The third in a series of three dharma talks by Richard von Sturmer. In this talk Richard takes up Dōgen’s writings on nature as well as exploring the wilderness poetry of Tang Dynasty China.Texts used:Our National Parks by John MuirDogen's 'Mountains and Waters Sutra' from Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master DogenClassic Chinese Poetry translated and edited by David Hinton

The third in a series of three dharma talks by Richard von Sturmer. In this talk Richard takes up Dōgen’s writings on nature as well as exploring the wilderness poetry of Tang Dynasty China. Texts used: Our National Parks by John Muir Dogen's 'Mountains and Waters Sutra' from Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen Classic Chinese Poetry translated and edited by David Hinton

2022-11-08 Zen and Nature Part Three (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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2022-11-08 Zen and Nature Part Three (Richard von Sturmer)

2022-11-08 Zen and Nature Part Three (Richard von Sturmer)