Awakening Streams: The One River Zen Podcast Sensei Michael Brunner, One River Zen

Sensei Michael gives a Dharma Talk about letting go of our judgements about self and others as a prerequisite to awakening. Case six of the Record of Stone and Sand is discussed: No Loving-kindness

Sensei Michael speaks with his students during sesshin about how our expectations get in the way of opening to what is right in front of us. Case six of the Shoyoroku, Baso's White and Black is discussed.

Sensei Michael Shikan Brunner Discusses case number ninety-one from the Shaseki-shu - "The Taste of Banzo's Sword." Sensei teaches that when we devote ourselves fully to being open, we find the unexpected always bringing us joy and richness.

Sensei Michael discusses the nineteenth case of The Gateless Gate: Ordinary Mind is the Way. He stresses the importance of not looking at a spiritual path as something extra - instead finding it in every moment of our lived experience.

Sensei Michael discusses letting go of practice as a means to an end as a way of opening to our True Nature and appreciating our lives directly.

Sensei Michael gives a case on case fifty-nine of the Book of Equanimity: Seirin's Deadly Snake. In it, he speaks of the importance of surrender on the spiritual path - a way of being beyond knowing that causes us to be actualized by our lived experience.