Springs Mountain Sangha presents:
“The Radiance of the Dark”: A short film on Joan Sutherland’s Zen vision of awakening, from Cloud Dragon: The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works
Sutherland Roshi presents awakening as a process that embraces endarkenment, as well as enlightenment. This brief film invites you into a larger, more inclusive way of seeing and experiencing your own awakening.
Quotes from the film:
“There is this great dreaming going on underneath everything all the time, and every individual being and thing in the world and in the universe is contributing to that vast, communal dreaming…”
or
“Another way that endarkenment is expressed through our lives is our willingness to get our hearts broken and to stay broken, in the understanding that the broken heart is open and the broken heart is connected… So we press our own individual broken hearts up against the great broken heart of the world, and then we ask, ‘What’s next?’”
Where: Penrose Library, Carnegie Reading Room, 20 N. Cascade
When: Sunday, June 21st, 3:00 PM
Cost: No Charge
Sarah Bender, Sensei, a teacher in Joan Sutherland’s Open Source Tradition and Springs Mountain Sangha Resident Teacher, will be present to participate in discussion following the film.
Cloud Dragon : The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works was created to ensure that, with Joan Sutherland, Roshi’s retirement from active teaching, her groundbreaking and powerful body of work will become increasingly available to her students and to the wider world. The Radiance of the Dark is a beautiful introduction to the core elements of Sutherland Roshi’s teaching.
Joan Sutherland Dharma Works can be reached on the web via: http://joansutherlanddharmaworks.org/