Texts used in the teisho:

Karen Armstrong, Buddha

Stephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil

Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker, Great Disciples of the Buddha

Book quoted from:  The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman.

Book quoted from:  The Force of Character by James Hillman.

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".

Teisho by Sensei Richard von Sturmer

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

Teisho by Sensei Richard von Sturmer.

The Milindapañha (lit. 'Questions of Milinda') is a Buddhist text which dates from sometime between 100 BC and 200 AD. It is a dialogue between the Indian Buddhist sage Nāgasena, and the 2nd century BC Indo-Greek king Menander I (Pali: Milinda).

A Dharma talk by Sensei Richard von Sturmer.

Texts used: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki by David Chadwick; To Shine One Corner of the World by David Chadwick.

Reflections on the situation in Gaza and readings from Carlo Rovelli's book, White Holes.

A Dharma talk by Richard von Sturmer.

Main text used: 'Encouraging Words' by Robert Aitken"

Dharma talk by Sensei Richard von Sturmer.