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Dharmatalk (Guest): Ruben Habito: Case 3, Blue Cliff Record: Master Ba is Ill

“… See with the eyes of the heart …” ~ Ruben Habito Description: This talk was given by Ruben Habito, founding teacher of Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, TX, on

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Dharmatalk: Love is the Teaching

It is empty, nameless, all-embracing love Description: The Blue Cliff Record is a classic collection of koans compiled by Setcho (Xuedou) in 1028. Each koan has a corresponding verse composed

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Teisho: Case 65, Blue Cliff Record: A Non-Buddhist Questions Buddha

“… Buddha is showing us who he is by remaining still, showing us the core of our own heart …” Description: The first part of this talk centers on Case

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Message from Henry: Setcho’s verse to Case 2 of the Blue Cliff Record, Part 2

In a way, our whole life as we’ve known it has been one great distraction… Click here if you missed part 1 of Setcho’s Verse to Case 2 of the

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Message from Henry: Setcho’s verse to Case 2 of the Blue Cliff Record, Part 1

Setcho’s verse to Case 2 of the Blue Cliff Record says… In one there are many kinds. In two there are not two. The Prajna Paramita Sutra says: Prajna Paramita’s

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Teisho: Case 58, Book of Equanimity: ” ‘Getting Despised’ in the Diamond Sutra”

“…any notion of recognition or good reputation becomes unnecessary …” Description: The center of this talk is the koan, “‘Getting Despised’ in the Diamond Sutra,” from the Book of Equanimity. It

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Teisho: Shukman: Case 1, The Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma’s “Clear and Void”

“… Sitting is how we embody zen … It is “the complete continuation of the practice of Bodhidharma in his cave … it is one, unbroken fact.” Description: The focus

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Teisho: Sesshin Day 3, Case 4 of The Blue Cliff Record

“The alchemy of slow-cooking—that’s also zen…” “When the mind is quiet, we notice so much more…the things we encounter are the teachings.” Description: This teisho is the third of the Spring

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The Meeting: Zen’s Challenge to An Individual, Interior Spirituality, Part 3 of 7

In the “four marks of Zen” attributed to the great ancestor Bodhidharma, Zen is identified as a “mind-to-mind transmission outside scripture.” Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Meeting

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Foreword to Flowing Bridge: The Miscellaneous Koans, by Ruben Habito, Part 3 of 3

The three fruits of Zen, in other words, are all about becoming truly human, in all that this entails. Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Miscellaneous Koans There

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For whom do the blossoms bloom in the spring?

This Japanese Tea Ceremony scroll – is attributed to Keishu Masanori (Rinzai – Zuiho-ji -Daitoku-ji) and it reads: 百花春至為誰開 Hyakka Haruitatte Taga Tameni Hiraku “For whom do the blossoms bloom

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Teisho: Summer Sesshin: Why sit with Mu? (Part 3 of 5)

“Our ‘sensorium’ composes the totality of our world; to believe there is anything else is an error, according to Buddha.” “… sitting with mu is ‘a set up to bring

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Message from Henry: Dharma Drops

Stop and see, Buddha said. Stop means be still and quiet. See means see what is going on, within and without, in the totality… We’re human, our hearts are not

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Speck of Snow on a Red Hot Oven

The Calligraphy on the scroll reads: 紅爐一点雪 Koro Itten No Yuki This is one letter shorter version of 紅爐上一点雪 (Korojo Itten No Yuki), “a speck of snow on a

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