Category: mind

NonViolent Communication, NVC – October 31, 2018

Nonviolent Communication from Dharma Talk given on 6/12/2011 Good morning, thank you all for coming to the temple this morning and joining together to practice the Lotus Sutra. Today and every Sunday through the entire summer (2011), 13 weeks, I will be devoting my Dharma talk time to teaching and leading learning in Nonviolent Communication. These will be structured sessions that will involve various activities and take-away practices. On some Sundays we will do a very…

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NVC Dharma Talk – Needs – October 28, 2018

Today our Dharma talk continues our study of Nonviolent Communication.  The focus for the study today is on needs and our ability to know and communicate our needs.  Needs is the third part of the four parts of the NVC formula; Observation, Feelings, Needs, Request (OFNR).   Here is the Needs list used during the video Subscribe to my blog post newsletter [amazon_link asins=’1979530815,B00HTOFM44,1975689763,147834198X,0692257470,1979814023,1511592907,1726325520,1508534780,1492886041′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’ryusho0a-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b00ab74-b021-11e8-94bb-8388b7973e5c’]

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NVC Dharma Talk – Feelings – October 21, 2018 (Includes a Spanish Feelings Word List)

Today the Dharma talk focuses on Feelings, the second part of the four part formula used in Nonviolent Communication, NVC.   Due to a connectivity issue the transmission was interrupted about 13 minutes into the Dharma talk.  Because of this the video is broken into two parts, well mostly it’s because I lack the technical expertise to splice them together into one whole video.  On this page you will also find several feeling words lists, even…

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Daily Service – October 3, 2018

At its core, our daily practice is about participating in the events that take place in the Lotus Sutra.  We are in one sense recreating the actual Sutra in our daily practice, even if it is only an abbreviated form.  The heart of our daily service is the recitation of some chapters from the Sutra itself.  So it is easy to see that connection to the Sutra, but what about some of the other things…

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