This podcast features Roshi Bernie Glassman's teachings at Upaya over the years and is a memorial series honoring his profound Zen teachings and socially engaged work in the world.
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This podcast features Roshi Bernie Glassman's teachings at Upaya over the years and is a memorial series honoring his profound Zen teachings and socially engaged work in the world.
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Gate of Sweet Nectar 2015 (Part 2 of 5)
Bernie Glassman at Upaya
54 minutes 54 seconds
7 years ago
Roshi Bernie Glassman: Gate of Sweet Nectar 2015 (Part 2 of 5)
Part 2: Feeding everyone. Bernie explains the inner logic and dramatic progression of the liturgy’s several pieces. It proceeds through loving invitations and invocations, magic work to actualize energies and feed everyone; through giving teachings; and climaxes with giving and taking the Buddhist precepts. Shingon condenses the five precepts into two: “Now I have raised the Bodhi mind;” “I am the Buddhas and they are me.” Do you feel like a fibber when you say them? That’s a live edge to explore, because you should try not to fib. Throughout, when we summon the various Bodhisattvas and hungry ghosts and all of it, it’s key to understand: we’re not summoning from afar, we’re recognizing within.
Bernie Glassman at Upaya
This podcast features Roshi Bernie Glassman's teachings at Upaya over the years and is a memorial series honoring his profound Zen teachings and socially engaged work in the world.
