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.
Podcasts: Note To Self
Podcasts of the Dharma Talks at Ordinary Zen Sangha.
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.”
The Golden Fish Sees The Hook
Taking the bait, you get cooked and eaten.
Imagined Reality
Don’t believe everything you think. Don’t believe what you are programmed to think. Imaged reality is created by projecting our habitual thinking.
The Middle Way
Liberation is not a ticket to somewhere else. impermanence, emptiness, no-self…
Dependent Origination
This week we are birthing the Buddha, as we contemplate dependent origination and no-self.
Expounding the Diamond Sutra
“The sun, the stars, the trees, the rivers are already teaching us the Diamond Sutra” -208 Kongans – Original Light Temple