Talk by Tokuyu Hoshi “Losing Your Life”

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Talk by Tokuyu Hoshi “Losing Your Life”

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Apr 11, 2019

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April 11, 2019 Tokuyu Hoshi asks, “How can we take the ropes off and climb free?”

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Apr 11, 2019

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Dharma talks on Zen Buddhism from the Village Zendo in New York City.

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Talk by Roshi “The Miracle of Samadhi”: Roshi Enkyo O’Hara gives the first talk of our 2018-2019 winter retreat. Roshi starts by recognizing the efforts our retreat organizers, and our Winter Ango practice leader Gessho Randolph. Roshi recites a short poem from our study text by the Zen poet... by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
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Talk by Tokuyu Hoshi “Improvise Your Life”: How can we stay in the flow while maintaining form, and how can we keep form without losing the flow? by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
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Talk by Ryotan Sensei “Stillness in Action”: In his talk during October’s zazenkai, Ryotan Sensei shares how the foot before and the foot behind in walking get nowhere, and everywhere. Recorded October 13, 2018. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
33 min listen
Talk by Myoko Sensei “Calm Within the Storm”: Myoko Sensei reminds us that within all the turbulence of our troubled times, our practice offers us refuge from the storm. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
41 min listen
Talk by Frank Ostaseski: November 11, 2018 by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
32 min listen
Talk by Ryotan Sensei “Drop Body and Mind”: Ryotan Sensei reminds us that Zazen is the heart of our practice by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
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Talk by Ryotan Sensei “Experience Can Be Hard to Bear”: January 17, 2019 Ryotan Sensei observes how a poem by Ryokan points to the confusion between words or concepts and reality itself. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
26 min listen
Talk by Tokuyu Hoshi “Gold Sufficient for a Nation”: In this talk senior student Tokuyu starts with issues his music students have with recognition, and the feeling of lack and never achieving enough. Tokuyu looks at how psychology and physiology combine to create internal anger that can lead to chronic... by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
29 min listen
Talk by Kojin Gaelyn Roshi “Responding to Flames”: Kojin Gaelyn Roshi is the abbot of Houston Zen Center, a Soto Zen temple in Suzuki Roshi’s lineage. She received ordination from Tenshin Reb Anderson at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1991, and Dharma Transmission in 2003. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
24 min listen
Talk by Bokushu Hoshi “The Four Vows Part One: Sentient Beings”: In the first of a series of talks on the Four Vows, Bokushu looks at the value of life through the first vow “Sentient Beings are numberless: I vow to save them.” by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
30 min listen
Talk by Eisho Sensei “A Look Into the Heart Sutra”: In this talk Eisho looks into the Heart Sutra in a fresh and inviting way. Recorded October 28th 2018. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
32 min listen
Dai Sesshin 2019 – Talk by Ryotan Sensei: “Bodhisattvas, Come Get Your Rice!”: In the final talk of Dai Sesshin, Ryotan Sensei relates how master Chin Niu and the Vimalakirti Sutra remind us that our lives are boundless. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
39 min listen
Talk by Roshi “Appreciating Bernie”: In this talk Roshi fondly remembers her recently departed teacher Zen Master Bernie Glassman. She recounts how they met, and how Bernie used his actions and activism to teach and inspire a new kind of Zen practice. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
36 min listen
Talk by Joshin Sensei “Build Me a Seamless Monument”: We are the world, inseparable from it and not above it; yet, in our quest for affirmation, we seek special status. Joshin explores how the quest for dominance arises from a case of mistaken identity. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
47 min listen
Talk by Shinryu Sensei “What Are We Doing Here?”: April 13, 2019 Shinryu Sensei discusses the point of Zen meditation today, drawing from Master Keizan’s classic “Points to Keep in Mind when Practicing Zazen” (Zazen Yojinki) by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
28 min listen
Talk by Kaku Hoshi “Dogen’s Report to the MeToo Movement”: In this talk, Kaku Hoshi offers an idea of what Dogen’s report to the MeToo movement might be. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
26 min listen
Talk by Roshi “As If In a Dream”: What do we see as if in a dream — in our personal, political, and spiritual life? by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
36 min listen
Talk by Ryotan Sensei “Seeing Clearly, Acting Appropriately”: January 20, 2019 In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Ryotan Sensei challenges us to see the reality of racism clearly so that we can take effective action right now. The three pure precepts light the way. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
37 min listen
Talk by Roshi “The Face of the Other”: In this talk Roshi sees our society in a desperate gesture to distinguish what is perceived as different. What is me, and what is not me. Whether it is class, gender, religion or race – how do we get caught in bias that leads to fear and hostility? by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
27 min listen
Talk by Shinryu Sensei “A Single Pearl”: In this talk, during our 2018-19 winter retreat, Shinryu Sensei says “welcome home” to those attending the retreat and sees coming home itself as a way of expressing our practice. He then states his admiration for the poems of Ryokan and reads a few, by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
27 min listen
Talk by Roshi “Spiritual Authority”: March 7, 2019 Enkyo Roshi offers a teaching about teaching, how the best use of spiritual authority is to help us live from our own truth. Case 23 from the Mumonkan, “Think Neither Good Nor Evil,” illumines the nature of transmission. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
24 min listen
Talk by Shinryu Sensei “A Zen Holiday”: Drawing on the classic Zen literature as well as a contemporary koan, Shinryu Sensei offers a challenge to our common judgments about our daily life and human tribulations. Recorded April 4th, 2019. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
23 min listen
Talk by Myoko Sensei “Inside Out”: Recorded Thursday April 18, 2019. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
49 min listen
Talk by Bokushu Hoshi, “Mailboxes are People, Too”: Bokushu Hoshi reflects on a startling encounter with three mailboxes that revealed him to himself. December 13, 2018 by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
25 min listen
Talk by Ryotan Sensei: “Practicing Compassion in the Dark”: A Bodhisattva of compassion reaches back for a pillow in the middle of the night. Bernie Roshi groping in the dark transforms the world. November 18, 2018, Zazenkai by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
31 min listen
Talk by Ryotan Sensei “Truly Dropping Out”: In this talk, the last of our 2018-19 winter retreat, Ryotan Sensei starts by thanking the many Sangha members who work hard to create our retreat. He then mentions growing up in the same town as Dr. Timothy Leary, who’s famous slogan was “Tune in, by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
38 min listen
Talk by Roshi: The World is Vast and Wide: The World is Vast and Wide December 20, 2018 Enkyo Roshi opens up the Verse of the Kesa to encourage us to embody benefaction, to respond to suffering through practice. Thus we change the world. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
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Talk by Shinryu Sensei “With Death Before Your Eyes”: Shinryu Sensei recounts stories about the Chinese ancestors Dogo, Ungan, and Yakusan to reflect on Zen practice in the face of death. Recorded May 5th, 2019 by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
33 min listen
Talk by Kaku Hoshi “Moonlight”: Kaku Hoshi looks at Dogen’s “The Moon Shining on All Beings and Oneself,” and draws lessons on joy and the power of taking care of ourselves. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
21 min listen
Talk by Roshi “Throughout the Body”: February 10, 2019 Enkyo Roshi asks how we can embody the compassion of Avalokiteshvara. Like reaching behind ourselves for the pillow in the night, we respond with the whole body, giving and receiving. by Village Zendo Teacher Talks
31 min listen

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