21st century Buddhism: Facing Institutionalized Suffering, Interview with David Loy
Meditations
Karma IS created by our motivations. We will be posting sections of an interview Matthias Luckwaldt had with David Loy over the next few weeks. In this first part, David talks about
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Teisho: Ben Connelly: Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara
Description: In this talk,Ben Connelly, a Soto Zen teacher from the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage, discusses his book, Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara. Vasubandhu was a fifth century Indian
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Teisho: Case 57, Book of Equanimity: Gon’yô’s One Thing
“… when you experience sight and sound with your whole body and mind, you are swallowed whole, so to speak. We are swallowed by the moment.” Description: The focus of this
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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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Dogen: Portrait
If you take this portrait of me to be real,
Then what am I, really?
But why hang it there,
If not to anticipate people getting to know me?
Looking
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Teisho: Sutra: “On Opening the Dharma”
Description: This talk focuses on the sutra, “On Opening the Dharma,” which reads: The Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle, Is rarely encountered Even in hundreds of thousands of millions of ages;
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Teisho: Tokusan and Consciousness
We are born into this life, and we can decide that we know certain things about it. We can become convinced that we know enough… and therefore stop noticing that
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Teisho: Case 53, Book of Equanimity: Obaku’s Drinkers
Case 52: Ôbaku instructed the assembly and said, “You are all drinkers of lees [dregs]. If you continue to go on your Way like this, when will you have your ‘today’?
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Is this Meditation?
Don’t let awareness be totally absorbed by the content of the mind …. Be aware of the space around thinking, feeling, sensing… Is this ‘meditation”? Photo and poem by Rosa
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Teisho: Times of Great Difficulty
“Hatred never decreased hatred.“ ~ Henry Shukman Description: Henry offers calming clarity in this post election teisho. He begins by stating that Zen was forged in times of great difficulty and
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