Stoep Zen

This guided meditation follows on from the dharma talk on the true power of Zazen.

In this talk, Antony Osho looks at the real nature of zazen as well as the kind of teachings and instructions that support it.

Here Antony Osho talks about how we limit the path according to our own image; how the Way remains wide despite our tendency to narrow it down; and how we need to set a deep direction in our practice that includes both our self-projects and the infinite breadth of the Way.

We spend so much energy on being useful, we forget the beauty of uselessness and the wonder of going beyond both.

Zen as a response to suffering in a world of emptiness and a poem in memory of Archbishop Tutu. 

In  this talk, Antony Osho looks at the Taoist inspiration behind Ch’an and  Zen and asks whether it may point towards a practice that is  particularly at home in southern Africa.

In  this talk, Antony Osho looks at the aliveness that arises naturally  when we open ourselves to grief, and what this means for our Zen  practice.

When  we embrace every part of our experience, we have a chance to find a wider perspective and, in so doing, to step into a life of intimacy from  which wisdom and compassion can arise naturally.

This talk looks at layperson Vimalakirti’s ‘I am sick because the world  is sick’ and what this gesture offers those living a non-monastic life.

An exploration of the movement in our lives from impasse into the light.

After a week of riots and violence in South Africa, the nation realised that its heart had been broken. This is a Dharma talk about those events.

This talk looks at koan 43 of the Blue Cliff Record (Dongshan’s Hot and Cold) and the practice of Zazen as traditional Zen practices that enable us to meet our world as it is.

This talk is an introduction to the Stoep Zen lineage and practice style at Poplar Grove Zendo as seen through the lens of the traditional Three Refuges of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.