This month’s question:

Q) If a person has no soul, what is re-born?

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In this podcast:

• Discussing: soul, psyche, animus - but is this the same as ‘anatman’?
• The Old English notion of ‘soul’.
• The Wheel of Becoming as the essential teachings of the Buddha explaining how beings arise without agent or ‘do-er’ to make things happen.
• The principles of re-birth as rooted in doctrine of karma.
• The Zen koan, Master Zuigan calls to himself three times.
• The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of personality.
• Jung and the Shadow.

Continuing the discussion on the fundamentals of Zen training, this podcast examines the importance of ‘form’ in practice.

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In this podcast:

• The two types of form - personal form and the form of places and situations
• The universality of form amongst different species and how it aids in living in-form.
• Sokei-an and the shape of meditation - how form gives dignity and collects the heart.
• The form in behaviour - how to set up a timetable and why?
• Suggestions for practicing ‘good form’.