Henry Shukman Events

12/29/2019

Sometimes the most profound thing to say is nothing at all.

10/10/2019

We are giving ourselves to this moment

Dharmatalk: Points of Practice By Mountain Cloud on October 10, 2019 in Podcasts Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mczc/public_html/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php:225) in /home/mczc/public_html/wp-content/themes/mountain/functions.php on li...

10/10/2019

Mountain Cloud Zen Center, located on 20 pristine acres just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is seeking a live-in caretaker who has a strong interest in living and working in a space dedicated to zen meditation practice, and supporting the lively community that consider Mountain Cloud a focal point in their lives.

Mountain Cloud Seeking a Live-In Caretaker By MCZC on October 10, 2019 in General News & Announcements Mountain Cloud Zen Center, located on 20 pristine acres just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is seeking a live-in caretaker who has a strong interest in living and working in a space dedicated to....

10/10/2019

This talk recounts a recent teacher’s retreat in Germany with the Abbot of Sanbo Zen, Yamada Ryoun Roshi. It begins with the story of Father Lassalle, a Jesuit priest and Zen teacher

Dharmatalk: Living Our Deepest Nature By Mountain Cloud on October 3, 2019 in Podcasts Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mczc/public_html/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php:225) in /home/mczc/public_html/wp-content/themes/mountain/functions.php...

10/10/2019

Sit and be still, be silent, and let your heart open.

Message from Henry: Heart Opening By MCZC on October 1, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings Sit and be still, be silent, and let your heart open. It doesn’t matter what your spiritual practice is as long as it teaches you to love this world. Not “teach” in the sense of telling you to. Rather, that it m...

09/26/2019

The world is nothing but metamorphosis and life is nothing but an opinion. ~Marcus Aurelius

Dharmatalk: Case 7, The Gateless Gate: Joshu’s “Wash Your Bowls” By Mountain Cloud on September 26, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list. After enterin...

09/26/2019

The purpose of life is to help others through it.

The purpose of life is to experience love.

The purpose of life is to love ourselves.

The purpose of life is to awaken.

Message from Henry: Purpose of Life By MCZC on September 24, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings Which one of these statements is true? The purpose of life is to help others through it. The purpose of life is to experience love. The purpose of life is to love ourselves. The purpose of life is to awaken. Whic...

09/13/2019

“All spiritual discipline must grow out of a sincere heart.” ~Buddha

Dharmatalk: Case 88, Book of Equanimity: “Non-Seeing” in the Ryôgon Sutra (Part 1) By Mountain Cloud on September 12, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing li...

09/10/2019

The self-system consists of internal experience: images in the mind, talk in the mind, and emotion sensation in the body, especially the chest, solar plexus and belly.

Message from Henry: Self-System By MCZC on September 10, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings I was looking at an ad in a German rail-station. It showed a misty morning in an old German village among wooded hills, along with a chilled glass of classic beer – a “Landbier” as the ad called it, a “countr...

09/08/2019

…at some stage of our practice, it seems to be necessary to go all in.

Message from Henry, Outriggers of Practice By MCZC on September 3, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings …at some stage of our practice, it seems to be necessary to go all in. Last week’s message was about committing to a single path of practice. This week I’d like to add a rider to that. For some of us ...

09/05/2019

“Any phenomenon experienced at any time has the power to awaken us.”

Dharmatalk: Case 87, Book of Equanimity: Sozan: With or Without By Mountain Cloud on September 5, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list. After entering your e...

08/30/2019

Message from Henry: A Single Path By MCZC on August 27, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings Sometimes people feel they need to go to many different teachers. Master Sheng Yen says it’s as if they think they’ll get something from each teacher, say one dollar from each one, so if they go to ten they’ll h...

08/30/2019

“Sometimes I take away both the person and the world.” ~ Rinzai

Dharmatalk: Case 86, Book of Equanimity: Rinzai’s Great Enlightenment By Mountain Cloud on August 29, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list. After entering ...

08/22/2019

“… In between, there’s gold filling the whole land …” ~ Tangen

Dharmatalk: Case 85, Book of Equanimity: The National Teacher’s Gravestone (Part 3 of 3) By Mountain Cloud on August 22, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing li...

08/13/2019

No before or after.
No over there, no over here.
Just this.

Message from Henry: Just This By MCZC on August 13, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings No before or after. No over there, no over here. Just this. Time and space – vanished, gone. Only this. You could say: only peace, but that already spoils it. It has flavors: Silent. Still. Quiet. Infinitely soft. Utter...

08/07/2019

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Message from Henry: Seismic Dharma By MCZC on August 6, 2019 in Dharma & Teachings I had a dream recently in which Mountain Cloud was a great truck on which many of us were traveling – almost like a ship – riding through seismically active mountains. Volcanoes and fumaroles would steam and ruptu...

08/07/2019

“I knew that feeling of love which is the very essence of the soul for which no object is needed.” ~ Prince Andrei, War and Peace

Dharmatalk: Tolstoy and the Dharma By Mountain Cloud on August 1, 2019 in Podcasts To listen to this podcast please enter or confirm your email address. To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list. After entering your email, this page will reload, and...