"How is what it means to be human transformed, or expanded, by allowing or imagining another perspective?"

"Let the rage and the hurt and the righteous anger be one of the things that we affirm in this wide, life affirming embrace."

"Sometimes it can look like the project is not to feel and not to listen to pain. But can we start, instead, to regard our pain as a kind of superpower?"

"When you walk in the door for the first time, there is already an aspiration to free all beings from suffering. Within the beginner's mind is the Bodhisattva vow, which for us is the heart/mind, the motivation that allows us to sit and be uncomfortable, because within the vow there is a spark of our natural wish to care for other beings."

"Let’s encourage each other to dance with our vows, to dance with the taste of our freedom."

"In the stability of practice, we have to humanize everybody."

"Is the mind that we are living with going to be one of division and aggression? Are we going to give in to that mind? Or is there another mind? The mind of the whole earth, the mind of all beings that doesn't make those kinds of divisions?"

"We are all sensitive beings that are feeling everything that has happened."

"Sometimes, when we are trying to understand how to work with the suffering of the world, we might fall into the belief that, somehow, I need to build up an individual, personal capacity to hold all of the suffering of the world. Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara tried that, and her head and her arms exploded."

"When we are sitting in confusion, instead of jumping to certainty, which is going to be rooted in fear, go to love—love for one's self first, as that confused being."

"We train in stillness so that we can respond in the world with the possibility of healing things that previously haven't been healed."

"The Bodhisattva vows are an affirmation of life. An open-hearted choice, a loving commitment to giving myself completely to this world of suffering with all beings."

"Though the conditioning of violence is thick—and it is old and sometimes it can feel calcified and intractable—it isn't. We are changeable, we can change ourselves, we can change how we think, we can change our habits. We can choose whether or not we are complicit in harming."

“The practice of equanimity is a practice of care, of bringing very close care to your body. What is happening right now as we sit? "

Dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny, 2023/12/08 "If I am sitting to get something, I am not totally here. And so my love and my giving is not complete."

Dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi, 2023/12/07 "Rohatsu: this is how we are cultivating the sweetness of Buddha's fruit."

"When dualistic thinking comes up it is usually protective. We are using it as a defense, we are making the world smaller because we can't tolerate how it's messy and complex."

"Our deep, ongoing, loving critical inquiry is something we only do fully with the help of each other, by being open to how our interaction with others contributes to creating a community of ethical care."

“Sometimes we might think that to pay attention to our own, particular pain is too small to be part of caring for the world. But learning how to care for our own pain is how we train to care for the whole world.”

"In absolute truth, we are all one, we are all connected. What we think, what we speak, and what we act—all these things impact everyone in the world, everything in the world."

In this brief introduction, which preceded a conversation with the BZC sangha at Boundless Mind ... Non-Duality: a short introduction by Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/09/09)

“Are our thoughts or actions moving in the direction of healing the delusion of being ... The Healing of a Life-Affirming Orientation: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/07/01)