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Author: Zach Smith

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Statement on Racial Justice

Posted on: September 13, 2021 Last updated on: September 13, 2021 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Statement by SnowFlower Sangha on Racial Injustice As a sangha practicing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, SnowFlower Sangha mourns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other victims of the confluence of racism and…
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Statement on Racial Justice – Updated

Posted on: September 13, 2021 Last updated on: September 13, 2021 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Update on Statement by SnowFlower Sangha on Racial Injustice For many SnowFlower members, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Engaged Buddhism is what drew them to this sangha. Aware of the disproportionate number of people of color in Wisconsin prisons, for over a…
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SnowFlower Sun May 2021

Posted on: April 30, 2021 Last updated on: April 30, 2021 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
A Guided Metta Meditation adapted from Kamala Masters by Mary Michal May I relax my heart and my body. Praise and blame, happiness and suffering, all arise and pass away in the spaciousness of metta and equanimity. Start with yourself.…
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SnowFlower Sun March 2020

Posted on: February 25, 2020 Last updated on: February 25, 2020 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Letting Go The type of practice in which I am engaged is letting go by giving everything (bestowing in imagination) to the sources of wisdom, which I call “the Buddhas”. It involves imagining giving everything away as an offering. A…
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SnowFlower Sun February 2020

Posted on: January 27, 2020 Last updated on: January 27, 2020 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Embracing the Sacred and the Mundane As many of us recognize, at least intellectually, the sacred and the mundane are one and the same. The sacred is this material world, freed from the prison of conceptual mind. What makes this…
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SnowFlower Sun January 2020

Posted on: December 27, 2019 Last updated on: December 27, 2019 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Mindfulness of What? Mindfulness is always mindfulness of something. This very explicit instruction of Thay’s will be explored in this talk. Mindfulness is always mindfulness of something, and true mindfulness is awareness of the impermanent, non-self reality of the object…
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SnowFlower Sun December 2019

Posted on: December 27, 2019 Last updated on: December 27, 2019 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
The First Practice and the First Perfection from a talk by a SnowFlower Dana is the term used in Buddhism to refer to the practice of giving. Recognized in all wisdom traditions as one of the most basic virtues, the…
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SnowFlower Sun November 2019

Posted on: October 29, 2019 Last updated on: October 29, 2019 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Excerpts from Bonnie Trudell’s talk on the Four Immeasurable Minds The Four Immeasurable Minds is one of the clearest and most beautiful teachings of the Buddha. The four elements of true love — love, compassion, joy, and equanimity – are…
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SnowFlower Sun October 2019

Posted on: September 26, 2019 Last updated on: September 26, 2019 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Excerpts from Cheri’s Lamp Transmission Dharma Talk by Cheri Maples January 9, 2008. Dear Thay, Dear Venerables, Dear Sangha: Finding Thay’s teachings and being instructed and supported in developing a mindfulness practice have been the greatest gifts in my life.…
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SnowFlower Sun July 2019

Posted on: July 2, 2019 Last updated on: July 2, 2019 Written by: Zach Smith Comments: 0
Delusion from a talk by Steven Spiro In Buddhist traditions, avidya, delusion, is known as one of the Three Hindrances. Greed, hatred, delusion. In Sanskrit and Pali languages we find that such terms embody their opposite. [In English too a…
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