Buddha & Brew

12/05/2021

This week we will revisit forgiveness. Forgiving ourselves and others can be hard. It's the simplest thing to do, it just isn't very easy and takes practice.

10/24/2021

It’s a practice, not a perfect

10/23/2021

Good luck

09/19/2021

Today’s Dharma talk

09/19/2021

One day my teacher Ajahn Chah held up a beautiful Chinese tea cup, “To me this cup is already broken. Because I know its fate, I can enjoy it fully here and now. And when it’s gone, it’s gone.” When we understand the truth of , we become free.

The broken cup helps us see beyond our illusion of control. When we commit ourselves to raising a child, building a business, creating a work of art, or righting an injustice, some measure of failure as well as success will be ours. This is a fierce teaching.
We may lose our best piece of pottery in the firing, the charter school we work so hard to create may fold, our start up business may go under, our children may develop problems beyond our control. If we only focus on the results, we will be devastated. But if we know the cup is broken, we can give our best to the process, create what we can and trust the larger process of life itself.

We can plan, we can care for, tend and respond. But we cannot control. Instead we take a breath, and open to what is unfolding, where we are. This is a profound shift, from holding on, to letting go. As Suzuki Roshi says, “When we understand the truth of impermanence and find our composure in it, there we find ourselves in Nirvana.”

09/19/2021

We’ll be meeting at the Dew Drop Inn tomorrow
9am

09/17/2021

08/15/2021

https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/66292/

08/01/2021

Marcus is getting a late start today. Partied to hard at the burlesque show last night!

07/25/2021

Here is today’s talk

07/25/2021

As Covid -19 starts coming back, the Delta variant is surging in the ER, I feel a lot of anxiety off my friends, my family, my patients. Should we shut down again? I hope we don't shut down again? Should I get vaccinated, what if I get vaccinated, what if my well runs dry, what if there's a fire. Anxiety is everywhere, and in everyone.

This week we'll focus on compassion with a talk from Tara burk on anxiety and facing it with compassion