Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

November 2022 Sesshin, 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.

November 2022 Sesshin, 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.

November 2022 Sesshin, 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.

November 2022 Sesshin, 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.

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

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 5 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 4 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

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

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