Auckland Zen Centre: Weekly Podcasts

Who do we trust for our information? How open-minded are we? Can we see beyond the views of the people we disagree with and stay connected? Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/XzTeGS3N0GbY_WzQ5slHpLLY-_k

Talk given in recognition of Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori). Some background on our 4 vows translation, Ko ngā Oati e Whā. Beginning to explore key concepts of the Maōri worldview, with a look at whanaungatanga, or right relationship. Text(s): In right relationship -- whanaungatanga by Haylee Kiroi in Climate Aotearoa ed. Helen Clark

In lockdown again, many of the ways that we "get a break from ourselves" are no longer possible. So how do we work with painful habits of thinking and feeling? Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/g9eity7un76x1QQGlup3GyICboM

How can we engage in our lives without falling into subject/object dualism? How can we hold onto nothing in the very midst of using all our senses? Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/4XeQRqAdbuBUg-aOjPSQ_aEgGPw

When Yu realises master Linji's "true person of no rank" she leaps beyond convention and societal norms. Text(s): The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, ed.Florence Caplow and Susan Moon Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/qhM5PQADJaOGJo_pJqDyazNJWYo

The space around our thoughts. Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/5Wio99bNCEzPoRnqGVhwFaW3di8

"You are not the conditions that make you do things." Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/WvZbHLiB-G8-YyOKX60zfP1pqhs

Self-preoccupation and the three conceits. Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/DKAxUiEOAaMZiC6FiUNq8Fgkf-k

The Manchester Buddhist Society and starting to teach. Non-returner and Bodhisattva paths. Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/yXjIWkytWMnTC-PCpdG1oARj1NI

Working with horses and people Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/oJLpNH5PagZFSrL0xHzyHLC8Akg

Early life and awakening Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015 Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/tnt2nc8uvzTunQmORDJdBfTWqKg

Discussion following teisho Precepts 3.

Comments on precepts 3, 5 and 9 (sex, intoxicants and anger). Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/tAjKCqb9J5WQIYSW8xi6tORmm8g

A discussion following the talk Precepts 2.

This talk covers precepts 2 and 8, which have to do with greed -- wanting stuff we don't have and clinging to stuff we already have, as well as precepts 4,6 and 7 which are to do with different aspects of right speech -- being truthful, kind and not boastful. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/3mha923rEWSTSGcdGwI4kTGSgPg

Working with spiritual poverty.

Arrival, loss and return -- the universe changes on its axis, but how to share this amazing experience with others? Searching for a context for 20 years and finally finding one. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

A turning point -- no need to look further than the mind itself. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

Flora Curtois' search for Reality, or the ground of being. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986

Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986