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Sunday Integral Dharma Calls
Mar 22, 2:00 pm - Jun 30, 3:30 pm EDT
Online
Led by: Doshin Nelson
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Join us on Zoom:
In the US, at 11am PT, noon MT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET
In Europe, at 7pm UK, 8pm CET
The calls are free, given from the spirit of generosity for the benefit of all beings.
All you need to do is register once, with your name and email, so we can add you to the Sunday Calls List.
After registering you will:
- Receive the Zoom link for each weekly call
- Receive logistical notifications regarding future calls
- Be able to access videos of past calls on our website
“May you live in interesting times,” was reported to be an ancient Chinese curse but no actual Chinese source has ever been found. Well it may not be a Chinese curse, but it does indeed seem to be a modern one. A pandemic has appeared, ironically in China, and it is sweeping across the globe. We can think of this pandemic as a curse, but it might be more interesting and useful to think of it as a powerful teacher or teaching. With our Sunday Integral Dharma Calls, we are beginning to explore this global crisis, making sense out of it using Zen wisdom, depth psychology and an Integral Framework. Each one of us are potential students. What might we learn from this crisis, this teacher and these teachings? And, what can we do to enhance our capacity for learning?
As my root teacher JunPo is fond of saying with a smile: “When do we change? When we have to."
Registration
If you are registered, you can access the course link, info, videos, and materials in the my profile section of the website.
Sessions
Past Sessions
Life and Death Cafe 01 - Oct 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Moral values are given. Virtue must be earned with disciplined, devoted practice
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 22, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Understanding and Feeling the importance of Healing as individuals develop and Awaken.
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 15, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
How to find and stay on the path to end conflict and suffering?
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 8, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Liberation from the bubble of "me"
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Treatments for addictions of self
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Rev Shikyo Jiryu (Janel)
You are fundamentally okay!
Cultivating internal trust in a rapidly changing (and afflicted) world
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
· Connecting the dots between:
· The 5 Skandhas of Zen and the 4 Cognitive Functions of Jung
· Using a developmental Integral View
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
self-knowledge and Self-Knowing
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
What is the Original Tao?
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Culture Wars and Collective Shadows
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- The Factories of Delusions
- What are the hidden costs of modern and postmodern factories?
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
· The Whole Spectrum of Shadows in Integral Zen
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
• The Karma of believing “we” are separate from Nature
Integral Dharma Call - May 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Natural Intentions and Artificial Agendas
- Little mind and Big Mind
- Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
Integral Dharma Call - May 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Guest talk: Rev Shikyo Jiryu Janel
puer aeternus, the problem of eternal youth
Integral Dharma Call - May 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Why can’t we all just get along?
Why can’t we just sit down, talk and listen to each other, and work things out?
The Noble Wisdom of the Three Marks of Existence
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The Integral Zen Sangha (What it isn’t and what it is)
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Lies, Sacred Lies and Dharmakaya
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
True Believers and Truth
Integral Dharma Call - Mar 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Shikyo Janel's Dharma talk about Healing, Living and dying.
Integral Dharma Call - Mar 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Is the meaning crisis the death of hope?
Integral Dharma Call 166 - Mar 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
What is the most important thing?
Dogen’s Life – Death,
Purifying poisonous Karma – becoming virtuous – Awakening & Stabilizing Your True Face
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Rev. Shikyo Jiryu (Janel) talks about health
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence and Buddha Consciousness
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Transcending and including the mind that creates all conflicts.
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
A Warning for All Zen Masters
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Doshin demonstrates Touching the True Face and Conflict Liberation
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Touching the True Face and Conflict Liberation
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
The Miracle called We and the Tyranny of We
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 29, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The Horrible Karma of “accentuating the positive” while suppressing and ignoring what is negative, such as: Poisons, Shadows, Blind Spots, Hell Realms, and Demons
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 22, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
There are two types of people in the world...
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Starting with a guided meditation, and then move into the Dharma Talk:
The Three Poisons, Preferences, and Prejudices.
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 20, 2:00 pm - Aug 13, 3:30 pm EDT
Exploring Balance and Imbalance through an Integral Zen framework, a guest talk by Janel Jiryu
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Aug 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Karma and Integral Interdependency
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
the foundation of Integral Zen
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Becoming conscious of how social holons, (socio-cultural systems) change
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
What is the Kosmic Address of Creativity?
Session 148 - Jul 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
A Creation Story: The Cause of War – the Karma of Me and You being indoctrinated into an Us and Them
Session 147 - Jun 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Not as good as nothing
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Jun 18, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Doshin on Retreat No Call Today
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Jun 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Doshin on Retreat No Call Today
No Integral Dharma Call - Jun 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Doshin on Retreat No Call Today
Integral Dharma Call - May 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Truths, Lies and Sacred Lies
Integral Dharma Call - May 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - May 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - May 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today:
Bringing Clarity and Compassion to the Truth and the Lies regarding Emotions
Easter - No Call Today - Apr 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Integral Dharma Call - Easter Sunday
Integral Dharma Call - Apr 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Mar 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Experiences of absolute truth and relative obscurations
On Retreat -- No Dharma Talk - Mar 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
On Retreat -- No Dharma Talk
On Retreat -- No Dharma Talk - Mar 12, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
On Retreat -- No Dharma Talk
Integral Dharma Call - Mar 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- The Original Face and the Obscurations
- Emotional (Spiritual) Growth and Awakening
Integral Dharma Call - Feb 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- The Five Skandhas and the Eight Consciousnesses
- The Original Face and the Obscurations
Integral Dharma Call - Feb 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Chakras and Holons, both Individual and Social
Integral Dharma Call - Feb 12, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Mumonkan (the Gateless Gate)
- Case 23: Think neither good nor evil
Integral Dharma Call - Feb 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Truth: Delusions and Insights
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 29, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 22, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Do you want to see the truth?
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 15, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
• Our Conflicts as a Path to Liberation
• Right View, Equanimity and Feedback
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 8, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Conflict Resolution and Conflict Liberation. The impossibility of fixing samsara. Conflict and Touching the True Face.
Integral Dharma Call - Jan 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- The drive for agency (to become a whole individual) is often in conflict with the drive for communion (to become a part of a bigger, more meaningful collective)
- The drive for self-transcendence (going beyond the self) is often in conflict with the drive for self-dissolution (getting rid of the self)
- These four drives when confused and merged together often create suffering and hinder awakening
No Integral Dharma Call Christmas Day - Dec 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 18, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
An Integral View of Karma, Trauma, Shadows and Healing which includes Restoring a perfect living balance to holons that have become dysfunctional.
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Liberation from what?
- The illusion of self
- The delusions of “me”
- The delusions of “us” and the war against “them”
Integral Dharma Call - Dec 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
We will continue our examination of Prejudice and add The Three Poisons and Holarchies. What are the differences and dynamics of the living prejudices of individual holons, and the lifeless, prejudiced frozen rules and roles of social-holons.
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Liberation from the illusion of “me” and “you”
- Liberation from the delusions “us” and “them”
There are no examples of individual holons apart from social holons, and there are no examples of social holons apart from individual holons
Integral Dharma Call - Nov 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Looking at “me” and my individual prejudices in relationship to the collective prejudices of the “us” and the “them” groups.
- There are no individual prejudices apart from collective prejudices, and there are no collective prejudices apart from individual prejudices.
They are merged together until you have done the work to identify them, see their origins and locate where they live in individual personality or collective culture or society. This requires witnessing mind (an open unbiased 3rd eye)
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- What is your True Face before your parents were born?
- What is Bodhichitta?
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The Process of Touching the True Face
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
·What do sane individuals look and act like in insane cultures?
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
· Cognitive prejudices and the fallacy of emotional intelligence.
Integral Dharma Call - Oct 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
·Witnessing the dynamics of me and you as well as us and them.
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Sep 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Sep 18, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Know thyself, get to know all of your mind. learn what each aspect of your mind is capable of doing and not doing. And then, learn to have faith in this mind, paying particular attention to the mind can truly be trusted.
Integral Dharma Call - Sep 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Before the cultivation of the wisdom contained in the poem: Faith in Mind is even possible, we each must find, explore, and begin to become conscious of all the secret aspects of the mind that are hidden from us. We must choose to take personal responsibility for assisting the aspects of mind that are unconscious to enter into conscious realization.
If our very aliveness depends on each of us finding and exploring every aspect of our mind, what would be the most expedient thing to do?
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
How the 6 sense consciousnesses emerged and evolved with a radically new presentation of the whole spectrum of emotions.
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Aug 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Aug 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Aug 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
When and how do children acquire prejudices?
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The Doctrine of Two Truths, The Wilber-Combs Lattice, and Chakras
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 24, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Moral Values, Precision of Language and Peer Pressure of Groups
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma Call - Jul 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Which mind is Prejudiced?
- Which mind is not Prejudiced?
Integral Dharma Call - Jun 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
·What is prejudice?
Integral Dharma - Jun 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
A deep, simple probe into the dynamics of Individual and Collective Holons of Mind
Integral Dharma - Jun 12, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- What is the relationship between emotions and individual Shadows?
- How does doing Individual Shadow Work protect you from Collective Shadows?
No Integral Dharma Call This Week - Jun 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 103 - May 29, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- The evolution of individuals and Tribes
- The Kosmic Addresses of Me and You -- Us and Them
Integral Dharma 102 - May 22, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: IDC 102
- Wilber Combs Lattice and Kosmic Addresses
- Attempts to Articulate Relative and Absolute Truth
Integral Dharma 101 - May 15, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Last Week we covered:
- Mandalas and the Four Quadrants
- Cosmologies and delusions
- Kosmic Addresses
But we just mentioned Kosmic Address
So Today:
- Kosmic Addresses in more detail
Integral Dharma 100 - May 8, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Mandalas and the Four Quadrants
- Cosmologies and delusions
- Kosmic Addresses
Integral Dharma 99 - May 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 99th Integral Sunday Dharma Call:
Traumas, shadows, demons & deities, and the minds disease
Integral Dharma 98 - Apr 24, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Truth, lies and sacred lies
No Call This Week - Apr 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 97 - Apr 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
· -- Integral Zen –
· Integrating Buddhist Wisdom
· And Integral Depth Psychology
Integral Dharma 96 - Apr 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
· 3 Poisons and 5 Kleshas
· Emotional Moods and Reactivity
· In The 4 Quadrants
Integral Dharma 95 - Mar 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- The 3 Poisons – The Cause of Suffering
- Prejudice – The Cause of War
Integral Dharma 94 - Mar 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
- Structures of Mind –Chakras – Emotional Reactive Energy
No Call this Week - Mar 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Call this Week - Mar 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call-93 - Feb 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Structures of Consciousness and States of mind
- Emotional reactivity and Chakra energy (Chi)
Integral Dharma 92 - Feb 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Pure intentions and one-sided agendas
- Victim, Perpetrator, Rescuer, and Witness
Integral Dharma 91 - Feb 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- “Bias for and bias against, opposing each other, this is the minds disease”
- Can you show us the bias of no bias?
- What is the mind like that has been liberated from all ego positions for and against?
Integral Dharma 90 - Feb 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
- Reason, emotions, and awakening in Western Culture
- The Two Obscurations of disturbing emotions and knowledge
Integral Dharma 89 - Jan 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path
Integral Dharma 88 - Jan 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today:
- The Six Sense Consciousnesses, the Five Skandhas, and the Eight Consciousness
- An Integral evolutionary perspective, including Jung’s 4 Types and Wilber’s 4 Quadrants
Integral Dharma 87 - Jan 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today:
- What is the opposite of hate?
- What is relative Bodhicitta?
- Can you show me Absolute Bodhicitta?
Following the Integral Dharma Talk and there will be time for Questions and room for some Individuals to explore the mystery of who we really are.
Integral Dharma 86 - Jan 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today:
- Where do conflicts arise?
- Show me a conflict arising
- Where are there no conflicts?
- Show me the absence of all conflicts?
- Who wants to experience the liberation of conflicts?
Integral Dharma 85 - Jan 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today: What is helpful?
- Dualistic feeling/thinking mind discriminates and evaluates
- Nondual Mind, pure naked awareness directly sees “what is”
What is the Process of Touching the True Face?
Integral Dharma 84 - Dec 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today: “Show me your true face?”
Three Marks of Existence: Impermanence, Suffering, “No-Self”
Integral Dharma 83 - Dec 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today: Is suffering necessary or even real?
“Who is suffering?”
Three Marks of Existence: Impermanence, Suffering, No-Self
Integral Dharma 82 - Dec 12, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today: “Everything is Burning”
Three Marks of Existence: Impermanence, Suffering, No-Self
No Recording - Dec 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma 80 - Nov 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today, from the Bhagavad Gita:
"That man who feels the inrush of emotions, but is not moved by them .. that man has obtained Peace."
- Today’s Inquiry:
- Emotional reactivity and true equanimity
- Witnessing emotions tetra-arising in all four quadrants
Integral Dharma 79 - Nov 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today, from the Bhagavad Gita: "That man who feels the inrush of emotions, but is not moved by them .. that man has obtained Peace."
Today’s Inquiry:
- Emotional reactivity and true equanimity
- Witnessing emotions tetra-arising in all four quadrants
Integral Dharma 78 - Nov 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Today: We focus on the process of “Touching the ‘me’ face.”
Today’s Koan: What is Mind?
- Show me Observing mind, observing all sense objects arising and disappearing.
- Show me Reacting and evaluating mind, processes all the sense objects arising and disappearing in the field of all 6 senses consciousnesses.
Session 77 - Nov 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Live from Aryaloka Retreat Center outside of Portsmouth NH
Show me Observing Mind. Show me Reactive Mind. Show me Witnessing mind that never arises.
- Which mind observes all sense objects arising and disappearing?
- Which mind reacts to all the sense objects arising and disappearing in the 5 senses consciousnesses?
- Which mind never arises and is always present?
Today’s Koan: “What is absent in Pure silence?
Integral Dharma 76 - Oct 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We explore both the processes of “Conflict Resolution,” and “Conflict Liberation.” We examine these two processes in the context of the experience of both dualistic mind and nondual mind.
Today’s Koan: “What is your true face, before your parents were born?
No Call this Week - Oct 24, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Call this Week - Oct 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
No Dharma Call - Oct 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 75 - Oct 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We explore the experience of “Moral Dogma,” and start the inquiry into:
Today’s Integral Inquiry: “What color (level of development) is your moral dogma”?
No Call this Week - Sep 26, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma No Call - Sep 19, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 74 - Sep 12, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We examine 6 Sense Consciousnesses, 18 Dhatus, and the 5 Skandhas
Six Sense Consciousnesses:
Seeing
Listening
Smelling
Tasting
Touching
Dualistic Feeling and Thinking
Eighteen Dhatus
The Five Skandhas (Aggregates)
1. Form or Matter
2. Sensation or Feeling
3. Perception, Conception, Appreciation, Cognition or Discrimination
4. Mental Formations, Volition or Compositional Factors
5. Consciousness
The False, perceptual Illusions of self
Samsara the apparent, perpetual delusions of ego conditioning
Today’s Koan: Who is seeing? and Who is feeling?
Integral Dharma 73 - Sep 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with the last part of the Poem: Faith in Mind
Abiding nowhere yet everywhere,
The ten directions are right before you.
The smallest is the same as the largest
In the realm where delusion is cut off.
The largest is the same as the smallest;
No boundaries are visible.
Existence is precisely emptiness;
Emptiness is precisely existence.
If it is not like this,
Then you must not preserve it.
One is everything;
Everything is one.
If you can be like this,
Why worry about not finishing?
Faith and mind are not two;
Non-duality is faith in mind.
The path of words is cut off;
There is no past, no future, no present.
Today’s Koan: What are insights and where do they arise?
Integral Dharma 72 - Aug 29, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
Develop a mind of equanimity,
And all deeds are put to rest.
Anxious doubts are completely cleared.
Right faith is made upright.
Nothing lingers behind,
Nothing can be remembered.
Bright and empty, functioning naturally,
The mind does not exert itself.
It is not a place of thinking,
Difficult for reason and emotion to fathom.
In the Dharma Realm of true suchness,
There is no other, no self.
To accord with it is vitally important;
Only refer to not-two.
In not-two all things are in unity;
Nothing is excluded.
The wise throughout the ten directions
All enter this principle.
This principle is neither hurried nor slow
One thought for ten thousand years.
Today’s Koan: Show me a right view.
Integral Dharma 71 - Aug 8, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
If the eyes do not close in sleep,
All dreams will cease of themselves.
If the mind does not discriminate,
All dharmas are of one suchness.
The essence of one suchness is profound;
Unmoving, conditioned things are forgotten.
Contemplate all dharmas as equal,
And you return to things as they are.
When the subject disappears,
There can be no measuring or comparing.
Stop activity and there is no activity;
When activity stops, there is no rest.
Since two cannot be established,
How can there be one?
In the very ultimate,
Rules and standards do not exist.
Today’s Koan:What is here when the eyes do not close in sleep?
Integral Dharma 70 - Aug 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
If you wish to enter the one vehicle,
Do not be repelled by the sense realm.
With no aversion to the sense realm,
You become one with true enlightenment.
The wise have no motives;
Fools put themselves in bondage.
One dharma is not different from another.
The deluded mind clings to whatever it desires.
Using mind to cultivate mind
Is this not a great mistake?
The erring mind begets tranquility and confusion;
In enlightenment there are no likes or dislikes.
The duality of all things
Issues from false discriminations.
A dream, an illusion, a flower in the sky
How could they be worth grasping?
Gain and loss, right and wrong
Discard them all at once.
Today:We will explore the experiences of tranquility, confusion, and equanimity from the state of luminous clarity that this poem speaks from.
Integral Dharma 69 - Jul 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
The Great Way is broad,
Neither easy nor difficult.
With narrow views and doubts,
Haste will slow you down.
Attach to it and you lose the measure;
The mind will enter a deviant path.
Let it go and be spontaneous,
Experience no going or staying.
Accord with your nature, unite with the Way,
Wander at ease, without vexation.
Bound by thoughts, you depart from the real;
And sinking into a stupor is as bad.
It is not good to weary the spirit.
The talk will explore the Koan:What is the sound of one hand?
Integral Dharma 68 - Jul 18, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
The subject is extinguished with the object.
The object sinks away with the subject.
Object is object because of the subject;
Subject is subject because of the object.
Know that the two
Are originally one emptiness.
In one emptiness the two are the same,
Containing all phenomena.
Not seeing fine or coarse,
How can there be any bias?
The talk will explore the Koan:Where does this “you” reside?
If you are here, do you exist in samsara or nirvana
Integral Dharma 67 - Jul 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today: We continue with more of the Poem: Faith in Mind
Do not abide in dualistic views;
Take care not to seek after them.
As soon as there is right and wrong
The mind is scattered and lost.
Two comes from one,
Yet do not even keep the one.
When one mind does not arise,
Myriad dharmas are without defect.
Without defect, without dharmas,
No arising, no mind.
The talk will explore the Koan: What is mind?
Integral Dharma 66 - Jul 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 66th Sunday Integral Dharma Call.
In today's talk we continue with the next part of the Poem: Faith in Mind - “Hsin Hsin Ming” Written by the Third Patriarch Seng Can, 6th Century and Translated by Chan Master Shen-yen:
Merely stagnating in duality, How can you recognize oneness
If you fail to penetrate oneness,
Both places lose their function.
Banish existence and you fall into existence;
Follow emptiness and you turn your back on it.
Excessive talking and thinking
Turn you from harmony with the Way.
Cut off talking and thinking,
And there is nowhere you cannot penetrate.
Return to the root and attain the principle;
Pursue illumination and you lose it.
One moment of reversing the light
Is greater than the previous emptiness.
The previous emptiness is transformed;
It was all a product of deluded views.
No need to seek the real;
Just extinguish your views.
Then the talk will explore trust, faith and doubt.
Integral Dharma 65 - Jun 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 65th Sunday Integral Dharma Call.
In today's talk we continue with the Poem: Faith in Mind - “Hsin Hsin Ming” Written by the Third Patriarch Seng Can, 6th Century and Translated by Chan Master Shen-yen:
Without lack, without excess.
Because of grasping and rejecting,
You cannot attain it.
Do not pursue conditioned existence;
Do not abide in acceptance of emptiness.
In oneness and equality [nonduality],
Confusion vanishes of itself.
Stop activity and return to stillness,
And that stillness will be even more active.
Merely stagnating in duality,
How can you recognize oneness?
Then the talk will focus on the Three Poisons of Buddhism, as it relates to both waking up and growing up – “Transcending and Including” in states and structures of consciousness.
Integral Dharma 64 - Jun 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Today's talk begins with the Poem: Faith in Mind - “Hsin Hsin Ming” Written by the Third Patriarch Seng Can, 6th Century and Translated by Chan Master Shen-yen
The Supreme Way is not difficult
If only you do not pick and choose.
Neither love nor hate,
And you will clearly understand.
Be off by a hair,
And you are as far from it as heaven from earth.
If you want the Way to appear,
Be neither for nor against.
For and against opposing each other
This is the mind's disease.
Without recognizing the mysterious principle
It is useless to practice quietude.
Integral Dharma 63 - Jun 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 63rd Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question today is: Spiritual Growth and Awakening, the same thing or two different things?
Integral Dharma 62 - Jun 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 62nd Sunday Integral Dharma Call Today, Integral Zen's Perspective on: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
Integral Dharma 61 - May 30, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 61st Sunday Integral Dharma Call
Today: Integral Zen’s perspective on: Insight, Knowledge and Wisdom
Integral Dharma 60 - May 23, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 59 - May 16, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 59th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. Today: A Tribute to the passing of a Great Zen Master - Jun Po Kando Denis Kelly
Integral Dharma 58 - May 9, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 58th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. Today: The Doctrine of Two Truths
Integral Dharma - May 2, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 57th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. Today: The Practice of DANA – “Giving Generously – Medicine for Selfishness”
Integral Dharma 56 - Apr 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
this is the 56th Sunday Integral Dharma Call exploring states of body/mind
Integral Dharma 55 - Apr 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 55th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. Easter - Death and Resurrection - Dying and Rebirth
Integral Dharma 54 - Mar 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 54th Integral Dharma Call. Today the Koan: what is a Koan?
Integral Dharma 53 - Mar 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The 53rd Sunday Integral Dharma Call
The Koan:
Mumonkan Case 2 Hyakujõ's Fox
Integral Dharma 52 - Mar 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 52nd in a series of Integral Dharma Calls. Mar. 14th, 2021
The Integral Dharma Talk today was: What is Integral Dharma?
Integral Dharma 51 - Mar 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 51st Call in the series of Integral Dharma Calls. Mar. 7th, 2021
The question today was:
Start again with genuine curiosity and be willing to be surprised. Then find one prejudice against something that you are currently unconscious of (or unwilling to admit to) and bring it into the light of consciousness as an object that you can see.
Integral Dharma 50 - Feb 28, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 50th Call in the series of Integral Dharma Calls. Feb 28th, 2021
the Question today was:
Let’s see if you can find some genuine curiosity. Are you willing to be surprised? If you are, then consider the possibility that you might be prejudiced. Can you describe what you are prejudiced against?
Integral Dharma 49 - Feb 21, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 49th call in the series of Integral Dharma Calls. Feb 21st, 2021
The question today was:
Recall the last time you gave someone some constructive but critical feedback? How was it received? How did you feel when you delivered it? What was the impact of the feedback to your relationship?
Session 48 - Feb 14, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 48th Integral Dharma Call. The question today was: If you dislike someone, do you feel bad? who’s fault is it that you dislike them? Do you blame them or do you blame yourself?
Session 47 - Feb 7, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Session 46 - Jan 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Session 45 - Integral Dharma - Jan 24, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma 44 - Jan 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 44th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question today is: · Name three things you really hate, then enter and rest in a state of curiosity.
Integral Dharma 43 - Jan 10, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma Call 43. The question today was: Who is responsible for your emotional state and the impact of your emotional energy? Are you a puppet or master of your emotions?
Integral Dharma 42 - Jan 3, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 42nd Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question today is: How do you experience negative emotions? Are there rules that you follow regarding negative emotions?
Integral Dharma 41 - Dec 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 41st of the Sunday Integral Dharma Calls. The question today is: If you have identified circumstances whereyou fall into both victim and perpetrator, then ask yourself: If you are the bully, who is the victim? And, if you are the victim, who is the bully?
Integral Dharma 40 - Dec 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 40th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The daily question was: Now that you have identified and observed where in your life you are acting like a victim, are you ready to look for any circumstances where you are acting like a perpetrator or a bully?
Integral Dharma 39 - Dec 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 39th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question was: Since we began exploring this subject of victim mentality, have you become more sensitive to victim narratives being told by others? by yourself? How has this new sensitivity impacted your life and your relationships? Cost? Payoff?
Integral Dharma 38 - Dec 6, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Sunday Integral Dharma Call 38. Today the question is: The question today is: Are you telling a story of how you are or were, a victim of a collective persecution? Are you unconsciously carrying such a burden? And who is to be blamed?
Integral Dharma 37 - Nov 29, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 37th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question was: "If you have identified any places in your life where you fall into a “victim mentality,” First describe them, and then get really, really curious about what can you do next??
Integral Dharma 36 - Nov 22, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 36th Sunday Integral Dharma Talk. The question was: If you had reason to believe that you were repeatedly falling into a “victim mentality,” what would you do to see it and change it?
Integral Dharma 35 - Nov 15, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 35th Integral Dharma Call. The starting Question was: If someone you love and respect, told you that you were repeatedly falling into a “victim mentality,” how could you know if it was true?
Integral Dharma 34 - Nov 8, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Integral Dharma 33 - Nov 1, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
This is the 33rd Sunday Integral Dharma Call. Today's question is : In this time of lockdown, what did you believe you couldn’t live without, which you are surprised to find you don’t really need?
Integral Dharma 32 - Oct 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 31 - Oct 18, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Integral Dharma 30 - Oct 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 30th Sunday Integral Dharma Talk. We started with the question, " What is the most important thing?"
Integral Dharma 29 - Oct 4, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 29th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. We started with the questions: Who are you really? And what is truly real?
Integral Dharma 28 - Sep 27, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This the 28th Integral Dharma Call. The leading question was: Who do you really serve? And What do you truly trust?
Integral Dharma 27 - Sep 20, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
The 27th Sunday Integral Dharma Call, we started with the question: Can you serve the moment by bringing what is most essential?
Integral Dharma 26 - Sep 13, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
This is the 26th Sunday Integral Dharma Call. The question we started with today is: When you feel bad, who’s fault is it? Who or what do you blame when you experience negative emotions?