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The Teachings of Grass https://youtu.be/cumEQcRMY3c

https://consciouslivingradio.org/ Join Tasha Simms and Marc Caron as she speaks with author and spiritual teacher, Ji Hyang Padma as we discuss her new book, Fi...eld of Blessings. Ji Hyang served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as a Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College for fourteen years. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute. Ji Hyang Padma has done intensive Zen training and teaching in Asia and North America for 20 years. She has completed several 90-day intensive retreats in Korea and North America. Ji Hyang has also served as Director and Abbot of Cambridge Zen Center, one of the largest Zen Centers in the country. Ji Hyang holds a doctorate in psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness & healing, through the lens of traditional Buddhist healing practices. She currently serves as Director of the Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program at the California Institute for Human Science. In her private practice, Ji Hyang integrates Eastern and Western psychology with indigenous and core shamanic healing and energy psychology to support the client’s healing into the fullness of joy and wisdom. Field of Blessings Field of Blessings is a turning point, a revitalization of the healing arts in Western culture. Reclaim the power of ritual healing and reconnect with the roots of mind-body medicine. Ji Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology and its quick fix of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don’t need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength. Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by a deep examination of the stories of our lives, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken, written, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chod, Medicine Buddha practices, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies, radical empathy, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche. https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com//our-bo/field-blessings

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Planting seeds at this Lunar New Year-- Happy Losar! https://youtu.be/5AmqYcWjBmc

Floating with power! Riding in style! Wishing everyone well at the start of this Year of the Female Iron Ox, 2148 on the Tibetan calendar. (Artist : Wang Yiquang)

NEW MOON REPORT: LOSAR NEW MOON Losar New Moon arrives Thursday, February 11th, 11:05 AM PST/ 2:05 PM EST. This New Moon is conjunct Mercury Retrograde, and part of a Stellium including Jupiter and Saturn. Within this, Uranus square Saturn is the keynote. Thank the stars, that energy vortex of Pluto-Saturn-Jupiter, that catalyzed that slow-moving crisis known as 2020 is in a separating aspect. That is to say, its effects are waning. Jupiter and Saturn are still close togethe...Continue reading

In Buddhist scripture there is a famous passage that explains that water is not only water. For human beings water is water, but for celestial beings it is a jewel. For fish it is their home, and for people in hell or hungry ghosts it is blood, or maybe fire. The same water looks very different to various beings. Many people think "water is water" is the right understanding, and that it should not be a home or a jewel, blood or fire. Water should be water. But Dogen Zenji say...s: "Even though you say 'water is water' it is not quite right". This is a good koan to study... When we say "water is water" we understand things materially. We say that water is H2O, but under some conditions H2O may be ice or mist. For convenience, we may tenatively say that water is water, but we should appreciate water in its true sense. Water is more than just water. When I am drinking water, water is everything. The whole world is water. Nothing exists besides water. When we drink water with this understanding and attitude, that is water and at the same time it is more than water.... Dogen Zenji says to be like a boatman. Although he is carried by the boat, he is also handling the boat. That is how we live in the world. ...Wherever you are, you are one with the sun and the stars that you see. Even if you jump out of an airplane, you don't go anywhere else. You are still one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. --Suzuki Roshi, Not Always So. This week we focus on elemental Zen. Join us FRIDAY, February 5 at 7 pm for sitting and Dharma talk. We will hope to see you there-- Metta, Ji Hyang

Good News-- many upcoming opportunities to visit together, via my book launch-- all will be listed here: https://www.mountainpath.org/books