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Zen and Creativity

37 min • 5 juni 2025

Kakuko Kaye Simard discusses the intersection of Zen practice and artistic expression. What does it mean to be creative? How do we cultivate the willingness, patience, and trust to complete a relationship with something outside of ourselves?

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Zen and Creativity

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Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 4)

Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 3)

Practice of the Wild (M&W sesshin day 2)

Practice of the Wild (M&W sesshin day 1)

Dialogues in a Dream - To Be in the Garden

To Acknowledge and Renew - Fusatsu

Dialogues in a Dream - What is Your Relationship to the World?

Zen Mind, Baby Mind

Dialogues in a Dream - To Read or Not to Read

Seeing our Demons

Dialogues in a Dream - What is Compassion?

The Karma of Words

Dialogues in a Dream - What Would You Ask a Time-travelling Zen Master?

What is this Light that Everyone Has?

Living with Ease in a Crazy World (Training in Compassion - 8/)

Practice Zen, Cultivate Resilience

Zen and Creativity

Seeing Double

The Discipline of Relationships (Training in Compassion - 7/)

Seeds of Life, Seeds of Dharma

When Everything is the Path, Nothing is Left Out (Training in Compassion 6/)

The Great Matter of Birth and Death

Make Practice Your Whole Life (Training in Compassion - 5/)

In the Spirit of Mothers' Day

Transform Bad Circumstances into the Path (Training in Compassion - 4/)

The Way is Easy - Just Avoid Preferences

Inanimate Objects Speak the Dharma

Relative Compassion (Training in Compassion - 3/)

Different Ways of Expressing What it is to be Human

Absolute Compassion (Training in Compassion - 2/)

A ZED talk for Earth Day

Resolve to Begin (Training in Compassion - 1/)

Following the Precepts

Everyday Zen (9/9): Service

Religion's Relevance to Contemporary Society

Everyday Zen (8/9): Boundaries

Everyday Zen (7/9): Choices

Not One Not Two: Art and Practice – a ZED talk by Onsen Kerr

Dogen Intensive: Moon (3/3)

Dogen Intensive: Moon (2/3 - Closing Retreat)

Dogen Intensive: Moon (1/3 - Closing Retreat)

Dogen Intensive: Dreams (4/4)

Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (3/3)

Dogen Intensive: Dreams (3/4)

Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (2/3)

Dogen Intensive: Dreams (2/4)

Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (1/3)

Dogen Intensive: Dreams (1/4)

Dogen Intensive: Miracles (3/3)

Dogen Intensive: Miracles (2/3 - Opening Retreat)

Dogen Intensive: Miracles (1/3 - Opening Retreat)

Everyday Zen (6/9): Suffering

Anger and Forgiveness

Everyday Zen (5/9): Ideals

What is Death with Dignity?

Everyday Zen (4/9): Relationships

Truth and Beauty in Hard Times

Everyday Zen (3/9): Feelings

Working With Anger: Practising Patience (2/2)

Working With Anger: Avoiding the Hook (1/2)

Everyday Zen (2/9): What is Practice?

Zen, Karate, and Kiai - ZED Talk with Michael Hare

Everyday Zen (1/9): Love and Work

Taking Vows in a Troubled World

Tribute to Hozan Alan Senauke

Joy

Impermanence and Uncertainty

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (7)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (6)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (5)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (4)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (3)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (2)

Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (1)

Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (14)

Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (13)

Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (12)

Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (11)