Tag Archives: zen
Chasing after Awakened Mind
What is meditation? What are you carrying around with you?
You are the Cosmos
Feeling small? The Samadhi of the perfume of the universe.
The Fundamental Issue of Life
Who is it that sees, hears, tastes, smells, feels, thinks?
The Interconnected Patterns of Experience
What are you? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link…
Rising Above, Being Selfless
How would you like to be involved without being involved? Rising above the din. Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link…
The Tathagatas Jewel of Wisdom
The Boddhisattva path. Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link…
Let the Lotus Bloom Naturely
Dan Gulliford introduces us to the influence of Zen Master Hakuin. Dan Gulliford and Will Rauschenberger co-host this talk from Sarasota, FL, and Asheville, NC.
Genjokoan and the four noble truths
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 […]