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Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Santa Fe, NM

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2025’s First Dharma Talk with Valerie Forstman

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2025/01/08

Welcome in the new year with this Teisho offered by Mountain Cloud’s Guiding Teacher, Valerie Forstman. To see what Mountain Cloud has planned for the upcoming year, visit www.mountaincloud.org/newyear/

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31:57

“Darkness and Light Reveal Our True Nature” with...

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2024/12/19

During the season of Rohatsu, Solstice, Christmas and Hanukkha, Maria takes up the psalm of Isaiah: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.” This psalm becomes a

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33:58

Kali Basman: Cultivating Wonder

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2024/10/29

Kali invites us to examine the wide array of features that comprise “The Practice Field,” the many aspects of our path of practice. She states that as a species we

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56:10

Spring Retreat Talk 4, Gathering the Heart Mind with...

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2023/05/16

Dwelling no-where, mind comes forth~ from the Diamond Sutra Heart mind directs us to the fundamental point of who and what we are. In Chinese there is one term for

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Spring Retreat Talk 3, The Boat is on the River with...

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2023/05/09

Valerie explores the clarity and simplicity of Master Hogen who came to be known as the dharma eye of deep clarity. Focusing on Case 51 from Book of Equanimity, Valerie

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44:00

Spring Retreat Talk 2, The Stone Bridge: Crossing...

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2023/05/02

Something puts our feet on this path, starting from the ordinary dualistic world. Gradually, as we practice and practice, in some unguarded moment, everything falls away, and it’s just this.

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Spring Retreat Talk 1, Joshu’s Dog: Crossing Over,...

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2023/04/25

Crossing over to the other shore is the heart of our practice and the heart of Buddha’s teaching. Eventually we realize that we were always on the shore, here and

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51:52

Dharmatalk: Diamond Sutra and Living Beings with...

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2023/03/17

“Abiding no-where mind comes forth.” Maria Habito returns to Mountain Cloud’s zoom zendo and talks about the Diamond Sutra. When we enter deep silence, the diamond cuts through every notion

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45:32

Rohatsu 2022: Day 6, Vibes, Awakening and What then?...

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2023/03/07

For this final Rohatsu talk, Henry looks at three questions. What are we doing here, just sitting with each other? What is awakening? and What then? We are living “it”

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53:29

Rohatsu 2022: Day 5, Cannot Get Wet, Cannot Get Dry...

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2023/02/28

In this talk from day 5 of the Rohatsu sesshin, Valerie picks up on the previous day’s talk by Henry where he presents the title and first line of the

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39:05

Rohatsu 2022: Day 4, Prajnaparamitra, The Heart Sutra...

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2023/02/07

What is this practice? Why do it? Essentially, it’s all about slowing down and things falling away. Our very existence, our being gets simpler. Henry looks at the title and

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40:36

Rohatsu 2022: Day 3, All-Inclusive Awakening with...

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2023/01/17

In celebration of Shakyamuni Buddha’s awakening, Valerie takes up the Head Chapter of the Denkoroku or Transmission of Light. “I and the great earth and all beings simultaneously attain the

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Rohatsu 2022: Day 2, What Matters Most with Henry...

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2023/01/12

Henry asks the question, matters most? When you reflect on this question, have any open mind, beyond ordinary or day to day concerns. He asks, what is this experience and

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Rohatsu 2022: Day 1, Light Sitting in Light with...

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2023/01/03

In this talk from the first day of the Rohatsu sesshin, 2022, Valerie offers a tribute to Sr. Elaine MacInnes, Roshi, who died a week ago and whose celebration of

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44:38

Dharmatalk: Zen Jhanas with Stephen Snyder

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2022/12/13

Guest speaker Stephen Snyder of the Jhana tradition visits Mountain Cloud and offers a teisho on the Buddha’s first and last practice. Jhana practice predates the Buddha by at least

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Dharmatalk: Life is Not Suffering with Rick Hanson

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2022/12/08

It is said that the Buddha teaches only suffering and its end, but what is suffering? Guest speaker Rick Hanson attempts to define this suffering, challenging that suffering is only

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Dharmatalk: Towards Healing with Peggy Sheehan

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2022/11/29

“We don’t study koans, we use koans to investigate our life.” ~ Maezumi Roshi Guest teacher Peggy Sheehan from Zen Center Denver says that koans have been a life long

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Dharmatalk: Complete Exposure of the Golden Wind with...

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2022/11/15

On this first day of Fall, Teshin takes up case 27 of the Blue Cliff Record, Unmon’s Complete Exposure. The Case reads as follows: A monk asked Unmon, “What is

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Dharmatalk: Each is All, All is One with Valerie...

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2022/11/08

Upon being welcomed home from Germany, Valerie describes briefly what it’s like being thrown immediately into the chaotic activity of moving from her home in Dallas to Santa Fe: “Constant

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38:19

Dharmatalk: Coming Home, I am Already That with...

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2022/11/01

In this talk – an offering of gratitude for the life of a beloved sangha member, Valerie turns to Case 41 in the Transmission of Light or Denkoroko. A monk

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