
Presented by the Mountain Rain Zen Community based in Vancouver, BC. Featuring talks by our guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, and other guest speakers. To learn more about our community, explore our extensive teaching archive, and offer your support, visit mountainrainzen.org.
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 235 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Religion & SpiritualityBuddhism | |||

Shinmon Michael Newton begins his talk with an exploration of what the word pilgrimage means, then takes the listener on a meandering path of depth and discovery.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers a sense of how the recent five week pilgrimage in Japan was like an intensive zen retreat.
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Enryu Anusha Fernando gives a talk on the Meghiya Sutta and its focus on the importance of friendship.
We don’t live in a neutral experience and our practice is to pay attention to the offerings of community, of sangha.
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Daikan Green continues our dharma seminar, offering comments on the finger snap.
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A contemplative series exploring Zen practice, Buddhist philosophy, and poetic imagery as pathways to awakening. Episodes frequently center on Dogen, koan-like passages, and the Lotus Sutra, weaving textual study with practical guidance for daily mindfulness, compassion, and embodied awareness. The hosts—guiding teachers from a Vancouver-based Zen community—often frame talks around interdependence, impermanence, and the ongoing nature of awakening, using vivid parables and poetry to illuminate non-duality and everyday realization. Noteworthy is a steady blend of rigorous textual interpretation with accessible, personal reflections, plus occasional discussions on translating ancient teachings into modern life. Those drawn to introspective pr... more
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