10,000 years of birth and death are in this very instant.
Podcasts: Note To Self
Podcasts of the Dharma Talks at Ordinary Zen Sangha.
Embracing responsibility
8/22/2021- Dharma Talk Embracing responsibility naturally.
Il-Bung’s tea
The Dharma talk today starts with a Zen Masters poems from my days at the American Zen College. I sit quietly in the looking-for-ox room. A cool wind blows on my face from the open window. A bell rings across the dharma tower. A lamp quietly illuminates the Lotus platform.
The diamond that cuts through delusion
Dharma Talk – Sunday 08/01/2021 Freedom is not doing what you want, it is non-doing.
This is Zen
Abbot Will Rauschenberger’s Dharma Talk – 7/25/2021 Morality, meditation, and wisdom as defined by Hui-neng in the Platform Sutra. Feature Image – “The Five Buddhas” oil painting by Robert Dika.
Equanimity in Diversity
Guided by your original nature, your true face, everything is illuminated. With a reading from: ” The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng .” — Pine, Red.
Smoke on the Horizon, Summer Storms, Cardinal’s song
Dharma Talk from Sunday, July 11, 2021. Reaching beyond Labels, Form, and Perceptions.
Eat Cake
Dharma talk – Sunday, July 4, 2021. “Equanimity, and cake”
The Still Point
The great way is the still point permeating all movement. “Moonlight on water”
Linji’s Grandfatherly Advice
On this Fathers Day, 6/20/2021, Will reads from The Record of Linji (Linji Lu). Linji is the great grandfather of one of the schools of Zen (Chan) and has a message for us today. “Nowadays, he who studies buddhadharma must seek true insight. Gaining true insight, he is not affected by birth-and-death, but freely goes or stays. He needn’t seek the excellent— that which is excellent will come of itself.”