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The Zen Gateway

The Zen Gateway is an online magazine on Chan/Zen Buddhism and can be found at www.thezengateway.com We feature articles on Zen, Buddhism, meditation & mindfulness. We also write about art, culture, news, reviews and lots of teachings. What"s more its all free for users with no ads etc. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter or sign up to our weekly newsletter that drops discreetly into your inbox.

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33:49

Gentling the Bull - The Poems I: Searching for the Bull

zengateway"s podcast ·

2019/09/19

In this series of talks the verses traditionally attached to the Ten Bull Herding pictures will be discussed in terms of the stages of transformation in Zen training. What do they reveal about each stage and how do they impact on our practice of working with the emotional household? 1 Alone in a vast wilderness, the herdsman searches for his bull in the tall grass. Wide flows the river, far range the mountains, and ever deeper into the wilderness goes the path. Wherever he seeks, he can find no

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29:07

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 19

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2019/09/04

Q) Why, in the scriptures, does the Buddha refer to himself as ‘I’? In the Satipatthana Sutta he says of the monk practicing mindfulness of breathing ‘I know I breathe a short breath’ etc. If he teachs the doctrine of ‘No-I’ then why does he still use the first person? ……………………………. In this podcast: Conventional and absolute truths (samvrti/ paramartha) The Doctrine of the Two Truths in early and developed Buddhism Different expressions of this truth appear in Samsara/Nirvana,

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37:17

Back to Basics: The Three Requirements of Zen Training

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2019/08/14

There are said to be three requirements for Zen training: A Great Root of Faith A Great Ball of Doubt Fierce Determination In this podcast: Faith in the teachings and the lineage, the difference between belief and faith. The Buddha’s advice to the Kalamas, fire-walking the test of faith. The problem of doubt? A pearl from an irritating grain of sand, A determination that moves mountains.

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Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 18

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2019/08/01

This month’s question, Why is it suggested that for Zen training we use a timetable? How does this work, in practice? …………………………. In this podcast: What is the timetable in Zen practice and what is it for? Living beings like structure, but how does it work? The difference between what is good for the person and personal preference. How does the timetable feed into the practice of ‘giving myself wholeheartedly’? The practice of restraint as the revealer of truths.

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35:00

Podcast: Swampland Flowers Chapter 22 - See Tathagata...

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2019/07/18

This podcast is based on an excerpt from a sermon of Master Ta Hui (jp. Daie). You can read the relevant extract here. ………………………………………. In this podcast: A short biography of Master Ta Hui The Mahayana universalises Buddha nature, making Buddhahood available for all The development of the teaching of ‘Buddha Nature’ from Tathagatagarbha. How the teaching of the Trikaya (Three Bodies of the Buddha), works in practice. The relationship between Buddha Nature and the Six Realsm on The Wheel of

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32:51

Troubleshooting Zen Study and Practice 17

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2019/07/03

This month’s question: Q) If a person has no soul, what is re-born? ……………………………. In this podcast: Discussing: soul, psyche, animus - but is this the same as ‘anatman’? The Old English notion of ‘soul’. The Wheel of Becoming as the essential teachings of the Buddha explaining how beings arise without agent or ‘do-er’ to make things happen. The principles of re-birth as rooted in doctrine of karma. The Zen koan, Master Zuigan calls to himself three times. The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of personality

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28:30

Back to Basics - The Form

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2019/06/19

Continuing the discussion on the fundamentals of Zen training, this podcast examines the importance of ‘form’ in practice. ……………………… In this podcast: The two types of form - personal form and the form of places and situations The universality of form amongst different species and how it aids in living in-form. Sokei-an and the shape of meditation - how form gives dignity and collects the heart. The form in behaviour - how to set up a timetable and why? Suggestions for practicing ‘good

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30:17

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 16

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2019/06/05

Would you talk about how people experience transitions of awareness in sitting meditation and in daily life practice? The document referenced in this podcast is: What is it like to meditate? Methods and issues of a micro-phenomenological description of meditative experience - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr An online version of this document is here. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01653495/document ……………………………. In this podcast: How can science talk consistently about human experience from

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32:32

Zen Practice: Back to Basics

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2019/05/25

In this podcast we feature a timely reminder of just what it is that constitutes a ‘Zen Buddhist Practice. Including: The importance of every-minute Zen practice. How the body is the focus of practice and keeps us present in the here-and-now. The Six Paramitas as the basis of Mahayana practice. The connection between living in the body and insight practice. The transformational power of the emotions and beginning to work with the ‘fires’.

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29:23

Path Stumblings; A talk by Bruce Ginsberg

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2019/05/15

Bruce Ginsberg has been a Zen practitioner for over 50 years. Originally from South Africa he traveled as a journalist to Japan in the late 1960s to ‘get closer’ to the Zen tradition that so fascinated the counter-culture of the 1950s & 60s. He spent time as a layman in Zen monasteries in Korea as well as Japan. He came to the U.K. in the 1970s and took over the running of ‘Dragonfly Tea’ a family owned British tea company. He has been involved in British Buddhism ever since and is also involved

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Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 15

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2019/05/07

Our question this time is: Are there dangers to practicing meditation or mindfulness? ……………………………. In this podcast: The view of meditation in earlier years in the U.K. compared with now. Meditation without a supporting daily life practice that includes working with the emotional household. A personal story. Beginning a daily life practice and then incorporating sitting meditation (zazen). Sitting for longer, retreats (sesshins) and silence. The support provided in group sitting.

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35:27

Records of the Transmission of the Lamp vol. 6 Tendai...

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2019/05/02

The Second Talk: The master ascended the hall and a monk present asked, ‘A teaching has come down which says that the return to the source and original nature are not two, but that there are many entrances through the skill of means. What is it to return to the source and original nature?’ ‘You question, I answer,’ replied the master. ‘But what does it mean, by entrance through skill of means?’ ‘You answer, I question,’ replied the master. ‘Where will this lead to?’ ‘Why turn everything

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29:07

Easter Essay 2019

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2019/04/16

“In the landscape of Spring there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow, both long or short.” Ryokan ( 1758-1831) ………………………………… In this podcast: The opposites in Chinese thought, YinYang etc. The Sixth patriarch’s advice to his senior students. Ven. Myokyo-ni’s comment on Ryokan’s poem above. The burning of Notre Dame and how the fire at York Minster was interpreted. The Environmental protests currently taking place and the changing way we view our world. The shift from

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29:48

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 14

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2019/04/09

Q) As the Buddha taught the doctrine of ‘No-I’, who decides? …………………………………… In this podcast: In a life without an ‘I’, how can any decisions be made? How can things happen in a human life without any desires to make them so? The question of ‘agency’ in Buddhist teachings. What does neuroscience have to say about the existence of a self as the centre of decision-making? The differing conceptions of purposelessness in Chinese thought and European rationalism. What is ‘Tao’ and the connection

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42:29

Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp [13]

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2019/03/27

DAIBI COMMENT: Master Torei was born in 1720 at Kanzaki in Goshu. His family name was Nakamura. He left home when he was nine, and received ordination from Ryozan Osho [1] at the local temple. At the age of seventeen he went to Nikko and trained under Kogetsu Osho; later he continued under Suigan Osho. After that he spent three years as a wandering monk in Kyushu but attained nothing and finally he returned home and lived for two years in retreat on Renge Peak. He gained entrance when he was

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Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 13

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2019/03/12

I’m having real problems coming to terms with the doctrine of karma and past lives. Yet, I’m told that it is central to Buddhist teachings. How can this be reconciled with a more materialist world-view. … In this episode: A brief history of materialism How the Buddha re-interpreted the teachings of Hinduism to give a Buddhist twist. How the Buddha had to re-define agency having declared ‘No-I’ (Anatman). Does it matter if we derive interpretations that did not exist directly from the Buddha

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39:31

Torei 12: Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp

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2019/02/27

TOREI X: Turning the Wheel of the Dharma is the beginning and end of the whole training. With this aspiration one starts giving one’s whole heart to the training; with one’s heart in it, one does it. Depending on it, one looks for the wonder-arousing, mysterious state behind the differentiations. That attained, the transformation of one’s life has been completed. One grasps the fangs and claws of the Dharma-cave, and without let or hindrance freely walks the way of the gods, entering the coarse and

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34:17

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice

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2019/02/13

This time: I’ve heard Buddhism described as a ‘non-theistic’ religion. How is this different from atheism? How does one deal with stress mindfully? In this podcast: What is the difference between ‘mind’ and ‘Mind’? Is Buddhism really a religion and does it have a concept of the divine? Why do Hindu gods appear in the Pali Canon? Are there methods to help combat stress and anxiety in Buddhism? How pain and suffering cuts us off from life and those around us. How can a practice of gratitude

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34:41

Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp [11]

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2019/01/23

TOREI IX: Now whether withdrawn on a mountain, or retired in a city, or whatever, the essential thing is the long maturation. For this, it is good to keep the examples of the old masters in mind, or we shall be pulled back into the dust and delusion of the world. DAIBI COMMENT: The ninth chapter deals with maturation - the long maturation of the holy heart. When the training has come to an end [1], this maturation is of utmost importance. Whether it takes place in remote mountains or in a crowded

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