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The Flower Adornment Scripture - Book Seven - Names of Buddha - Part One

Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Hindrances
Jun 15 2024
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Introduction to the Flower Adornment Scripture Meditations for Online Assemblies

Avatamsaka Sutra, Flower Adornment Sutra, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, Vairochana Buddha, Sanctuary...
Apr 27 2024
AM
No Abode Hermitage

A Commencement Ceremony for Exploring the Great Flower Adornment Scripture

A Dharma talk by Tenshin Roshi for a gathering of the No Abode community opening study of the Avatamsaka Sutra.  

Avatamsaka Sutra, Flower Adornment Sutra, City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Hongzhi, Book of Serenity,...
Jun 24 2023
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Stories of Enlightenment

In our class this fall we will contemplate and converse about several stories of Zen practice and enlightenment. Our contemplation and conversations will naturally bring up questions and concerns...

YRB-2019-Fall, Observe, Book of Serenity, Interview, Culture, Suzuki Roshi, Priest,...
Nov 07 2019
6/7
The Yoga Room

Stories of Enlightenment

In our class this fall we will contemplate and converse about several stories of Zen practice and enlightenment. Our contemplation and conversations will naturally bring up questions and concerns...

YRB-2019-Fall, Blue Cliff Record, Japan, true dharma, Book of Serenity, Patience,...
Oct 17 2019
3/7
The Yoga Room

Stories of Enlightenment

In our class this fall we will contemplate and converse about several stories of Zen practice and enlightenment. Our contemplation and conversations will naturally bring up questions and concerns...

YRB-2019-Fall, Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Daily Life, Suzuki Roshi,...
Oct 10 2019
2/7
The Yoga Room

Stories of Enlightenment

In our class this fall we will contemplate and converse about several stories of Zen practice and enlightenment. Our contemplation and conversations will naturally bring up questions and concerns...

YRB-2019-Fall, confusion, Book of Serenity, Discrimination, Zazen, resistance...
Oct 03 2019
1/7
The Yoga Room

Our Original Home

Human consciousness limits reality so that it can grasp "things".

Torei Zenji, Consciousness, Book of Serenity, Enemies, Evil, Emotions
Jul 13 2019
PM
No Abode Hermitage

The World-Honored One Ascends the Seat

Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Precious Mirror, Observe
May 18 2019
PM
No Abode Hermitage

What Is Most Important For You In This Life

Being clear about our ultimate concern. Remember, aspire, commit to, and train to realise this. The story of Tong-an and Liangshan: what is the business under the patched robe? Intimacy. Another...

Vow, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind,...
Feb 02 2019
AM
No Abode Hermitage

The Womb of the Tathagata #1

Case 67 of the Book of Serenity; there is not a single sentient being who does not fully possess the wisdom of the enlightened mind.

Flower Adornment Sutra, Koan, Book of Serenity,
Apr 14 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

Exploring Consciousness and Realizing Wisdom

Exploring consciousness with the aid of Buddha's teachings is a path to discovering and realizing deep, liberating Wisdom. Consciousness may be experienced as confining and confusing; at the same...

Perfect Wisdom, Consciousness, Wisdom, Book of Serenity, Demons, Enemies, Karmic...
Mar 23 2014
8
No Abode Hermitage

The Room, the Seat, and the Robe 

The Room, the Seat and the Robe
No Abode 4/14/12

Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, Book of Serenity, Interdependence, Precepts
Apr 14 2012
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Embracing Enlightenment I 

Karmic Consciousness, Book of Serenity, Silence, Attachment
Jun 11 2011
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Embodying the Lotus Sutra 

Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity
Apr 24 2008
The Yoga Room

The Light of Buddha's Wisdom - Precepts of Compassion

Buddha sheds the light of wisdom on the true nature of suffering, liberation, and the human mind, on the teachings of compassion, moral causation, and the whole phenomenal universe. This retreat...

Letting Go, Karmic Consciousness, Bowing, Book of Serenity, Fox
May 06 2007
Part 7
Mount Madonna Center