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- Episode 287: THZ 287 - Butsudō-Produce a Lotus Sutra
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. The fourth is "produce a Lotus Sutra." (Koun Franz; September 3, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.17 min - Episode 286: THZ 286 - Mindfulness and Pain
On how pain can bring us into the present. (Koun Franz; August 20, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.17 min - Episode 285: THZ 285 - Butsudō- Produce a Buddha
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. The third is "to work to produce a buddha during this life." (Koun Franz; August 6, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.17 min - Episode 284: THZ 284 - Butsudō- Cultivate the Mind of Awakening
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. In this talk, a look at the first: cultivating the mind of awakening. (Koun Franz; July 22, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.21 min - Episode 283: THZ 283 - Butsudō: Revere the Three Treasures
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. The second: "Next, we should deeply revere the three treasures of buddha, dharma, and sangha." (Koun Franz; July 9, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.23 min - Episode 282: THZ 282 - We Hold the Aggressor with Compassion
On retreat, a talk about how we hold someone we see as an enemy versus how we hold a baby. (Koun Franz; June 22, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.20 min - Episode 281: THZ - 281 Hands and Eyes
Case #105 of Dōgen’s Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; June 18, 2024):
Yunyan asked Daowu, “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion [Avalokiteśvara] use so many hands and eyes?”
Daowu said, “It’s just like a person in the middle of the night reaching back in search of a pillow.”
—from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, by John Daido Loori and Kazuaki Tanahashi
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.19 min - Episode 280: THZ 280 - What We Are A Part Of
Our temple, Sensouji, has received official recognition as a temple by the Soto Zen School in Japan. Here, a talk about what it means for us to belong to something else: a sect, a school, a tradition, a lineage. (Koun Franz; June 4, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.15 min - Episode 279: THZ 279 - Waiting For The Bell
When we sit in zazen, we’re waiting for the bell; when we notice that feeling, we notice we’re always waiting for something. What if we weren’t? (Koun Franz; May 21, 2024)
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen podcast.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.16 min - Episode 278: THZ 278 - Each Stitch Like the Earth Exploding
Case 93 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; May 7, 2024):
Shenshan was sewing when Dongshan said, “What are you doing?”
Shenshan said, “I am sewing.”
Dongshan said, “What is sewing?”
Shenshan said, “Each stitch follows the other.”
Dongshan said, “If my companion of twenty years says so, I guess there is a point.”
Shenshan said, “What would you say, Elder?”
Dongshan said, “Each stitch is like the earth exploding."
—from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, by John Daido Loori and Kazuaki Tanahashi
You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
Post-production by Tod Nyokai.18 min
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