by Amy Kisei
Zen Buddhist teachings point to a profound view of reality--one of deep interconnection and non-separation. Awakening is a word used to describe the freedom, creativity and love of our original nature. This podcast explores the profound liberating teachings of Zen Buddhism at the intersection of dreamwork and the soul. The intention is to offer a view of awakening that explores our deep interconnection with the living world and the cosmos as well as to invite a re-imagining of what human life and culture could be if we lived our awakened nature. Amy Kisei is a Zen Buddhist Teacher with 12 years of monastic training. She currently studies the intersection of Zen Buddhism, Jungian Dream-work, Archetypal Psychology, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic mindfulness and creativity. She leads retreats and weekly meditation events, as well as offers 1:1 Spiritual Counseling. <br/><br/><a href="https://amykisei.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">amykisei.substack.com</a>
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June 28, 2024
<p><p><strong>Between aspiration, practice, enlightenment and nirvana there is not a moment’s gap. Continuous Practice is the Circle of the Way. —Dogen Zenji</strong></p></p><p>In Dharma practice we are invited to reflect on our view—the beliefs that rest at the root of our hearts and influence how we perceive, make sense of and respond to our lives.</p><p>For what we think and believe has a deep effect on what we see and perceive. Our thoughts have power. As anyone who has observed or studied conflict may know—so much of the violence in the world stems from a difference in opinion, belief or view.</p><p>In Dharma practice—we are invited to ask the radical question.</p><p><em>What am I believing?</em></p><p><em>What is my mind thinking right now?</em></p><p><strong>And is it true? Is it really true?</strong></p><p>When we take thoughts or beliefs as ultimate truth—divisiveness, conflict or isolation often follow suit. Our thoughts are powerful. And we can actually use this insight to try on other ways of viewing our lives or reality.</p><p><strong>What happens when we take up a view of unconditional acceptance? </strong></p><p><strong>Love unbounded? </strong></p><p><strong>Freedom for all beings?</strong></p><p>This is the heart of what we call—the Bodhisattva Vow. And it is often articulated as a vow to work towards liberation for all beings.</p><p>This podcast episode is a recording of a Dharma Talk given on Monday June 17th during my online Zen Meditation gathering. During it I explore the power of Bodhisattva Vision. So often we engage our own dharma practice or meditation practice from a view of “what can I get out of this” and then judge the practice for “not giving us what we want.”</p><p>Bodhisattva vision is grounded in the insight that we are interconnected with all beings and this living earth. </p><p><strong>What happens when we ground our practice and our living in compassion for all beings (including ourselves)? </strong></p><p><strong>When our view of liberation is a view of liberation for everyone? </strong></p><p><strong>When we recognize or even imagine that all being is shared being?</strong></p><p>….</p><p>I’m <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amykisei.org/">Amy Kisei</a>. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, Meditation Coach, Astrologer and Artist. In my <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amykisei.org/11-counseling">Spiritual Counseling Practice</a>, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. Spiritual Counseling can help you:</p><p>* Companion Grief + Loss</p><p>* Clarify Life Purpose</p><p>* Healing Relational Conflict + Inner Conflict</p><p>* Work with Shadow Material</p><p>* Heal your relationship with Eating, Food or Body Image</p><p>* Spiritual Emergence</p><p>* Integrate Psychedelic or Mystical Experiences</p><p>* Move Through Creative Blocks, Career Impasses and Burnout</p><p>I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy) and Mindful Eating.</p><p>I also lead a weekly online meditation group, you can read more about below.</p><p><strong>Monday Night Meditation + Dharma</strong></p><p>6P PT / 9P ET</p><p>Join me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring embodiment, compassion and the principles of engaged buddhism. All are welcome to join.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82254519073">Zoom Link for Monday Night</a></p><p>I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mudlotussangha.org/">Mud Lotus Sangha</a>. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by!</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://amykisei.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">amykisei.substack.com/subscribe</a>
April 30, 2024
<p>This talk is part of a series of talks exploring the Engaged Buddhist Precepts of Thich Nhat Hanh and the Order of Interbeing. In this talk we explore how to practice with the suffering we encounter in ourselves, others and the world—recognizing that our suffering isn’t separate from the world’s suffering.</p><p>The concept of the World Wound comes from Joan Halifax Roshi’s book A Fruitful Darkness, quoted below.</p><p><p>As the environmental aspects of our alienation from the ground of life become increasingly apparent, the social, physical, mental, and spiritual correlates rise into view. We all suffer in one way or another. Consciously or unconsciously, we wish to be liberated from this suffering. Some of us will attempt to transcend suffering. Some of us will be overwhelmed and imprisoned by it. Some of us in our attempts to rid ourselves of suffering will create more pain. In the way of shamans and Buddhists, we are encouraged to face fully whatever form our suffering takes, to confirm it, and, finally, to let it ignite our compassion and wisdom. We ask, How can we work with this suffering, this “World Wound”? How can our experience of this wound connect us to the web of creation? And how can this wound be a door to compassion and compassionate action?</p></p><p>The talk ends with a guided version of Tonglen practice, where we pay particular attention to how we feel and experience suffering, spaciousness/interconnection and compassion on a somatic level.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://amykisei.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">amykisei.substack.com/subscribe</a>
April 30, 2024
<p>In the Buddhist tradition we are invited to look into the nature of suffering. To do this we have to be willing to turn towards it. While this may seem obvious—we all have habits + behaviors for avoiding what is right in front of us, especially if what is right in front of us is painful, unpleasant or uncomfortable. For even a single-celled organism moves away from a painful stimulus.</p><p>And yet, what teachers and practitioners throughout the tradition have found is that this moving away, fighting, resisting what is happening actually causes more suffering!</p><p>To meet what is happening with openness and embodied curiosity—allows us to actual see what is going on here, to feel our feelings, the seemingly uncomfortable sensations in our bodies and minds and to realize that we actually have this capacity. This capacity to feel anxiety, shame, discomfort, doubt, rage. And when we feel the sensations and feelings without getting into the story about them—inevitably they change, they reveal more what they actually are, the fleeting movement of energy moving through a spacious awareness.</p><p>Our capacity to turn towards our own discomfort and suffering with curiosity and openness, allows for a compassionate response to our own suffering—which also builds our capacity to turn towards the suffering we find in the world. </p><p>In actually all suffering is connected, because our being is shared being. The systems of injustice, greed and hatred that seem to perpetuate suffering in our world, affect us all as individuals. This talk is an exploration of one of the foundational precepts of engaged buddhism. </p><p><p>Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering, including personal contact, visits, images, and sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.</p></p><p>It is an invitation to turn towards suffering in our lives and the life of the world. It is an invitation into the deep realization of our shared being, our interconnection. It is an exploration of living a compassionate response as a practice of staying engaged with the heart of the world.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://amykisei.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">amykisei.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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