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Think Not-thinking

Episode Description: Henry shares some thoughts on Yakusan’s famous dialogue on meditation. A monk asks, “What do you think about when you meditate?” Yakusan answers, “Think not-thinking.” Henry relates this to

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Message from Henry: Five Skandhas

When like and dislike do not arise, the Way stands clear. – from the Shinjinmei These are the five “skandhas” or “aggregates”: matter or form (rupa), sensation or feeling (vedana),

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Message from Henry: A Little Reflection on Zen History

Dogen said, “Practice is enlightenment; enlightenment is practice.” Tahui said: “There never was any delusion, nor any realization.” These statements are completely clear, yet we shouldn’t mistake what they mean.

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Mountains and Oceans

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right

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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 2 of 3

How may I live my life realizing that the wounded world is my own true self, I am that, crying out in pain? Click to read Listening to the Voices

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The Ecological Crisis: Can Buddhism Help? Reflection by David Loy

“We are here to overcome the illusion of our separation.” — Thich Nhat Hanh “I came to realize Weed seed puff clearly that mind is nothing other than mountains

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Listening to the Voices of the Great Wide Earth, Part 1 of 3

“I came to realize clearly that the mind is not other than mountains, rivers, the great wide earth, sun, moon, stars”. -Dogen This is a passage from thirteenth century Zen

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The Unfamiliar Familiar: Part 6 of 6

…the koan’s purpose is to see things from buddhanature’s point of view, as it were, rather than instill an idea about it from our own point of view. Click here

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Sanbo (Three Treasures) Zen: Part 3 of 3

Joan Rieck presented this piece at an international conference held at Tiantong Monastery in China in the Fall of 2014 – the very temple where Dogen had his great enlightenment

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Sanbo (Three Treasures) Zen: Part 2 of 3

Joan Rieck presented this piece at an international conference held at Tiantong Monastery in China in the Fall of 2014 – the very temple where Dogen had his great enlightenment

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Sanbo (Three Treasures) Zen: Part 1 of 3

Joan Rieck Roshi presented this piece at an international conference held at Tiantong Monastery in China in the Fall of 2014 – the very temple where Dogen had his

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Blue Cliff Record 69, Nansen Draws a Circle

Episode Description: This talk delineates the classic koan, Nansen Draws a Circle, Blue Cliff Record Case 69. Roshi Henry describes the brilliant craziness of this koan and draws on wisdom

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The Art of Being Wrong: Part 1 of 4

Nearly always, in great literature, there is some kind of turning point in a narrative arc which is also a turning back—something like Dogen’s “backward step that shines the light

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Rohatsu Sesshin 2014, Day 1 of 4

In this first teisho of the sesshin, Henry introduces Dogen’s fascicle on Continuous Practice, and starts to explore what Dogen meant by that term. The talk includes poetry by Yeats,

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