Recording Category: Dharma Talks
Jyoshin talks about Bodhisattva action.
What if we don’t have to take sides?
Genko relates a seemingly trivial experience with oryoki and explores issues around form, habit energy, ritual, and resistance.
The burning house represents the suffering of phenomenal life. Why is it so hard for us to find the door and escape? Perhaps we don’t really need to get out.
A few weeks ago, Jiko spoke about faith. In this talk, Ko’in explores more aspects of faith from different perspectives.
Kakumyo discusses a Chinese text that describes how to practice with others, the Kikyomon. Keizan and Dogen drew from this text to create their monastic regulations for Sojiji and Eiheiji, respectively.
We approach and experience faith, practice, and understanding in several fundamental ways over time. This talk looks at the meaning of Buddhist faith and our stages of experience.
In this tale from the Middle Length Discourses, Buddha meets a notorious figure on the road. His great compassion and equanimous presence allows them to have a meaningful exchange. Leaving behind his destructive path, Angulimala turns his life upside down and follows the Buddha. In this talk Flying Fish explores several aspects of our spiritual… Read more »
Kakumyo references the Samaññaphala Sutta to talk about benefits of practice.
How many ways are there to work with what arises in the heart/mind of meditation? Thoughts and feelings may not be two, but they are not one either. It may be helpful to explore at least one approach to feelings that differs from that of thoughts.
Kakumyo speaks of Impending Kalpa Fire, the way that resistance to our experience causes suffering, and the Three Terrible Oaths.
Genko explores aspects of Sangha, and talks about how it fits into the Three Treasures, or Three Refuges.
Kakumyo speaks about fixed views and how they can be an obstacle to practice.