What can we rely on in times like these?
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The Relative and Absolute, is it different or not?
A OZS sangha member asks: “Is there, or is there not, a balance between our absolute expansive selves and our relative selves that outflow into the world?”
The Wisdom Teachings Of Zen
In a world that often feels divisive and turbulent, how does practicing Zen help us see our true nature and live with clarity, compassion, and peace? Join us for a special evening of illuminating insight as a renowned Zen Buddhist monk, Zen Master Chong An Sunim, shares his years of experience. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a master deeply rooted in the tradition of Zen. Chong An Sunim will be joined by Abbot Will Rauschenberger, Dharma […]
Illuminating Dangerous Times
Don’t believe anything you think…
Ordinary Zen Practice
Getting to know ourselves.
Hauling Away the Shit Pail
“It is foolish to use the verb “to appear” in describing the manifestation of the buddhas. We simply use the expression “a buddha appears in the world” to make it easier for sentient beings to understand. “Picks up a shit pail and hauls away all the shit of conceptual proliferation” means that a buddha removes all traces of various types of ignorant thoughts. If you do not depart from the original true reality of the middle way, then whatever words […]
Our Burdens Are Empty
Realizing emptiness allows us the freedom to put down what burdens us.
Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower
Not Two!
The Medicine of Together Action
Buddha’s prescriptions or remedies, also called expedient means, as they apply to Zendo etiquette.
Huangbo’s Transmission of Mind – Parts 1 to 9
For there is nowhere that is outside the Buddha-Mind I invite you to join me in reading and reflecting on the teachings of Haungbo. This series will use either ” Zen Roots – The First Thousand Years “ by Red Pine or ” The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind “ translated by John Blofeld. If you are using the John Blofeld translation you will notice his use of the word ” Void ” as in ” it is […]