Sydney Zen Centre
Talks from the Sydney Zen Centre about Zen Buddhist practice.
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Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Teisho by Subhana Barzaghi, roshi 'Cultivating the immeasurable quality of joy'
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Subhana gives meditation instructions for Silent Illumination, also known as Just Sitting or Shikantaza. Zen master’s Hongzhi illuminated Silent Illumination as both method and realisation of mind. She gives a guided meditation of 15 mins, sitting in open expansive spacious awareness and letting go of identification with body and mind.
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
"If there is even a bit of difference, it is the remote distance between heaven and earth." This is a famous Zen saying that has been used many times by the masters of the past and present, but what does it mean? Difference between what and what? Allan Marett, roshi explores a famous exchange between Fayan and his pilgrimage companion Hiushan that focuses on this phrase, from the Book of Serenity, Case 17 - 'Fayan's Tiny Bit'.
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Maggie Gluek, roshi, describes how old Chao Chou offers us a key to the gateless barrier, a word that is no word that opens the door to everything. And in which Wu Men with his long comment shines a light on the practice of Zen.Don’t go thinking you’ve heard this all before!
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Apprentice teacher Jane Andino explores Case 4 of the Book of Serenity.
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