AZC Weekly talks

AZC Weekly talks

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AZC Weekly talks episodes

  • 2022-01-11 Harada Tangen-roshi Part 4: Life and Teachings

    The fourth of seven talks given by Roshi Amala Wrightson at the 2022 Auckland Zen Centre summer sesshin.

    Tangen-roshi's vow to become like a chair.

    Sources: Awaken to the True Self, https://www.rzc.org/news/awaken-to-the-true-self/

    Automated transcript

    https://otter.ai/u/Eena83iPhtMxX51ZvDDuNUF_wZw

    51 min
  • 2022-01-09 Harada Tangen-roshi Part 2: Life and Teachings

    The second in a series of seven talks given by Roshi Amala Wrightson during the 2022 Auckland Zen Centre summer sesshin.

    This talk covers training at Bukkoku-ji and the emphasis on inner discipline.

    Sources: Zen Bow article by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, Summer 2018: https://www.rzc.org/news/harada-tangen-roshi/

    Automated transcript

    https://otter.ai/u/xg5fXejE74VUxln2KXBgmeMbuAg

    49 min
  • 2022-01-08 Harada Tangen-roshi Part 1: Life and Teachings

    The first in a series of seven talks given by Roshi Amala Wrightson during the 2022 Auckland Zen Centre summer sesshin.

    Tangen-roshi's close calls with death reinforce his sense of being held and protected by a benevolent universe.

    Sources: Zen Bow article by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, Summer 2018: https://www.rzc.org/news/harada-tangen-roshi/

    Automated transcript

    https://otter.ai/u/Q-ET4mPpMBpQ8GP3K4euIdNd1rI

    55 min
  • 2021-11-09 Cultivating right attitudes for practice and life 1

    Roshi Amala Wrightson explores contentment from a Zen perspective.

    Contentment, usually rather dryly called "non-grasping" in Zen, is an essential attitude in our practice life; an antidote to restlessness and a middle way between attachment and aversion.

    Main Text(s): Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Guo Gu

    Automated transcript

    https://otter.ai/u/6Lx_X8osLv5XZThPlgOk4S1Y_iA

    56 min
  • 2021-10-19 The power of chanting and bowing
    Wholehearted chanting can be a bridge that connects us with loved ones and with more-than-human realms. It can also take us into a present which contains both past and future, the living and the dead.
    Sources: Article "Why do we recite sutras?" by Hakuun Yasutani-roshi, and Zen Wisdom, Knowing and Doing by Master Sheng Yen
    Automated transcript
    https://otter.ai/u/R-h9EqrVfOhU6vYYlGbqA6Llqzc
    58 min
  • 2021-10-03 Arrogance
    Exploring how the self-centred emotion of arrogance (or pride) causes pain in ourselves and others, plus a glimpse of what it feels like to be on the other end of arrogance.
    Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/G62yeu0YvzLI9DH2UabB-HRgMXk
    Text: Light Comes Through by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
    58 min
  • 21-09-14 Learning from Te Ao Māori
    Talk given in recognition of Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori). Some background on our 4 vows translation, Ko ngā Oati e Whā. Beginning to explore key concepts of the Maōri worldview, with a look at whanaungatanga, or right relationship.
    Text(s): In right relationship -- whanaungatanga by Haylee Kiroi in Climate Aotearoa ed. Helen Clark
    1 hr 5 min
  • 2021-08-31 Working with our suffering
    In lockdown again, many of the ways that we "get a break from ourselves" are no longer possible. So how do we work with painful habits of thinking and feeling?
    Automated transcript
    https://otter.ai/u/g9eity7un76x1QQGlup3GyICboM
    54 min

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In this podcast you can find almost all the talks given at the Auckland Zen Centre, back to 2016. Most talks are by Roshi Amala Wrightson, but there are also talks from Sensei Richard von Sturmer and…

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