Rochester Zen Center Teisho (zen Talks)

Sesshin: January 2023, Day 2. Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript The post “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away” by Ajahn Chah appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: January 2023, Day 1. Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript The post “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away” by Ajahn Chah appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Separating Dharma from Dogma Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript The post Zen and Religion appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post The Privilege of Being Present at Transitions appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript The post Working with the Urge to Consume appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript The post The Precepts, Part 2: The Ten Cardinal Precepts appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Thanksgiving Advice appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript The post The Precepts, Part 1: The Three Poisons, Repentance, The Three Refuges, and The Three Pure Precepts appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 6. Description: What is my light? Why can’t I see it? How do I stop objectifying myself and those around me? Source(s): The Golden Age of Zen by John C.H. Wu, Doubleday 1996 Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post Hekiganroku #86, Ummon’s “Everybody has their own light” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 5. Description: Zen practice is experiential — we each have to find our way to the truth, giving up our egoistic striving. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996 Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 5 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 4. Description: Pride in our good deeds reinforces our sense of self-importance, and therefore works at cross-purposes to our efforts to free ourselves from the delusion of separation. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 4 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 3. Description: A master once said, “The taste of Zen is pain in the knees.” How do we work creatively with pain and weariness in these early days of sesshin? Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996 Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 2. Description: Practising right where we are. Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Sesshin: November 2022, Day 1. Description: Biographical material Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript The post The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

How Zen practice deconstructs the self while the Dharma nourishes the Self, with a commentary on the koan “Linji’s Blind Donkey” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Zen Destruction and Aspiration appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Septober 2022 Sesshin, Day 6: Blue Cliff Record #53, “Hyakujo and the Wild Duck” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Septober 2022 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Septober 2022 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Septober 2022 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Master Bassui from The Three Pillars of Zen appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Septober 2022 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Master Foyan from Instant Zen: Waking Up In the Present (trans. by Thomas Cleary) appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.