AZC Weekly talks

This is the third in a series on teachers in the Auckland Zen Centre's lineage.

Sources: Endless Vow: the Path of Soen Nakagawa Roshi by Roko Sherry Chayat

Original Dwelling Place by Robert Aitken

Remembering Nakagawa Soen Roshi by Estelle Gerard.

Description: Teachings on determination, generosity and gratitude.

Source: Ichi Tantei One Doing -- Tangen-roshi of Bukkokuji Teisho, translations by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa, Edited by Ron Klein.

Description: Anecdotes and teachings.

Source: Ichi Tantei - One doing, Tangen-roshi of Bukkokuji, teisho translations by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa, edited by Ron Klein.

Description: Anecdotes and teachings.

Source: Ichi Tantei - One doing, Tangen-roshi of Bukkokuji, teisho translations by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa, edited by Ron Klein.

Description: Constant flow.

Source: Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andy Fergusson.

Description: Constant flow.

Some pointers and cautions for zazen at the beginning of our 7-day sesshin.

Sources: Various.

Second in a series of talks on The Three Marks of Existence, Impermanence, Suffering and Not-Self. Suffering is a core teaching of Buddhism. The Buddha said "I teach but two things; suffering and the way out of suffering." Buddhism addresses our personal suffering as well as equipping us to be able to effectively help other beings to find liberation.

Sources: Dharma Rain eds Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft and There Is No Suffering Master Sheng Yen.

This is the first in a series of koans centred on the natural world. The koan is Case 46 in the Blue Cliff Record.

Sources: Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andy Ferguson and A Step Away from Paradise by Thomas Shor.

Description: Sabbe anicca. Everything that arises passes. Impermanence is one of the Three Marks, or Characteristics, of Existence, and a cornerstone of Buddhist teaching. The Buddha says that what is real is change itself,and that there's order in that change. The Bodhisattva's practice of ego-attrition happens both on the meditation cushion and in our work in the world.

Source: Dharma Rain, Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism eds Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala 2000.