Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 6 Description: What is my light? Why can’t I see it? How do I stop objectifying myself and those around me? Source(s): The Golden Age of Zen by John C.H. Wu, Doubleday 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post Hekiganroku #86, Ummon’s “Everybody has their own light” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 5 Description: Zen practice is experiential — we each have to find our way to the truth, giving up our egoistic striving. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 5 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 4 Description: Pride in our good deeds reinforces our sense of self-importance, and therefore works at cross-purposes to our efforts to free ourselves from the delusion of separation. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 4 appeared first on Ro...

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 3 Description: A master once said, “The taste of Zen is pain in the knees.” How do we work creatively with pain and weariness in these early days of sesshin? Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 2 Description: Practising right where we are. Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

November 2022 Sesshin , Day 1 Description: Biographical material Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

How Zen practice deconstructs the self while the Dharma nourishes the Self, with a commentary on the koan “Linji’s Blind Donkey”. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Destruction and Aspiration appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 6 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Blue Cliff Record #53, “Hyakujo and the Wild Duck” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 5 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 4 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 3 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Transcript The post Zen Master Bassui from The Three Pillars of Zen appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 2 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Foyan from Instant Zen: Waking Up In the Present (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 Sesshin , Day 1 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Foyan from Instant Zen: Waking Up In the Present (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

A look at the sanctioning next month of Donna Kowal and at my stepping aside, featuring Case 40 in the Mumonkan, “Kicking Over the Water Bottle.” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Transcript The post Zen Teacher Authorization appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 2-Day Sesshin , Day 2 Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.   Automated Transcript The post Faith: Passages from “And There Was Light” by Jacques Lusseran appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

September 2022 2-Day Sesshin , Day 1 Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.   Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Empty Cloud (Xu Yun) followed by Q & A appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

By trying to wall off the inevitable pain we encounter, we make it hurt more and last longer. Acceptance and practice show us another way. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.   Automated Transcript The post OK with Things as They Are appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

From December 1979 Sesshin, Day 7. Played on Founder’s Day – August 14, 2022. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau.   Automated Transcript The post Teisho by Roshi Kapleau: Hekiganroku #38, “Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 6 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 5 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 4 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 3 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 2 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

July 2022 Sesshin , Day 1 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .

The images revealed by the Webb Telescope will vastly extend our knowledge. Wisdom, however, grows from looking inward. Who is seeing that projection of the mind we call the universe? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.   Automated Transcript The post Seeing Into Space, Seeing Into Mind appeared first on Rochester Zen Center .