Soryu Forall Talk Excerpts

Q&A with Soryu Forall

Why is a reverence for the power of animals apparently missing from modern Buddhism? Recently, a MAPLE Resident who has a deep love for indigenous spirituality heartfully asked Sōryū this question. His answer explores our assumptions about Buddhism, about the world around us, and how a connection with animals and nature is essential.
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The Wisdom of the Porcupine -  Q&A with Soryu Forall

What do we do when we feel so much grief for the destruction of nature that it hurts? This can be difficult to face, but fortunately a MAPLE resident was courageous enough to ask Soryu for guidance on it. In an answer that can provide solace and encouragement for those who care for the world, he touches on:
- how to relate to the grief
- how to perceive the problem so that we truly contribute to resolving it
- why it's important to see we are living the solution when we're doing as much good as we can
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
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We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
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How To Face Grief For Destruction - Q&A with Soryu Forall

In order to sustain our practice, it's essential to celebrate our progress, but how do we do that without so much of the ego that we work hard to relinquish? Soryu Forall provides guidance on this tricky aspect of spiritual development. 

This excerpt is from a Q&A session at a silent retreat in May 2021.
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We are accepting applications for 2 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

How to Celebrate Success Without Ego - Q&A with Soryu Forall

In striving for our aspirations, we may be held back by damage to our self-trust in the past due to not following through on commitments. This can happen even to a highly skilled practitioner. Someone like that, a long-time MAPLE resident, asked Soryu what to do about it. His answer revealed that while such mistakes have serious consequences—perhaps more than we know—there is a simple principle for restoring integrity.  

This excerpt is from a Q&A session at a silent retreat in May 2021.
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We are accepting applications for 2 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

What to Do If I Don't Trust Myself? - Q&A with Soryu Forall

Do you find that you tend to fall asleep if you don't keep yourself alert with things like coffee or constant activities? 

This is common for us who live in the modern world. While solutions usually include getting more sleep—or more coffee, it may also have to do with how we engage with our lives. Soryu Forall provides guidance on how cultivating the elements of mindfulness—clarity, concentration and equanimity—can help.

This excerpt is from a Q&A session at a silent retreat in June 2021.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

How Not To Sleep Through Life - Q&A with Soryu Forall

While celebrating the Buddha's attainment of full liberation, it's helpful for our spiritual paths to recount the trials and tribulations he had encountered on his. It's helpful for us to remember that he was a real person like us.

This is part of a talk that was given at a silent retreat in May 2019. This is a time for the MAPLE community to focus exclusively on awakening.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

Three Stories from the Buddha's Path - Soryu Forall

One of our all-time favorite parts of a talk by Soryu Forall. He draws inspiration from his love of pie to offer teachings on how belief systems such as religions and ideologies function that may be delightfully unexpected. 

This is part of a talk that was given at a silent retreat in February 2020. This is a time for the MAPLE community to focus exclusively on awakening.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

What Pie Can Teach Us About Spirituality - Soryu Forall

There is so much knowledge to learn in both the material realm and the spiritual realm, that it can be easy to get lost there. Even Kyōgen, one of the great Chinese Zen (aka Chan) masters, had trouble with this earlier on his path. Fortunately, he also had a great master for his teacher, Isan, who helped him find his way back—by refusing to answer questions for him. 

This is part of a talk that was given at a silent retreat in November 2020. This is a time for the MAPLE community to focus exclusively on awakening.

Corrections for the Cantonese pronunciations (in this system, 'j' is pronounced like 'y'):
- Kyōgen Chikan - hoeng1 jim4 zi3 haan4 香嚴智閒
- Isan Reiyū - gwai1 saan3 lin4 jau6 溈山靈祐
- Hyakujō Ekai - baak3 zoeng6 waai4 hoi2 百丈懷海
- Nanyō Echū - naam4 joeng4 wai6 zung1 南陽慧忠
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
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The Answers Are Not Out There - Soryu Forall

Through a personal story involving a challenge to eat a dozen donuts, Soryu Forall shows how the stories we tell and the ways we talk to ourselves have an enormous impact on how we live. 

This is part of a talk that was given at a silent retreat in February 2019. This is a time for the MAPLE community to focus exclusively on awakening.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

We Live the Stories We Tell - Soryu Forall

How can we keep doing all this inner work that can be so challenging and confronting? Soryu Forall offers guidance and inspiration from the life of the great Chinese Zen master, Seppō (aka Xuefeng in Chinese), who was also one of the most hopeless cases in Zen history. 

This is part of a talk that was given at a silent retreat in December 2019. This is a time for the MAPLE community to focus exclusively on awakening.
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The Monastic Academy is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
If you're interested in learning more, go to our website monasticacademy.org

We are accepting applications for 2-3 month-long apprenticeships. The training will provide you opportunities to dive deeply into mindfulness practice in community, working, and dedicated sitting periods. The apprenticeship is FREE with room and board provided.
Learn more here: www.monasticacademy.org/apprentice

All You Need Is To Not Give Up - Soryu Forall

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