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Prajna Paramita, the Lovely, the Holy Ungraspable nature of all phenomena; perfect wisdom understands dependent co-arising; non-abiding in any state.
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Perfect Wisdom, Transmission, Compassion, Dependent Origination, Perfect Wisdom, Wisdom,... |
Jul 08 2017 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Teaching of the Buddha’s Whole Lifetime Coming to Zen Center to receive training; extensive discussion and planting rice fields can both be appropriate response;
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Perfect Wisdom, Faith, Politics |
Aug 05 2017 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Teaching of the Buddha’s Whole Lifetime Yunmen's appropriate response; being Buddha right where you are: Master Ma being ready to die;
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Koan, Mindfulness, Delusion, Nirvana |
Aug 05 2017 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddhas Turn the Wheel of Dharma in the Midst of Fierce Flames Manjushri's 'the teaching of the Buddha is thus'; accepting suffering and pleasure; being gentle with your own body.
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Suffering, Buddha, Manjushri |
Oct 14 2017 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddhas Turn the Wheel of Dharma in the Midst of Fierce Flames How to be with the fire that surrounds us; Buddha sitting upright, clearly observing, accepting all suffering; watching our fears about not being able to control things.
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Suffering, Practice, Observe |
Oct 14 2017 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Watch the Set-Up Carefully Listening to each others' stories; Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights;
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Avalokiteshvara, Bodhidharma, Tassajara |
Nov 11 2017 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddha’s Zazen is Face-to-Face Transmission The personal practice of paying attention to the posture of samadhi; mindfulness of breathing; remembering stillness as transmitted by the ancestors;
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Transmission, Zazen, Sangha, Posture |
Nov 11 2017 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Guidance or Control Control is antithetical to enlightenment; NASA control center and GPS guidance systems; granddaughter's pacifier
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Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Transmission, American, Patience |
Feb 03 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Everything is Calling for a Compassionate Response Buddha's sitting - who do you think you are; ; Buddha, dharma and sangha are all-pervading; Yunmen's appropriate response.
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Sangha, Community, Complete Perfect Enlightenment |
Feb 03 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Bodhidharma Listening to the Cries of the World Avalokiteshvara's eyes of compassion observing all sentient beings; Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu, facing the wall for nine years; the Sixth Ancestor's training;
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Buddha Ancestors, Consciousness, Compassion, Bodhisattva, Bodhidharma, cognitive process,... |
Mar 03 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Bodhidharma Listening to the Cries of the World Avalokiteshvara clearly seeing the emptiness of five skandhas; listening to the cries of the world, the suffering of beings.
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Compassion, Suffering, Emptiness, Buddha, Suffering, Bodhisattva |
Mar 03 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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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.
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Flower Adornment Sutra, Koan, Book of Serenity, Book of Serenity, Forgiveness, Buddha Nature... |
Apr 14 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #1 Origin of the tathagathagharba teachings; the Huayen school in China; three marks of existence and four inverted views; skillful means of milk medicine described in the Nirvana Sutra.
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Tathagatagharba, Flower Adornment Sutra, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence, Buddha Nature, Addiction... |
Apr 14 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #2: Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra: https://www.tinyurl.com/Brahma-Net
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Buddha Nature, Platform Sutra, Precepts, Buddha, Platform Sutra, Bodhisattva Precepts... |
May 12 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #2: Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra: https://www.tinyurl.com/Brahma-Net
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Platform Sutra, Bodhisattva Precepts, Nirvana Sutra, Confession-and-Repentance, Buddha, Buddha... |
May 12 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #3: Our Buddha Nature Precepts Origins of the Bodhisattva precepts; development and commentaries; the reasons for Buddhas appearing in this world.
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Precepts, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Heart Sutra, Precepts, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva... |
Jun 09 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #3: Our Buddha Nature Precepts Verifying the truth of the teachings through words and phrases
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Precepts, Bodhisattva, Suffering, Consciousness |
Jun 09 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #4 Being supported in compassion; Uncle Mi and the rabbit;
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Compassion, Buddha Nature, Perfect Wisdom, Attachment |
Jul 14 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #4 Opportunities for compassion - with friends and enemies; the story of the destitute son from the Lotus Sutra
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Compassion, Enemies, Buddha Nature, Lotus Sutra |
Jul 14 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #5 Torei's vow; bowing in humility in the face of cruelty; meeting monsters with lovingkindness.
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Confession-and-Repentance, Lovingkindness, Repentance, Commitment, Precepts |
Aug 11 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Womb of the Tathagata #5 Meeting a teacher, asking about the teaching and listening to the teaching. Bodies and minds sitting silently and conversing.
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Lotus Sutra, Silence, Buddha Mind |
Aug 11 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Contemplating Torei Zenji's Vow 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.
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Global Warming, Stillness, Global Warming, Instruction |
Sep 15 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Compassion is a Conversation A conversation is what we are doing together. Buddhas are sitting upright and still, in the midst of everything, having a conversation with silence. The story of his Nanchuan and his sickle. Meeting the person and the moment in... -
Compassion, Global Warming, Koan, Global Warming, Stillness, Ceremony |
Sep 15 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Silent Sitting and Social Action 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..
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Dharma Position, Impermanence, Compassion, Impermanence, Original Nature, Hate... |
Oct 20 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Silent Sitting and Social Action All compounded phenomena are unworthy of confidence. Compassion to these unstable phenomena is our practice. Zen stories are about enacting awakening within social interactions. Attend to your body, posture, breath first, and... -
Compassion, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Practice Period, Practice Period, Mindfulness,... |
Oct 20 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Hands And Eyes Of Avalokiteshvara Compassion is the teaching of the Buddha. Stories of the different statues and scrolls at No Abode. Yunmen and Daowu, the thousand arms of Avalokiteshvara.
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Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, Transmission, Silence, Avalokiteshvara, Perfect Wisdom, Heart... |
Nov 10 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The New Coffin 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.
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Death-and-Dying, Stillness, Bell, Silence |
Dec 15 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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What Is Most Important For You In This Life 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... -
Compassion, Buddha Mind, Mill Valley, Gratitude, Repentance, Enemies, Nirvana, Attachment... |
Feb 02 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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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 version of the story has the... -
Vow, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Intimacy,... |
Feb 02 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddha Activity -
Intimacy, Doubt, Faith, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Karmic Consciousness, Light-and-... |
Mar 09 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Generating Energy -
Patience, Enthusiasm, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Emotions, Breath |
Mar 09 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Just This Is: the Avatamsaka Sutra in the Zen Tradition -
Perfect Wisdom, Discrimination, Buddha Mind, Practice Period, Karmic Consciousness, Heart... |
Apr 13 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Traveling Along, Singing a Song, Side by Side If you’re a Buddha, do you know it?
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Equanimity |
Apr 13 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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A Conversation about Principle and Phenomena -
Heart Sutra, Perfect Wisdom, confusion, Letting Go, Don't Know Mind, Buddha Mind, Silence... |
May 18 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The World-Honored One Ascends the Seat -
Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Observe |
May 18 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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More Poverty And Nobility -
Discrimination, Lotus Sutra, Non-discrimination, Cultivation, Nirvana |
Jun 08 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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After Generations Of Nobility, Temporarily Fallen Into Poverty Buddha nature. Story about Uncle Mi and Dongshan discussing a rabbit crossing the road.Lotus Sutra story about the destitute child. Enlightenment and delusion. Human agency (or training) and awakening. Enlightenment is always... -
Buddha Nature, Koan, Enlightenment, Compassion, Practice, Work |
Jun 08 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Our Original Home -
Attachment, War, Bodhisattva Way, Discrimination, Buddha Mind |
Jul 13 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Our Original Home Human consciousness limits reality so that it can grasp "things".
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Torei, Consciousness, Book of Serenity, Enemies, Evil, Emotions |
Jul 13 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Wandering Away from Our Original Home in Search of Our Original Home -
Obstacles, Don't Know Mind, Daily Life, Silence, Priest |
Aug 10 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Wandering Away from Our Original Home in Search of Our Original Home -
Buddha Nature, Greed, Lotus Sutra |
Aug 10 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Chapter Three, Shoveling Dung -
Desire, Demons, Transmission |
Sep 14 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Chapter Three, Shoveling Dung -
Confession-and-Repentance, Breath, Repentance |
Sep 14 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Reaching Home Again Without Realizing It -
Chanting, Suzuki Roshi, Practice Period, Priest, Japan, Faith, Impermanence, Lotus Sutra,... |
Oct 19 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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The Non-Duality of Silence and Language -
Silence, Transmission, Perfect Wisdom, Non-duality, Balance, Duality, Observe, Heart Sutra,... |
Nov 23 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddha Has Reasons For Teaching Non-Self And Buddha Has Reasons For Teaching Self -
Addiction, Discrimination, Anger, Practice Period, Dragons, Impermanence, Enthusiasm, Priest... |
Feb 01 2020 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Buddha Has Reasons For Teaching Non-Self And Buddha Has Reasons For Teaching Self -
Addiction, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence, Religion, Nirvana, Letting Go, Building, Mahayana,... |
Feb 01 2020 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Ten Vows, Ten Practices, and Ten Cakes -
Discrimination, Bowing, Japan, Bell, Attachment, Priest, Dragons, Doubt, Bodhidharma, Balance... |
Mar 07 2020 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Ten Vows, Ten Practices, and Ten Cakes -
Discrimination, Nirvana, Practice Period, Blue Cliff Record, Letting Go, Right Effort, Right... |
Mar 07 2020 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Caring for Everything as Awakening A virtual Dharma talk by Tenshin Roshi for an online gathering of the No Abode Community via Zoom.
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Zoom, Coronavirus, Buddha, Precepts, Compassion |
May 02 2020 Zoom |