Practice
Dharma Talk: All One Vehicle
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
Roshi talks about what his Vietnamese Master, the Most Venerable H.T. Thich Thien An called the “Buddhayana,” the Buddha Vehicle.
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Dharma Talk: Just Do It
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
Roshi calls this talk, “Just Do It.”
Don’t think about it.
Just listen.
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Dharma Talk: Right Speech
Monday, November 5th, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
October 28, 2012: Su Co’s talk on Right Speech (Pali: samma-vaca), which is the third “step” on the Noble Eight-Fold Path (the first “level” of the section of Ethical Conduct). “Step” and “level” are in quotes because it’s only too easy to look at the list as sequential and/or hierarchical. While that is one way of approaching the practice (we’ve got to start somewhere!), as with many of the Buddha’s teachings, we find many things happening concurrently and we build our understanding/actions up, down, skipping around. However, if you step off the Path, you will certainly find one think/thing leads to another…
Note: The website with targeted behavior modification (Su Co does have some of the nifty violet wristbands to give out, if you want to try it) mentioned in the talk is www.aComplaintFreeWorld.org.
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Dharma Talk: Maha Moggallana / Ullambana
Monday, September 10th, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
September 9, 2012: Su Co tells the story of Kolita Mogallana (Sankrit: Maha Maudgalyayana, Vietnamese: Muc Kien Lien), one of the Buddha’s great Arahant Disciples, who provided the impetus for the Ullambana Ceremony we celebrate each year (Vietnamese: Vu Lan).
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3-part Dharma Talk: It’s Not About Enlightenment
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
In July and August 2012, Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng gave three Dharma Talks related to Enlightenment/Nirvana and a question, “What did Dogen mean when he said, ‘You have to die in Zazen’?”
Part 1: It’s not about Enlightenment (Unfortunately, the degraded memory card — now retired and little-mourned — affected the recording of the first of the three talks.
While we see if anything from that talk is save-able, see if #2 and #3 make any sense…)
Part 2: Dying in Zazen
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Part 3: Great Death
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Dharma Talk: Basic Buddhism – Impermanence
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
September 2, 2012: Thích Ân Giáo Roshi addresses one of the most often discussed, yet commonly misunderstood Buddhist teachings — Impermanence — in the context of his ever-changing, but ongoing health issues. If you’ve ever wondered just what the Buddha and the old Masters had in mind when assigning bodily impurity or charnel ground meditations, this is the talk for you.
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Dharma Talk: “Just Float”
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
End of August, 2012: Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng and the ocean/water metaphor…
(Sorry the sound quality is so shaky. That memory card has been retired.)
Info on the movie, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, can be found here at IMDb.
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Dharma Talk: Perfection (Precepts)
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
What is perfection? Thích Ân Giáo Roshi encourages us to let go of preconceptions and find out for ourselves, using the Precepts as guidelines.
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Dharma Talk: Incense
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
“Why do we light incense?”
Thoughts, reasons and traditions, by Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng.
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Dharma Talks: Precepts and Repentance
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
In these two Dharma Talks, given several months apart, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi discusses the Five Pure Precepts and our end-of-the-month ceremony of Reaffirming the Precepts.
Links to the chant book: REAFFIRMING THE PRECEPTS (to read in separate window) or to download your own copy of the chant book in RTF, click here.
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#1 2011 Rains Season Training & the Repentance Ceremony (including the poem): here and
#2 2012 Reaffirming Precepts in the New Year here