Rochester Zen Center Teisho (zen Talks)

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 3 Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post “The Way of Korean Zen” by Kusan Sunim #3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 2 Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post “The Way of Korean Zen” by Kusan Sunim #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 1 Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post “The Way of Korean Zen” by Kusan Sunim #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

On working with habit forces and boredom. Commentary on excerpts from Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck, edited by Brenda Beck Hess (Shambhala, 2021). Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal.  Automated Transcript The post Untangling the Knots, Engaging with the Practice appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Looking for Truth in all the wrong places. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript The post Ordinary Mind is the Way, Case 19 in the Mumonkan appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

We can celebrate the 1865 Emancipation while acknowledging the enduring shackles of systemic racism and those of our own afflictions. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post Juneteenth and the Work of Ultimate Liberation appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 5 Working with spiritual poverty. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.  Transcript The post Mumonkan #10, Sozan and Poor Seizei appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 4 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. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.  Automated Transcript The post “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois #4 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 3 A turning point — no need to look further than the mind itself. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.  Automated Transcript The post “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois #3 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 2 Flora Courtois’ search for Reality, or the ground of being. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.  Automated Transcript The post “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 1 Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson.  Automated Transcript The post “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois #1 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

A look at the teacher-student relationship generally, with a focus on the implications of it at the RZC now that Roshi and John Pulleyn-sensei will both be giving dokusan and formally accepting students. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Automated Transcript The post No Teachers, No Students, Nothing To Be Taught appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

The Buddha’s Way to freedom. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript The post The Middle Way appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Roshi’s weekly podcast: Languishing and Ambivalence. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The post CoronaCast: May 11 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

May 2021 Sesshin, Day 2 Reading and commentary on excerpts from an interview with Joanna Macy that explores the Buddha’s teaching of dependent co-arising, nothing exists apart from anything else. (Source: Dharma Rain, edited by Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala Publications, 2000) Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal.  Automated Transcript The post “The Third Turning of the Wheel: A Conversation with Joanna Macy” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

May 2021 Sesshin, Day 1 Reading and commentary on excerpts from Chapter One. Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal.  Automated Transcript The post “World as Lover, World as Self” by Joanna Macy appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

The Heart Sutra (Prajna Paramita) reminds us that none of the five skandhas (constituents of personhood) have any substantiality to them. To cling to any imagined identity, then, is to invite suffering. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The post The Illusion of Human Identity appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s weekly podcast. Come On In–the Water’s Fine! Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The post CoronaCast: April 12 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

A look at one of the Buddha’s three characteristics of existence. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn. The post Impermanence appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 5 Commentary on Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The post “Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang” #2 appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.