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Speaker:Wendy Johnson

Truly, that time it was a gateless gate for me being left unaware of the truth. Wendy Johnson, the speaker, was kind enough t to o having repeated many times the answer ” The oak tree in the garden”, for some different questions. I think that was an appropriate move by the speaker, in order for the students immersed with the same idea for a. Gateless Gate Empowers an individual to reach for, to touch, to directly see/experience the enlightened person within, regardless of religion or spiritual inclination. Zen uses Zazen (a non-meditation form of meditation) a practice that uses no object as a focal point therefore freeing the mind from its habit of creating opposites. The Gateless Gate is a personal pictorial reflection on the compilation of Zen cases referred to as the Mumonkan or Gateless Gate. In 2010, a series of events instigated this idea of completing a drawing for each of the Mumonkan’s 48 stories. Welcome Welcome to The Gateless Gate, mussings on the meaning of Life, the Universe and how to make sense of it all. Subscribe to stay on top of things. The Gateless method is scientifically proven to help heal old traumas, end toxic relationships, manifest love with the “right” person, move you away from work that no longer serves you and allow for an overall healthier lifestyle.

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In this inspiring Winter Practice Period Dharma talk, Wendy Johnson uses the koan of the Oak in the Courtyard as a threshold to bring us into the ‘the root system of the great heart, of the great matter.’

‘How we can let the koan soak us in,…for they are love stories, yet, we can love them so much we would never speak of them…’ and also, ‘…we can love them so much that we can never stop thinking of them.’

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For Program/Series description, please visit Winter Practice Period 2021 INTRO: Passing through the Gateless Gate.

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Upaya Podcast Series: WINTER PRACTICE PERIOD 2021: Passing Through The Gateless Gate

Sensei Wendy Johnson

Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wendy has been practicing Zen meditation for thirty-five years and has led...

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Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wendy has been practicing Zen meditation for thirty-five years and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. Wendy is one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. She has been teaching gardening and environmental education to the public since the early 1980s.
In 2000 Wendy and her husband, Peter Rudnick, received the annual Sustainable Agriculture Award from the National Ecological Farming Association. Since 1995 Wendy has written a quarterly column, “On Gardening,” for Tricycle Magazine, a Buddhist Review. She was honored in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2000, published by Houghton Mifflin. Wendy is a mentor and advisor to the Edible Schoolyard program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, a project that she has been involved in since in its inception in 1995. Gardening at the Dragon's Gate is Wendy's first book.

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