AZC Weekly talks

Daily life practice and "What is this and how did it get here?"

Sources: Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987

Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Painting legs on a snake

Sources:

Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987

Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Sesshin mind

Readings from Stephen Batchelor's Introduction to his translation of Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre.

Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre Part Two. In this teisho we concentrate on the verses themselves.

Sources: Verses from the Centre translated by Stephen Batchelor

The Unborn: Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei by Norman Waddell

Readings from Stephen Batchelor's Introduction to his translation of Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre. Nargajuna was an important Indian teacher and our 14th Zen Ancestor. Batchelor calls him "the poet of emptiness".

 Mostly biographical material

Sources: Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987

Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Teisho by Sensei Richard von Sturmer

Readings from the autobiography of Daiun Sogaku Harada-roshi, Roshi Kapleau's first teacher.

Individual consciousness, collective consciousness, universal consciousness.

Sources: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh, Rider London 2021, Canticle to the Cosmos video series by Brian Swimme.

We can learn to guard our mind and nurture our aspiration by being careful of what we consume.

Source: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh, Rider London 2021.

What we consume shapes us -- not just the food and drink that nourish our physical body but also the impressions of our five senses, what we long for, and what we think. We can learn to be mindful of our mind/body and be careful about what we consume.

Sources: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh, Rider London 2021;The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme, Bear and Company Publishing, Santa Fe New Mexico 1984.