Teisho: Bodhidharma’s Zen Part 2 of 2
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Description: Henry continues his exploration of Bodhidharma’s core teaching, Outline of Practice, the Two Gates. He opens the teisho with an inspiring quote from the novel Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
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Interview by Sweeping Zen with David Loy, Part 1
Yes, all form is empty, but emptiness is always taking form. Sweeping Zen: This question gets asked a lot, but, how did you first get started with Zen practice? David
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Teisho: Book of Equanimity Case 21, Ungan Sweeps the Ground
Description: Case 21, Book of Equanimity: Ungan Sweeps the Ground When Ungan was sweeping the ground, Dôgo said, “You are working hard, aren’t you.” Ungan said, “You should know there is one
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The Zen Oxherding Pictures: Overview, by Ruben Habito
We look at the ten oxherding pictures as a mirror that can tell us where we are in our practice. “The Ten Oxherding Pictures” is a set of ten calligraphic
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Teisho: Case 28, Book of Equanimity: Gokoku’s “Three Disgraces” Part 1 of 2
“This whole being called me is just a hole.” Description: Case 28: Book of Equanimity: Gokoku’s “Three Disgraces” Part 1 of 2 A monk asked Gokoku, “How about when a crane
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Ten thousand miles – No clouds, Ten thousand miles – Sky
“萬⾥ 無雲 万里天 Banri Kumo Nashi, Banri no Ten”. This is the second line of a couplet which follows the first one… “千江有水千江月 Senko Ni Mizu Ari Senko No Tsuki”.
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The Fire Boy Comes Seeking Fire, Dogen
Zen Master Xuanze had affinity with Fayan. Once Xuanze was appointed as director in the assembly of Fayan. One day Fayan said, “How many years have you been here?” Xuanze
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Teisho: Hakuin Zenji’s Song of Zazen, Rohatsu Part 1 of 5
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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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: 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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