Jonathan Prescott offers a 3-step process for spring-cleaning our hearts so that we can restore relationships that have soured over the long pandemic winter. This talk was offered to the Guemes Island Community Church

A Buddhist View of Communion

Mar 4th, 2024 23m 56s

The Buddha taught that ignorance is the root of suffering. To ignore means to turn away from the truth. While speaking to the Guemes Island Community Church, Jonathan Prescott shows how Buddhism and Christianity both point towards overcoming ig

Hospitality

Jan 21st, 2024 23m 6s

Jonathan Prescott offered this exploration of hospitality to the Guemes Island Community Church. Jonathan uses poems and stories to reveal deeper aspects of hospitality, including the call to welcome those we don't agree with.

Zen Simplified

Jan 17th, 2024 24m 36s

In Jonathan Prescott's final talk to the Anacortes Mindfulness Community, he offers a concise map of Zen practice, beginning with the establishment of happiness and ending with the depth of Zazen.

Grab An Ordinary Life

Dec 21st, 2023 13m 27s

13 centuries ago, Zen Master Deshan encouraged us to grab the life of an ordinary person. What did he mean? Jonathan Prescott shows how our ordinary lives can be our awakened lives. We just need to stop.

Practicing With Grief

Dec 3rd, 2023 47m 12s

In this talk, Jonathan Prescott helps us understand and feel our grief. He describes common types of grief and offers ways to practice so that we can transform our losses into compassion.

The Price Of Awakening

Nov 29th, 2023 32m 9s

Deep within all of us is a golden Buddha. It's been there all along, radiating goodness and wisdom. But because we feel vulnerable in this challenging world, we've covered this precious gift with a 'self' that traps us in a cycle of suffering.

Suffering Is The Key To Liberation

Oct 19th, 2023 47m 5s

Suffering and liberation are intimately bound together on a continuum of interbeing, intersection, and interpenetration. Liberation is the birthright of our Buddha nature, available to us in every moment. Shining the light within we touch our o

Compassionate Trauma Informed Practice

Oct 18th, 2023 44m 44s

We often come to meditation practice with an aspiration to alleviate and transform our pain.Yet for many, sitting in silence with awareness of the breath may actually be quite stimulating rather than calming.In this talk, Monica Kingsbury wil

The War Inside Us

Oct 18th, 2023 43m 52s

We all suffer. And we suffer because we create a war between how things are and how we want them to be. Jonathan Prescott shares the story of his own suffering and how the Buddha's example inspired him to end the war with his life.This is t

Take Down Your Wall

Oct 18th, 2023 47m 37s

In an effort to protect ourselves, we wall ourselves off. But this very wall becomes the source of our suffering.In this talk from Radiant Light Zen's Interbeing of Suffering and Liberation retreat, Jonathan Prescott offers practices to liber

Set Your Heart On Freedom

Oct 18th, 2023 34m 50s

We’re not alone in our suffering and are not the first to yearn for liberation. Discover a Zen elder who teaches us how to work with suffering as a path to freedom. This talk was offered by Karla Johnston during Radiant Light Zen's Suffering an

Practicing The Precepts

Sep 20th, 2023 26m 31s

Jonathan Prescott describes how the precepts arose from the Buddha's awakened mind. All these centuries later, the precepts still call us home to our own awakened minds.

Meet Life With Love

Aug 23rd, 2023 33m 14s

We spend our lives looking for love. But love has been in our hearts all along. Join Jonathan Prescott as he explores how you can feel the joy of meeting life with love.

Stardust

Jun 3rd, 2023 28m 17s

In this talk, Tim Motley takes a closer look at the true nature of our existence. We walk this path, each of us a collection of mostly empty atomic particles, pulsed out of a quasar, condensed into this time and space, with the extraordinarily

Flowers Beneath Snow

Apr 24th, 2023 24m 18s

Karla Johnston shares lessons of Spring in 50+ feet of Tahoe mega-snow: active patience and acceptance. Two questions are provided to deepen our practice.

MLS 3rd Anniversary Celebration

Mar 31st, 2023 1h 3m

Morning Light Sangha celebrates its 3rd anniversary. Join us as Jonathan Prescott shares MLS history, Michael Melancon describes our Zoomdo practice form, and the Sangha offers words about what MLS means in their lives.

Taking Refuge in Zen

Mar 8th, 2023 37m 42s

Jonathan Prescott describes our Zen practice forms and how we use them to unearth the freedom that lies just beneath our veneer of suffering.

Generosity

Feb 22nd, 2023 36m 5s

In this Dharma talk, Jonathan Prescott investigates generosity: How we begin by practicing generosity towards ourselves, then experiment with giving what we can while refraining from taking what isn’t offered. These practices show us our self-c

The Fundamental Point - Michael Melancon

Feb 17th, 2023 36m 35s

The point of all Dharma Teachings is that we can awaken and that such awakening is our birthright . . . . right here. right now. But how do we self-actualize our Buddha Nature?

Sutra History

Jan 18th, 2023 39m 26s

The Buddhist Sutras are gems offered by our spiritual ancestors. This talk explores the origins of Sutras from the Theravada and Mahayana traditions and how we can use them to wake up.

Zen Calm For Holdiay Chaos

Dec 21st, 2022 33m 56s

Ram Dass once said: "If you think you’re enlightened, try spending a week with your family."In this week’s Dharma talk, Jonathan Prescott explores how Zen can help you smile to troublesome Uncle Ned and enjoy your sister’s dry fruitcake. Happ

Embracing Our Shadow Buddhas

Dec 5th, 2022 38m 43s

Bright Buddhas show us how to be free. Shadow Buddhas show us how to suffer. In this talk, Jonathan Prescott offers a 3-step practice to help us embrace our Shadow Buddhas and turn them into transformative teachers.