Tenshin Reb Anderson Talks

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;

Ungraspable nature of all phenomena; perfect wisdom understands dependent co-arising; non-abiding in any state.

Buddha pointing to the earth, a good place for a sanctuary; masks and personas; freedom from self-consciousness.

Buddha's 'a good place to build a sanctuary'; buddha mind is intimately transmitted - Sandokai; undergoing surgery; baby developing a self;

Talking about recent surgery; Buddha's 'a good place for a sanctuary'; the Buddha's work is face-to-face meeting; conversations within a family; opening the door to our original face...

In the midst of stillness there is the awakened activity of liberating beings; lovingkindness and politics; becoming Buddha by realizing causation; not being possessive of anything, even the dharma,...