013

Practice Beyond Concepts - Sangha Sunday Zendo April 7, 2013


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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Going Beyond Limitation - Tuesday April 2, 2013


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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Making Mistakes - Tuesday March 12, 2013


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Uncompromising Awakening - Tuesday March 19, 2013


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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Reclaiming Each Moment of Your Life - Monday March 11, 2013


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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Maturity - Tuesday March 5, 2013


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Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Function of Form in Zen - Monday March 4, 2013


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Monday, March 18, 2013

Sangha Sunday Zendo - Sunday March 3, 2013


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Friday, March 15, 2013

Committing to Who We Truly Are - Tuesday February 26, 2013


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The Trouble with Family - Sunday November 25, 2012


I gave this talk on November 25, 2012, about a week after I published my original article on Joshu Sasaki and Rinzai Ji. It is probably the most difficult talk I have ever given. People have asked questions about where I am on all of this. This is where I was in November. Pretty shattered. I'm feeling much better now.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

What is Going Right Now? - Monday February 25, 2013


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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday February 5, 2013


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday January 29, 2013


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Friday, February 8, 2013

Thus Coming, Thus Going - Tuesday January 29, 2013


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Friday, February 1, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday January 22, 2013


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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Just a Ghost - Tuesday January 22, 2013


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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday January 15, 2013


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Friday, January 18, 2013

A Stable Foundation - Tuesday January 15, 2013


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Monday, January 14, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday January 8, 2013


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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Intentions for a New Year of Practice - Tuesday January 8, 2013


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Friday, January 4, 2013

Question and Response Period - Tuesday December 18, 2012


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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

December Holiday Intensive - Tuesday December 18, 2012


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