AZC Weekly talks

Coming-to-the-path talk by Adrian Croucher. How he came to be practicing Zen.

Dharma Talk by Hanya Gallagher. Discussion of the significance of the Eightfold Noble Path for our practice, focusing on the mental discipline aspects: Right View, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration. Grasping onto thoughts drives our suffering.

Dharma talk by Kathryn Argetsinger. Commenting on the movie "Seymour: An Introduction" by Ethan Hawke (2014). Parallels between musical practice and the practice of zazen. What is our practice? What are we practicing for?

What is Nibbana/Nirvana? Where is it? Is it an "it"?

Sublime abiding and non-abiding. Metta that flows naturally into no-mind and nibbana.

Main Text(s) quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki

http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm

The destructiveness of ill-will, towards others and towards oneself.

Texts quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm

Happiness by Matthieu Ricard.

Benevolence -- how to wish well. The actual instructions on metta bhavana.

Texts quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm

More on frugality. Guarding the six sense-doors and mastering oneself. Metta and service.

Texts quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm

A foundation of virtue is needed before we can meditate effectively. The precepts, or non-harm, as benevolence in action. A close look at the Sutta up to “Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.”

Main Text(s) quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki

http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm

Why we have introduced the Pali Karaniya Metta Sutta into our early morning chanting service in sesshin, and an introduction to the Sutta.

Main Text(s) quoted: Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Sn 1.8), translated from the Pali by The Amaravati Sangha. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html .

Commentary on words and phrases by Andrew Olendzki

http://www.dharmanet.org/coursesM/18/mettasutta6.htm