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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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26:14

Put the Heart at Rest

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/09/07

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31:47

What do I really want?

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/06/25

In this podcast: The Grimm’s fairy tale of Lucky Hans Why is our heart so restless - an experiment The Buddha’s diagnosis of this restlessness The estrangement of the Heart as cause - what the Buddha said on his awakening The false self and the True Nature of the Heart.

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34:25

Shishi and the Knife

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/06/11

One day, while wondering in the mountains, Shi Tou said to Shishi, "‘just lop off that branch of the tree in front of me - its hindering me” "I didn’ t bring a knife”,’replied Shishi.’ Shi Tou pulled out a knife and gave it Shishi. "Why not let this come to me?’"said Shishi. "What would you use it for?’"asked Shi Tou. Then Shi Tou had a great awakening.

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33:24

Troubleshooting 54

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/06/04

Q) Will you say something about the different types of bells and signals used in Zen? … In this podcast: • The use of clappers and inken in Zazen • The use of the gong for the turning over of merit for the benefit of all beings • Using the myokugyo or wooden fish for chanting along with the inken • The temple bell • The wake-up bell or drum/clap board • Some symbolism surrounding the use of bells and their connection with banishing evil spirits (108

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33:11

Bai Jiyu and Jingzhao Discuss Opposites and the...

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2023/05/21

In this podcast we look at how the Chan/Zen school arose in response to the complicated philosophy that had developed around Mahayana Buddhism that threatened to draw people away from the experience of ones own insight. However there is a place for the teachings in Zen, as this discourse makes clear all skilful means are used to bring students to Awakening. The talk also looks at how the influence of Taoism impacted on the development of Chan/Zen to the Chinese mind. This podcast is copyright to The

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32:59

The Buddha is a Privy Hole!

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2023/05/07

38. Followers of the Way, do not take the Buddha for the supreme aim. I myself see him as a privy hole, and the Bodhisattvas and Arhats as beings who bind men with cangue and chains. This is why Manjushri grasped the sword to kill Gautama, and Anguilimalya took the knife to assassinate Shaka. Followers of the Way, Buddha is not to be attained. The Three Vehicles and the Five Natures, as well as the Complete and Sudden Teachings are only traces. All are but expedient means temporary remedies for

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21:32

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 53

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/04/16

Q) What is ‘Heart-to-Heart Transmission’? … In this podcast: • Bodhidhdarma’s Four Line Verse • The Buddha transmits the lineage to Mahakasyapa • Rinzai’s ‘Not much to Obaku’s teaching’. • How poetry works • Transmitting the lineage

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29:48

The Tricky Relationship between Practice & Insight

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2023/04/02

Venerable ones, I cannot these days cease from using a lot of words, and come out preaching many inept things. But do not let yourselves be deceived! As I see it, there are not really so many principles. If you want to act, just act; and if you do not want to act, then rest. It is said that the Six Paramitas and the ten-thousand practices are the Buddha-Dharma. I say they are both methods for spiritual adornment and for carrying on the Buddha’s work; they are not the Buddha Dharma. (The Zen Teaching

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34:07

The Great Way is not Difficult

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2023/03/12

“The Great Way is not difficult, It merely avoids picking and choosing.” On Faith in the Heart by Master Sosan, tr. Myokyo-ni … In this talk: • Sosan is 3rd Patriarch receiving the Transmission from Eka. • What is The Great Way and why is it important? • What is picking and choosing? • Why does picking and choosing make following The Great Way difficult?

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34:02

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 52

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/02/26

Q) As a complete beginner to Zen, can you give me some tips for starting a Zen practice? … In this podcast: • The three pillars of daily life practice, meditation practice & wisdom practice. • The root practice of giving myself wholeheartedly into whatever is just now being done, supported by ethical and cultural form practice. • Cultivating a meditation practice daily • Study of the Buddha’s teachings - finding a middle way between study and practice - the 3-fold wisdom.

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35:03

Nothing Further To Seek is Attaining the Dharma

zengateway"s podcast ·

2023/02/05

One monk asked: “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West? The master said: “Had he had a purpose, he could not even have liberated himself.” The monk asked: “If he had no purpose, how could the Second Patriarch attain the Dharma?” The master said: “To attain is not to attain.” The monk asked: “If it is not to attain, then what is the meaning of not to attain?” The master said: “It is because you are running about seeking everywhere and cannot put your heart at rest that the

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36:01

Throwing oneself into fire to avoid being drowned

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2022/12/11

Master Yoka cautions: ‘Getting rid of things and clinging to emptiness are the same illness. It is like throwing oneself into fire to avoid being drowned.’ (The Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Imrgard Schloegl) … In this podcast: The Buddha’s first teaching of the middle way. The problem of the five ascetics What happens when ‘I’ give up smoking? Some advice on ‘giving up’ - don’t (TL advice to a smoker) Giving myself into Zen practice; the practice brings about the transformation

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32:02

Daito Kokushi's Admonition

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/11/24

National Teacher Daito (1283-1338) founded the monastery of Daitokuji in Kyoto and Rinzai Zen Training monastery. Before his death he gave his admonition to his monk which gives the essence of his teaching and points to just that which is most important for the training of his monks. The full text can be found here. This Dharma talk includes: The importance of both physical as well as spiritual wellbeing. How form and discipline encourages us to practice letting-go and going with the flow. How the

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30:36

Rinzai’s Neither Outside nor Inside

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/11/20

Followers of the Way, when I say that there is no Dharma outside, the students do not understand and deduce it is necessary to search within themselves. Then they sit, leaning against a wall, tongue pressed to the upper palate, and remain so motionless. That they take for the patriarch’s gate of the Buddha-Dharma. What a great error! (The Zen Teaching of Rinzai; tr. Irmgard Schloegl, pub. Shambhala 1975) ………………………. In this podcast: What is Dharma? Mumon’s treasures of the house v. Hogan’s ‘Is that

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44:50

Just Be Your Ordinary Selves

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2022/10/16

“As I see it, there is nothing complicated. Just be your ordinary selves in an ordinary life, wear your robes and eat your food and having nothing further to seek, peacefully pass your time. From everywhere you have come here; all of you eagerly seek the Buddha, the Dharma and deliverance; you seek escape from the Three Worlds. You foolish people, if you want to get out of the Three Worlds, where then can you go?” The Zen Teaching of Rinzai tr. by Irmgard Schloegl ………. In this podcast: Some

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40:56

The Knower, The God of Buddhism

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/09/17

The God of Buddhism is the god of wisdom. In Buddhism, the Buddha means one who knows, the knower. One who knows one’s own wisdom is Buddha. Our eyes, which have the faculty of seeing; our ears, which have the faculty of hearing; our other senses - smell, taste, touch - are all manifestations of the power of knowing. So our sense organs are the eyes of Buddha. Every one of us is Buddha. However, Mr. So-and-so is not Buddha, but our ‘persons’ are Buddha. … The Buddhist believes in a pantheistic god

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36:44

Bankei’s ‘Unborn’

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/08/13

The unborn Buddha-mind deals freely and spontaneously with anything that presents itself to it. But if something should happen to make you change the Buddha-mind into thought, then you run into trouble and lose that freedom. Let me give you an example. Suppose a woman is engaged in sewing something. A friend enters the room and begins speaking to her. As long as she listens to her friend and sews in the Unborn, she has no trouble doing both. But if she gives her attention to her friend's words and a

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33:54

Who's Song do you Sing?

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/07/03

In this podcast: The language of religion and how different schools of Buddhism teach. The importance of the lineage (Master Sesso) The Heart-Buddha is the source of the teachings which only appear to come from outside. The story of Rinzai’s own awakening Avoiding the stink of Zen; Joshu’s ‘Mu & Uu’.

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25:36

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 46

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/06/27

As we enter the holiday period, I recall that you talked about setting aside the Zen practice for a while. Why is that a useful thing to do? What happens if I find it difficult to re-start the practice after the holiday is over? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, In this podcast: The value of taking a break from the timetable and regular practice - 2 types of student Using common sense Why things become ‘chores’ and why the practice becomes a duty rather than a support. Returning to the practice after the

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37:36

The Seed Shop

zengateway"s podcast ·

2022/06/04

Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry - Meadows and gardens running through my hand. In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams, A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust; It will drink deeply of a century’s streams, These lilies shall make summer on my dust. Here in their safe and simple house of death, Sealed in their shells a million roses leap, Here I can blow a garden with my breath, And in my hand a

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