I have some favorite writings that I return to over and over again. One of them is by Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen in Japan, who is known for his great prose and his flowing, inspirational expressions of the Dharma. Genjokoan’s first four lines remind me of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths. GENJŌKŌAN (1) When all dharmas are the Buddha Dharma, there is delusion and realization, practice, life and death, buddhas and living beings. (2) When the ten thousand […]
Don’t Ignore It!
Ignoring, denying, or pushing away anything we consider uncomfortable is why we are uncomfortable!
Just Be, No Great Shakes, Everything Just As It Is
The ups and downs of the seesaw of karma.
Sudden and Gradual Schools of Zen
Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will Rauschenberger in discussing Kongan practice, Linages, and the Lotus Sutra Parable of the Burning House.
Dharma and Karma, What’s In Your Backpack?
In this podcast, visiting Zen Master Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will (Hea An) Rauschenberger at our Sunday Session on May 4th, 2025. The talk includes chanting the Heart Sutra in the beginning (you may skip it around 4 minutes in).
The Precepts, Actuality and Flowering of Being
Strip away who we think we are and we can experience the actuality of who we are.
This Mind Alone is Buddha
Zen is solving the problem of Birth and Death.
Why do we practice Zazen, doing no-thing?
If we already have Buddha Nature, why do we meditate?
This Mind Alone, There Is No Other Mind
Taking responsibility for your life and liberation are not different.
News – Chong An Sunim is coming to OZS in May
‘Ignorance, intelligence, and insight – how to obtain who we are and find our true path.’ A talk with Chong An Sunim on Thursday evening, May 8, 2025, followed on Friday, May 9th, 2025, with a Zen Day at OZS. Thursday’s Dharma Talk will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Friday’s Zen Day will be from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. OZS is located at 4690 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, Florida 34232. The suggested donation for the talk is $10.00 […]