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Right Mindfulness and Vegetable Gardens
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
26 May 2021
Tending to the natural world, tending to our lives
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Suffering and Joy on a Buddhist Homestead
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
23 April 2021
Bringing Buddhist practice to cultivating the earth and…
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Buddhist Practice and Our Inner Light
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
24 March 2021
Engaging in the many ways we can bring forth our..
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Cleaning Our Minds and Seeing the Pure Land
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
19 February 2021
Learning to see the beauty of the world through a clearer…
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Right Speech is Responsible Speech
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
27 January 2021
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from…
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Dance in the Flames of Suffering
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
23 December 2020
The importance of accepting the pain inherent in life
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Practicing the Dharma and Picking Sides
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
24 November 2020
Buddhist practice is not inaction or passivity, but…
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Pandemics and Inner Peace
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
22 October 2020
Finding peace in our circumstances through letting…
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Buddhist Thoughts on Freedom
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
30 September 2020
From the office to the farm, the conditions of the material…
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Compassion and Meaning: Moving Beyond Nihilism
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
25 August 2020
Realizing the infinite in sunyata
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Karma and Free Will
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
23 July 2020
Cultivating ethics in a realm of limited freedom