2017-08-16 – Personality Filters

Les discusses how our personality filters can get in the way of seeing things clearly, and how practice helps remove these distortions […]

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2017-08-09 – Andy Narayanan – Artificial Intelligence

Andy started meditating on his own in 2010 and began formal Zen practice at Kannon Do in 2014. He is currently developing an artificial intelligence startup in San Francisco. Here he shares his experiences bringing Zen practice into his tech-oriented work life […]

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2017-08-02 – Guest Speaker: Elie Calhoun

Elie Calhoun is a global leadership expert and social entrepreneur using technology to solve inequity in the world’s most challenging places. She is Director of Leadership Development at Singularity University’s flagship Global Solutions Program, leads the Wellness faculty and contributes to Executive Programs and SU Ventures […]

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2017-07-12 – Saving All Beings

If we try to save others without saving ourselves, this is dualistic. If we try to save ourselves without concern for others, this is also dualistic. Saving all beings includes us, and it also includes others. This is true selflessness […]

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2017-07-05 – Not That Kind of Surrender

To surrender in Zen is to let go of harmful beliefs and the stubborn image we have of ourselves. We let down those walls that we believe have been protecting us, which have actually been isolating us […]

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2017-06-28 – Blades of Grass

Les discusses the importance of having respect for everything, even the smallest blades of grass […]

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