<p>A dharma talk by Richard von Sturmer, exploring the teaching and poetry of grass and weeds, from Zen to Walt Whitman.</p>

A dharma talk by Richard von Sturmer, exploring the teaching and poetry of grass and weeds, from Zen to Walt Whitman.

2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds (Richard von Sturmer)

Sensei Richard von Sturmer has a long history in Zen: from 1993 to 2003 he lived and worked at the Rochester Zen Center, a Buddhist community in upstate New York, then in 2004, back in New Zealand, he co-founded the Auckland Zen Centre along with Roshi Amala Wrightson. In 2024 he was sanctioned as a Zen teacher. He has given many talks at the Centre, and some of them are collected here. Richard-sensei is also a writer and poet. Seven collections of his writing have been published including: A Network of Dissolving Threads (1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (2005), Book of Equanimity Verses (2013), This Explains Everything (2016), Postcard Stories (2019), Resonating Distances (2022) and Walking With Rocks, Dreaming With Rivers : My Year In The Waikato (2023).

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2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds (Richard von Sturmer)

2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds (Richard von Sturmer)