Teisho: Hakuin Zenji’s Song of Zazen, Rohatsu Part 1 of 5
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If we have not been able to make a relationship with our suffering, frustration and neuroses, the feasibility of transmission is … extremely remote. We have not even made a
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Listening to the Buddha: how greed, ill-will and delusion are poisoning our institutions, Part 1 of 3
All institutions are the mirror image of the motivations that make them work. So when politics and economics are based on the worst aspects of human nature, the inevitable result are
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Withered Trees
Great Master Jisai of Tōsuzan in Jōshū, the story goes, is asked by a monk, Among withered trees does the moaning of dragons exist or not? The master says, I
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Teisho: Zen’s Core
Description: In this illuminating teisho, Henry explores the core of Zen training, using stories about Master Hyakujo and Winston Churchill, along with quotes from Muso Soseki and Master Sheng-Yen, to elucidate
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Teisho: Importance of Courage
Description: In this eloquent teisho, Henry talks about the necessity of courage in Zen practice. When we sit, we divest ourselves of our habitual views, which block us from seeing clearly
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Blue Mountain
Tozan, a famous Zen master, said: “The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud. The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain. All day long they
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Teisho: Case 19 Book of Equanimity, Unmon’s Mt Sumeru, Part 3 of 3
Description: Henry finishes his discussion of Unmon’s Mt Sumeru. In addition to cutting through our thought streams, Unmon’s powerful short phrase teachings also “ride the waves and sail the swells.” Henry
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David R. Loy: Why We Love War
…the most important struggle is a spiritual one between ignorance and delusion, on the one side, and liberating wisdom on the other. And seeing the world primarily as a war
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When a Man is in a Boat at Sea
When a man is in a boat at sea and looks back at the shoreline, it may seem to him as though the shore is moving. But when he fixes
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Teisho: Case 19 Book of Equanimity, Unmon’s Mt. Sumeru, Part 2 of 3
Description: Henry continues his discussion of Unmon’s koan on Mt Sumeru. We learn more about Master Unmon, also known as Cloud Gate, founder of one of the five houses of zen.
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