Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. <a href="https://ordinaryzensangha.org/donations/">Donations Link... <br></a><br>Thank you for listening,<br>Will Rauschenberger, Abbot</p>
What can we rely on in times like these?
The transcendence of ever changing circumstances.
Today’s talk is about an exchange between Zen Master Seung Sahn and a student, from the book “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha”. 🙏
Don’t believe anything you think…
“Thinking is just thinking, it is not who I am”.
Inquiry into “What is this?”
Exploring Nature is exploring our nature.
Benevolence is fearlessness.
Will gives an intro to Koans (Kongans) in this Dharma Talk.
What are we letting go? Are we falling into the same hole over and over?
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.