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The Daily Zen Teisho

Daily Zen has been a contemplative haven for online visitors since 1998 offering a unique blend of Eastern quotes for each day of the year, Zen-inspired e-cards, and a meditation room where at any moment a visitor may be meditating with any one of our companion Wayfarers each day. The Journal, called On the Way, is published once a month and this podcast has been created to turn those Journals into an auditory experience allowing listeners to contemplate its ideas in another way.

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12:23

True Realization – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/23

Sometimes it’s hard to know when to stop; other times you just have to stop somewhere to reorient yourself or you get lost. However, when it comes to following the Way, there is really no resting place. In this piece, we bring up a sensitive topic in training: getting one’s realization verified by a teacher respected and trusted to do just that service. Read the Journal while listening

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9:31

Shodoka – Song of Enlightenment

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/17

There are several translations of the Shodoka, and this is just the beginning of a very long poem translated as Song of Realization of the Way. With a commentary and translation by Nyogen Senzaki, it’s as if we are listening to two teachers, as it was intended to help his own students understand the depths of Yoka-daishi’s message.Read the Journal while listening

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11:38

Passing Through Barriers

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/14

Like a good friend attempting to warn us of a hole we’re about to step into or a cliff we’re about to fall off of, Torei offers very practical advice for us. Who hasn’t known someone who disdains the study of sutras as examples of dogma and practiced their own version of Ma-tsu’s “everyday Mind is the Way?”Read the Journal while listening

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9:38

Concentration and Wisdom are One Essence

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/09

The beauty of Buddhism is that no matter where we are in our understanding, we are given a way to proceed. We are also given instructions that depend on our own efforts, not someone else’s. With most of us not living in monasteries, we face the task of bringing these principles alive in our daily lives.Read the Journal while listening

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9:03

A Boatload of Moonlight – Letters of Yuanwu

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/02

Yuanwu is best known for the very well-known collection of 100 public cases, The Blue Cliff Record, which in reality consists of notes taken from lectures he gave to his students who collected their notes and printed them out as block prints. Read the Journal while listening

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10:38

Transmission of Mind – Mind is the Buddha – Part 11

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/02/25

When the vastness of the experience of our true nature seems simply beyond comprehension, similar to when we try to “grasp” a sense of the expanding universe or infinity, it is reassuring to remember it’s always there whether we are aware of it or not.Read the Journal while listening

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8:42

The Mirror of Zen – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/02/17

This is a topic we have discussed often, but it can’t be emphasized enough as it is easy to fall into the trap of confusing intellectual understanding with the complete turnaround of realization. With the concern for direct apprehension beyond words and letters, all too often a goal-oriented mindset can take over early in practice.Read the Journal while Listening

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12:58

West Mountain Evening Talk – Part 5

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/02/02

There are countless schools of Zen and Buddhism, each offering their own entry into practice. Koan practice or “just sitting” practice appeals to different people’s sensibilities, but any practice can fall into extremes of spiritual “one-up-manship.”Read the Journal while listening

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9:51

Silent Illumination

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/01/26

We can all appreciate the straightforwardness of Sheng Yen, and since he is closer to our own place in time, we know he had an understanding of our world. Even though the human situation is the same no matter the time we find ourselves, sometimes the translation can interfere with understanding.Read the Journal while listening

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7:08

The Mirror of Zen – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/01/19

This is a unique gift as you can see in the introduction above. A Zen master from hundreds of years ago has essentialized what he sees as the heart of the sutras and Zen for us “practitioners in the future.” How many times have some of us attempted to read one of the sutras and just felt overwhelmed by the language, the images, and the searching for the essence of the teaching?Read the Journal while listening

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5:58

Awakening

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/01/15

Most of the stories of the Buddha’s life are told in a very different manner. Speaking in the first person here brings a freshness to his journey, and starting at the beginning is sometimes just right for the beginning of the year.Read the Journal while listening

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9:47

The Mirror of Zen – Part 3

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/01/05

We can really see in this concluding piece the essence of volumes from So Sahn’s own practice, quite an aspiration to bring to life. Each chapter/paragraph delivers a clarity that deserves contemplation. Read the Journal while listening

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10:54

The Threefold Question in Zen

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/29

These two selections seem to stretch the boundaries a bit. They almost seem to contradict each other, but such is the flavor of different teachers. In reality, they are talking about the same phenomenon, something so natural to who we are and how we function when we don’t complicate things, it is easy to overlook it. And, in fact, is a challenge for us.Read the Journal while listening

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11:36

Same Reality, Different Dreams

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/22

Being students of the Way, naturally, we seek places to begin and signposts of which way to continue. There may be teachers we study with for years; we may have years of disillusionment, and then there may be years we are on our own. Read the Journal while listening

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8:46

Records of the Source Mirror – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/16

Since there are sutras too numerous to count, Yanshou is taking the gems from many of them to help essentialize the heart of Buddhism.Read the Journal while listening

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8:27

Records of the Source Mirror

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/08

This excerpt is scratching the surface of a work consisting of 100 fasicles; the above being only part of the first fasicle and the only one in translation at this point. Even in this brief glimpse, one can get a sense of the intention behind the work.Read the Journal while listening

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15:18

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/01

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross-legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.Read while listening to the Journal

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20:06

Idle Talk on a Night Boat

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/12/01

his classic story from the history of Zen is an excellent example of the lengths some have taken to explore meditation, the results that can happen when someone goes too far in overzealous attempts, and the commitment it takes to extricate oneself and return to a more middle way of practice. Read the Journal while listening

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16:45

Notes on Meditation

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/11/24

How much of what we know has been discovered firsthand by us? If you are honest, most of what we know has been handed down by others and rarely questioned. Even the traditional teacher/student relationship often engenders passivity; like baby birds with beaks open, we wait for the next tidbit of understanding to arrive.Read the Journal while listening

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11:54

Convention and Liberation

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/11/18

There is a point in training where we feel like we are living in two separate worlds – the conventional reality or culture and our world of practice. In the beginning, we establish our meditation practice routine and strive for continuity. As we mature in practice we realize we need to take that calm and centered experience off the cushion and into daily life.Read the Journal while listening

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