AZC Weekly talks
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2021-07-31 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 1
Early life and awakening Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/tnt2nc8uvzTunQmORDJdBfTWqKg
2021-06-29 Precepts 3 - discussion
Discussion following teisho Precepts 3.
2021-06-29 Precepts 3
Comments on precepts 3, 5 and 9 (sex, intoxicants and anger). Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/tAjKCqb9J5WQIYSW8xi6tORmm8g
2021-06-15 Precepts 2 - discussion
A discussion following the talk Precepts 2.
2021-06-15 Precepts 2
This talk covers precepts 2 and 8, which have to do with greed -- wanting stuff we don't have and clinging to stuff we already have, as well as precepts 4,6 and 7 which are to do with different aspects of right speech -- being truthful, kind and not boastful. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/3mha923rEWSTSGcdGwI4kTGSgPg
2021-06-09 M10 Sozan and Poor Seizei
Working with spiritual poverty.
2021-06-08 An Experience of Enlightenment 4
Arrival, loss and return -- the universe changes on its axis, but how to share this amazing experience with others? Searching for a context for 20 years and finally finding one. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
2021-06-07 An Experience of Enlightenment 3
A turning point -- no need to look further than the mind itself. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
2121-06-06 An Experience of Enlightenment 2
Flora Curtois' search for Reality, or the ground of being. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
2021-06-05 An Experience of Enlightenment 1
Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
2021-06-01 Precepts Part 1 - discussion
Discussion following the teisho on precepts (part 1) Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TzR5AgJe8tXU1xqsnAIJoxaEYkg
2021-06-01 Precepts Part 1
The 10 Precepts are at the core of the Great Way and have their origins in the 8-fold Path. The version that we say can be found in the Brahma Net Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva in the 4th Century CE. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TzR5AgJe8tXU1xqsnAIJoxaEYkg
2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds
The teaching and poetry of grass and weeds, from Zen to Walt Whitman.
2021-04-20 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 3
All is a circle -- an exploration of some of the circles to be found in nature and in Mind. Main Texts: River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism by Taitetsu Unno, article From Anthropocene to Noosphere: The Great Acceleration in AGU (Advancing Earth and Space Science), 2021, by Boris Shoshitaishvili
2021-04-13 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 2
Learning from spiritual friends, practising humility. Main text: River of Fire, River of Water by Taitetsu Unno
2021-03-21 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 1
What we can learn from the Japanese Pure Land tradition Main Text: River of Fire, River of Water: An introduction to The Pure Land tradition of Shin Buddhism by Taitetsu Unno
2021-02-16 Vows, Faith, Compassion and Renunciation 2
More on how and why our sitting practice is woven with vows. Examples of other formulations of vows within the Mahayana tradition.
2021-01-26 Vows, Faith, Compassion and Renunciation
A look at four essential ingredients of our practice of the Buddhadharma, (besides zazen), and an introduction to Ko Ngā Oati e Whā (the four great vows in te reo).
2021-01-15 H18 The National Teacher's Seamless Monument
The Emperor of China doesn't understand the National Teacher's request for him to build a 'seamless monument'. After he dies, his heir Tangen recites a poem to answer the Emperor's query, saying, "Beneath the shadowless tree a community ferryboat."
2021-01-14 H17 Kyorin's Sitting Long and Getting Tired
What is the meaning of Zen? What is the meaning of life?
2021-01-13 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 5
How we cling to the self-identities we create, even when they are painful. Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
2021-01-12 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 4
Renunciation is not an outward but an inward action, a gradual transformation of our attitude toward the world around us. Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
2021-01-11 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 3
Who or what is in the way of our waking up? How do we get out of the way? Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
2021-01-10 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 2
How subjective emotional consciousness distorts our experience. Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
2021-01-09 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 1
Some historical background on Master Dahui and his championing of koan practice. Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary, and Circle of the Way by Barbara O'Brien
2020-11-24 Chiyono's "No Water, No Moon"
Chiyono experiences enlightenment when the bottom falls out of her water bucket. How do we break out of fixed ways of seeing ourselves and framing the world? Absorption in a koan is a tried and tested way. Main text: The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
2020-11-10 "These Mountains, They Are in Pain"
A meeting between a Buddhist monk and a people in Colombia who understand that they are part of the living world, not separate from it. Main Text: Running Toward Mystery; The Adventure of an Unconventional Life by Ven Tenzin Priyadarshi and Zara Houshmand
2020-07-31 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 4
"With total trust, roam and play in samadhi". Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
2020-07-30 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 3
"You must be broadminded, whole, without relying on others." Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
2020-07-29 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 2
The bright, boundless field -- what is it? "Degrading situations" and how to avoid pursuing them. Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
2020-07-28 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 1
The life of Master Hongzhi Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
2020-10-25 Navigating by the stars
Words from two wise women -- Anne Salmond and Susan Murphy -- for Jacinda Ardern (and all of us) as many challenges loom. Texts: Newsroom article, 18 October, 2020 Navigating by the stars www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/anne-salmond-navigating-by-the-stars?fbclid=IwAR1oAA9c8VPWA-jF6jj5cWOwrZsA4j_x3bFtx3AXzudpFlO8WaBqXsPge4Q Minding the Earth, Mending the World by Susan Murphy
2020-10-20 Coming to the Path - Sally
Sally's Coming to the Path talk
2020-09-26 Questions Raised by the Cannabis Legalisation Ref
How does cannabis legalisation relate to the precept of not taking intoxicants or causing others to do so? What legal framework will improve health and equity while reducing harm?
2020-09-26 Term Intensive Introduction
Introduction to the Spring Term Intensive
20-09-15 End Of Life Choice Referendum
The first precept is "Not to Kill, but to cherish all life." How does this guidance play into how we might vote on the proposed euthanasia legislation? How will the legalisation of assisted suiside affect individuals, families and communities?
2020-07-30 Day Three 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 3: The Practice of True Reality Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu.
2010-08-26 M 9 Daitsu Chisho Buddha
Why does Great Penetration Supreme Wisdom Buddha sit for 10 eons and not attain buddhahood?
2020-08-25 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 4
What is the point of practice if so few experience deep awakening? Practice as a process of tenderising. St Francis and the wolf of Gubbio. Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
2020-08-24 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 3
Pushing on an unlocked door that opens towards us -- getting beyond the self/other split Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
2020-08-23 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 2
Some of the different forms our doubt may take. Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
2020-08-22 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 1
The nature of Great Doubt and its origin in our sense of alienation Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
2020-07-31 Day Four 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 4: With Total Trust Roam and Play in Samadhi Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu.
2020-07-29 Day Two 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 2: The Bright, Boundless Field Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu. What Is This? Ancient Questions for modern minds by Martine and Stephen Batchelor Being Black, Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace by Angel Kyodo Williams
2020-07-28 Day One 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 1: Biography of Master Hongzhi Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu.
2020-07-28 Cultivating Delight
Comments on an interview with leading American poet Ross Gay where he describes how we can cultivate joy, delight and gratitude. Main source(s): https://onbeing.org/programs/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight/
2020-07-07 Matariki Jukai
Jukai : why and how we receive the 16 precepts, and do it more than once, plus some notes on understanding the 10 cardinal precepts in the light of the 3 resolutions -- to do no harm, to do good, and to liberate all living beings.
2020-07-05 Dharma class Heart Sutra 4
The fourth and last of the pre-Jukai Dharma classes on the Heart Sutra
2020-06-28 Dharma Class - Heart Sutra 3
The third in the series of dharma classes on the Heart Sutra
2020-06-21 Dharma Class Heart Sutra 2
The second class in the Heart Sutra series.