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Anshin Retreat Talks 2016: 3 Videos ~ Dharmavidya

Links to

:: Day One

:: Day Two

:: Day Three

Secrecy and Deception ~ Dharmavidya

A Dharma talk given at the regular Friday morning service at Oasis.

By Dharmavidya.

:: link

 

Dharma Talk 3: Anshin Retreat ~ Dharmavidya

30 June

 

Dharma Talk 2: Anshin Retreat ~ Dharmavidya

 

Wednesday 29 June :: link 

 

 

Opening Dharma talk - Anshin retreat 28th June 2016 ~ Dharmavidya

 

 

 

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Dharmavidya - 2nd dharma talk from the Bodhi Retreat in Malvern

You'll find Talk 2 here

34 min:04 sec

keeping quiet

by Pablo Neruda

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

:: link to Sylvia Boorstein reading this poem

beautiful birds and nembutsu chanting - from jayata

 

chanting - a short film from the bodhi retreat

A film from the Amida Bodhi Retreat in December 2013

 

buddha amitabha song