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Dharma
I am a lay initiate in the Soto Zen lineage of Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka Roshi.
My teacher is Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston Roshi, founding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order.
Matsuoka Roshi
Elliston Roshi
My Dharma name is Kyosaku.
I was the original producer of Elliston Roshi’s UnMind podcast, and I created and co-hosted the Householders podcast with Inga Annie Tudora, which ran for 59 episodes.
Weekday Zazen
on Base
I, along with other volunteer householders, hold a weekly schedule of silent meditation over video call.
Zazen is one of the ongoing activities on Base, a private message board for householders at any stage of life to hang out and hold council on topics of community, family, livelihood, skills, and spirituality.
Access to Base is part of Householders, the taalumot.space annual membership. We would love to have you join us for zazen.
Buddhism Posts
Not arriving at clarification does not mean the practice has not worked in a meaningful way.
I don’t care whether it will result in ultimate attainment, but I do value every little step.
The best teacher is probably someone who learned the same way you’re learning.
These vehicles carried Buddhism out of the Yogic land-body, into new land-bodies indigenous to elsewhere.
The more psychedelic neurochemical cascades you’ve made it through with your prefrontal cortex intact, the better, I guess.
A: The belief that buddhas can transmit actionable information about the process by which they became buddhas.
I see we’re still doing “Meditation™ is dangerous” instead of “culturally denuded brain hacking is dangerous.”