The No Abode Audio Archive

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We are all creating the space together for people to have profound experience in zazen. Kind and unkind thoughts are opportunities to express the Buddha mind. Compassion towards wholesome and unwholesome thoughts are dharma doors... -

Summary of the unrecorded morning talk. The practice of just sitting. Remembering stillness, letting go of 'what next.' Training to ready for this moment, and for death. -

Sitting in the world, we can't perceive the whole world; we sit in our dharma position, which changes all the time. Impermanence is Buddhism - this place is no abode.. -

Everything is manifesting the path of the ancient buddhas, abiding together in their respective dharma positions. Abiding in this moment and being free of it, even if we think it is obstruction or that we are stuck. -

Torei's vow; bowing in humility in the face of cruelty; meeting monsters with lovingkindness. -

Being supported in compassion; Uncle Mi and the rabbit; -

Origins of the Bodhisattva precepts; development and commentaries; the reasons for Buddhas appearing in this world. -

Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra: https://www.tinyurl.com/Brahma-Net -

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. -

Avalokiteshvara's eyes of compassion observing all sentient beings; Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu, facing the wall for nine years; the Sixth Ancestor's training; -

Control is antithetical to enlightenment; NASA control center and GPS guidance systems; granddaughter's pacifier -

Listening to each others' stories; Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights; -

Manjushri's 'the teaching of the Buddha is thus'; accepting suffering and pleasure; being gentle with your own body. -

Coming to Zen Center to receive training; extensive discussion and planting rice fields can both be appropriate response; -

Not abiding in anything, including wisdom; helping without the idea of helping; practicing the paramitas without holding on to them; Buddha twirling a flower, Manjushri smiling is transmission in both directions. -

Buddha mind is an intimate conversation; Dogen's meeting a master for the first time; conscious and unconscious mind. -

The desire for awakening for the welfare of all beings; social engagement and silence, both practices pervade all beings; practicing with the limitations of the body. -

Koans, using consciousness to go beyond consciousness; the path which can be spoken is not the true path. -

Our practice includes everyone's else practice; other people's fulfillment is our fulfillment. -

Buddha's 'a good place for a sanctuary'; karma is a place to build a sanctuary; extending out practice outside the zendo; expressing from a place before you were born; -

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Bodhisattvas vow to teach. Lay bodhisatta and priest bodhisattvas are both students and teachers of the dharma.  -