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Author: Gloria Green

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SnowFlower Sun January 2021

Posted on: December 28, 2020 Last updated on: December 28, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
MY MASTER’S ROBE by Thich Nhat Hanh My monastic ordination at Tu Hieu temple was scheduled for 4:00 o’clock in the morning. The night before, after chanting practice, I saw my teacher (Master Thanh Qui, of Tu Hieu Temple) sitting…
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SnowFlower Sun December 2020

Posted on: November 27, 2020 Last updated on: November 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Awakening Joy through the Practice of Gratitude from a talk by Mary Michal in January of 2015 I used to think that joy was a feeling that I would either experience or not, and the same with gratitude. I now…
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SnowFlower Sun November 2020

Posted on: October 28, 2020 Last updated on: October 31, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Discourse on the Dharma Seal from a talk by Jim Roseberry (Spring, 2013) What is the essence of this discourse in which the Buddha identified the Dharma Seal as the Three Doors of Liberation: emptiness, signlessness, wishlessness. To answer this,…
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SnowFlower Sun October 2020

Posted on: September 27, 2020 Last updated on: September 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Tonglen Loving Kindness from a talk by Cheri Maples Tonglen is a loving kindness practice that has its roots in the Tibetan tradition. Interestingly, it is actually the reverse of the loving kindness meditation we usually practice. Normally we breathe…
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SnowFlower Sun September 2020

Posted on: August 27, 2020 Last updated on: August 27, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
APRANIHITI – the Third Door of Liberation from a talk by Amy Krohn Thay gives us many touchstones to rely on in our practice, so beautifully pulling profound concepts into simple explanations, and then encouraging us to practice and work…
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SnowFlower Sun August 2020

Posted on: July 26, 2020 Last updated on: July 29, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Practicing  Compassion  Amid  Chaos  &  Illusion from a talk by Jim Roseberry  in 2016 The term ‘compassion’ maintains an exalted status in Buddhism. Avalokiteshvara (or Kwan Yin) is revered as the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Along with loving kindness, joy, and equanimity, compassion is…
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SnowFlower Sun July 2020

Posted on: June 26, 2020 Last updated on: June 26, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Where is Thich Nhat Hanh Right Now? from a talk by Steven Spiro, Spring, 2015 Thay is known for saying that the next Buddha will be the Sangha. In Buddhist tradition the next Buddha is called Maitreya {from Sanskrit ‘maitri’,…
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SnowFlower Sun June 2020

Posted on: May 29, 2020 Last updated on: May 29, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Compassion from a talk by Gloria Green Compassion is the strong wish of the heart to alleviate suffering. Our hearts open to the suffering that is there with a feeling of connection to those suffering. Thay says that compassion is…
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SnowFlower Sun May 2020

Posted on: April 25, 2020 Last updated on: April 25, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
A  Cloud  Never  Dies from a talk by David Zeman “What Happens When We are Alive and What Happens When We Die?” This was the theme of a retreat with Thay at Plum Village that I attended a few years…
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SnowFlower Sun April 2020

Posted on: March 31, 2020 Last updated on: March 31, 2020 Written by: Gloria Green Comments: 0
Interplay of the Divine Abodes from a talk by Gloria Green Loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity are called divine as they teach us how to lessen suffering, and they are called abodes because they are our true home.…
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