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Dharma Talk: Is That So?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
A Dharma Talk on the great Master Hakuin Ekaku, who revitalized the Rinzai School of Japan.
From Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, edited by Paul Reps:
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near Hakuin. One day, without any warning, her parents discovered she was pregnant. This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. “Is that so?” was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the child needed.
A year later the girl could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth – the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fish market.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.
Hakuin willingly yielded the child, saying only: “Is that so?”
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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: 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 Talk: Suffering Fools
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
We say, “He doesn’t suffer fools gladly,” but it does not mean what we think it means — particularly if we are Buddhist. Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng talks about the practice.
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Dharma Talk: Revisiting Gratitude
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
On Mother’s Day, 2012, Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng revisited gratitude (the sequel to Being Grateful for Everything).
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Dharma Talk: Bowing Heart
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Thích N? Tâm H??ng | No Comments
A meditation on the theory and practice of bows and prostrations, by Su Co Tâm Hu’o’ng. (and encouragement to give the practice a try, especially if one is… shall we say… “resistant” ??)
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Dharma Talk: Sin
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Rev. Nagacitta, Thich Minh Nhat | No Comments
Very Venerable T.T. Thích Minh Nhat talks about Sin and Buddhism.
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Dharma Talk: Each Is a Book
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Rev. Nagacitta, Thich Minh Nhat | No Comments
Very Venerable T.T. Thích Minh Nhat challenges us to check out the Sangha library, our own library, all contained within the book that is each of us.
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Dharma Talk: Five Things You Cannot Change
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 | Audio, Rev. Nagacitta, Thich Minh Nhat | No Comments
The Very Venerable T.T. Thích Minh Nhat revisits “givens” and our inability to change certain things in our lives.
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Dharma Talk: The Oak Tree in the Front Courtyard
Friday, June 1st, 2012 | Audio, Thích Ân Giáo Roshi | No Comments
Who are you? Roshi sheds light on the “mysteries” of Zen encounter dialog.
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The Rose Bush in the Front Courtyard - photo by Susan Chacon