78 – The Ten Oxherding Pictures: Stages of Practice When You're Going Nowhere
The Ten Oxherding pictures are a Zen teaching, but many Buddhist practitioners are familiar with the experience of trying to motivate yourself to practice without the rewards of explicit, tangible goa...
1 Marras 201818min
77 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 2
Second part of a two-part series: The story of my particular school, Soto Zen, in America, but even if you identify with a different type of Buddhism you may find it interesting because so many forms ...
28 Loka 201834min
76 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 1
I tell you the story of my lineage of Zen over the last 100 years or so – its birth in America, its growth, its rocky adolescence, and how it's coming into an adulthood of sorts that gives it the stre...
12 Loka 201829min
75 – Sekito Kisen's Sandokai: The Identity of Relative and Absolute – Part 2
This my second episode on the Sandokai, an ancient teaching poem composed by Chinese Zen master Sekito Kisen (Shitou Xiqian, 700-790). It's recited daily in Soto Zen temples throughout the world - one...
4 Loka 201823min
74 – Sekito Kisen's Sandokai: The Identity of Relative and Absolute – Part 1
Sandokai is a teaching poem composed by Chinese Chan (Zen) master Sekito Kisen (Shitou Xiqian, 700-790). It's recited daily in Soto Zen temples throughout the world. In this episode I explore the mean...
27 Syys 201829min
73 – Is Buddhism Secular, Spiritual, or Religious?
Is Buddhism religious, spiritual, or secular? The short answer to that is all three – depending what questions you're asking. In this episode I define religious, spiritual, and secular, and then exami...
11 Syys 201825min
72 – Taking Care of Our Lives: More About the Karma Relationship Side of Practice
In Episode 38 I talked about how Buddhist practice has two sides – samadhi power and karma relationship. Samadhi power is about cultivating a direct, real-life experience of the nondual aspect of real...
1 Syys 201826min
71 - Buddha's Teachings 9: The Four Brahmaviharas, or Sublime Social Attitudes - Part 3
In this third episode of my series on the Four Brahmaviharas, I briefly talk about how to use them in daily practice without setting them up as unattainable ideals. Then I discuss what tends to get in...
26 Elo 201828min
