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Natural Wisdom

by Ji Hyang Padma

Reflecting back the teachings I receive from all my sanghas: Zen lineage, all beings, this natural world.

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Episodes

  1. Metta Meditation- Omega 2026

    This is a metta meditation using traditional Pali phrases.

  2. A Recording of Metta Practice at lovely Omega Institute

    At this time of year, my teaching at Omega Institute approaches. Here is a recording of Metta infused with the light and birdsong of the Omega Sanctuary.

  3. Medicine and Illness Cure Each Other: A koan

    This Dharma talk is based on Zen Master Un Mun's koan, "Medicine and disease cure each other. The whole world is medicine. What is your true self?"

  4. Wholeness Rather Than Perfectionism

    At this time, let’s recognize that Mindfulness is not about continuous serenity. If we are doing our work we experience wholeness, a dynamic state that involves working with emotions such as powerlessness and fear. Join us in this exploration.

  5. Zen, Somatics and Satipatthana Sutta: Practices for Healing

    In addition to teaching Zen, I have also trained in counseling and psychology, and done some training in trauma and recovery and have offered stress reduction classes in hospitals, universities, a variety of settings. I sense the Covid experience as a collective trauma, most skillfully addressed...

  6. Approaching this Kairos- time as Initiation and as Living Ceremony

    Open Gate Zen Collective Saturday Morning 3.14.20 We are collectively going through a time of complete transformation: Kairos, a turning moment. Kairos, to the Greeks, referred to the sacred and vital nature of time, a choice point, in which we must seize the opportunity as it arises. Kairos is…

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  7. Diamond Sutra, part 3

    In which flying birds leave no footprints on the blue sky.

  8. Sensei Shinzan Palma, on Renunciation

    Given at the Chapel of Awareness November 23, 2019

  9. Diamond Sutra, Part 2

    As Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh notes, to see clear water, one must look past the reflection and the sunlight. In this episode we discuss the three bodies of Buddha: Dharmakaya, Nirmanakaya and Sambhogakaya-- and point directly to mind.

  10. Shinzan: November 8, 2019

    This Dharma talk was given at CIHS November 8th , 2019.

  11. Diamond Sutra, part 1

    This is the first Dharma Talk on the Diamond Sutra in an occasional series. Recorded at Chapel of Awareness, November 9, 2019.

  12. Metta meditation

    Recorded at Chapel of Awareness November 9, 2019

  13. Bearing Witness

    This Dharma talk was given on Saturday, October 19th at Chapel of Awareness, Encinitas. If you receive benefit from this podcast series, you can support the creator with a dana donation, which will help support the future of this podcast and the Dharma teaching: paypal.me/naturalwisdomdana.

  14. It Doesn't Have To .Be the Blue Iris

    We visit Inspiration, waterfalls, and the entire universe in a single flower. Given at Chapel of Awareness, October 11, 2019.

  15. The Sending- Forth.1

    From a Buddhist perspective, it is believed that death, like life, is a journey. The consciousness opens up in a particularly powerful way at the time of death; there is the opportunity for awakening on that great journey ... In this presentation, we will explore Buddhist approaches to…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Reflecting back the teachings I receive from all my sanghas: Zen lineage, all beings, this natural world.

HOSTED BY

Ji Hyang Padma

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