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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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8:03

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta – The First Sermon at...

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/06/22

Many times we have read or heard the stories of Buddha's life and enlightenment. Returning to his first teaching upon awakening, we come in contact with the ground and source of Buddhism. The root from which the many branches developed over the years that followed. Read the Journal while listening

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12:24

Discourse 18 Lin-Chi

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/06/19

He is not talking about a philosophy of license, anything goes in the name of the ego; when he refers to a lack of faith in ourselves, it would be easy to misunderstand. Those of us who have grown up around the “century of the self” as the West has fallen prey to thanks to marketing, have to pause and wonder, really, what is he talking about?Read the Journal while listening

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8:06

Independence

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/06/16

For many of us living life “autonomously,” not listening to what others say can feel a bit ungrounded until one has practiced enough to have gained some life experience of cause and effect. Life experience itself is a great teacher, and Nature a more subtle teacher.Read the Journal while listening

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11:20

Full Awareness of Breathing – Anapanasati Sutta

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/06/02

Many of us were introduced to meditating by breath counting at first, then moved into simply watching the breath, and then, at some point, even that fell away. There are many techniques used to focus and settle the mind and body. As “introductory” as breath counting seems, it is a very powerful way to enter the present moment.Read the Journal while listening

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10:52

Treasury of Light – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/05/25

Like the tiny green shoots bursting upward seeking the light of Spring, we too stretch to take in the light of the Dharma. If we “understand” too quickly, we can almost assuredly know our understanding is tepid, superficial, and not worthy of being called “understanding.”Read the Journal while listening

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11:20

The Formless Precepts

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/05/18

Taking refuge and making vows are not subjects we speak about in casual conversation, even with ourselves! Traditionally, we think of a formal ceremony where a teacher is initiating a group of students into the commitment of embracing Buddhism as their path.Read the Journal while listening

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8:14

A Boatload of Moonlight

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/05/15

This collection of exchanges between Yuanwu and students, teachers, lay people, men, and women offers a truly fine look and feel into an exceptional teacher’s skill in finding a way to meet each person on a common ground to help them break through barriers.Read the Journal while listening

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13:42

Eight Means to Enlightenment

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/05/11

Nowhere else have I seen this particular piece on the Buddha’s last sermon. Many of us have read the admonition to “be a lamp unto yourself” as his last words, but whether the piece above was spoken before he died doesn’t impact the fact that it really was Dogen’s last piece written before his own death.Read the Journal while listening

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9:51

Platform Sutra

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/05/04

For many of us who have not encountered that wonderful Good Friend who can help us see into our own nature, it looks like it is up to us. And there have been many people who have tried to find just that relationship, however, it is rare to find someone who has not been changed by their position of influence over others.Read the Journal while listening

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7:36

Great Enlightenment

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/28

So, out of the corner of our consciousness, we peek from time to time, wondering, even so, where exactly, and when is this Great Enlightenment? The maxim we hear in practice, “great effort, no goal” approximates the attitude of right intention. What a generous discourse on Great Enlightenment Dogen shares with us!

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12:10

Kao Feng’s Story

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/21

What a great combination of sharing some hints along the way with a grand adventure, discovering the Way.Most of us have not had the almost mythic sounding breakthrough experiences of Master Kao-feng, and as a beginner, reading these enlightenment stories seems to raise an unrealistic training yardstick to jump over.Read the Journal while listening

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12:28

A Single Handful

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/15

This is a question that will stop any of us in our tracks. After so many years of practice and studying Buddhism and Zen, what would you say best represents the heart of the teaching? Do you think of the Diamond Sutra or Platform Sutra?Read the Journal while listening

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10:15

The Record of Linji – Sangha Instruction

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/10

These selections are taken from Sangha Instructions from ancient times and give the flavor of a master wielding a sword to cut through illusions. Sparse and to the point, Linji has no tolerance for superficial approaches and glib comments from students.Read the Journal while listening

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13:12

Record of the Thatched Hall on Mount Lu

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/09

While this selection reads like a lyrical piece about a man retiring to a meditative life, and seemingly having little to do with us today, this is not a story about a recluse or one removed from ordinary concerns.Read the Journal while listening

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14:54

Mud and Water

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/04/06

In the tradition of a true Zen master, Bassui always assisted his questioners to return to the origin of inquiry itself, “Who is the one who sees, hears, and understands?”Read the Journal while listening

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9:18

The Essentials of Chan Practice

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2025/03/30

It probably doesn’t get much more essential than this piece elucidating the path of Zen practice. We all are cultivating the mind that seeks the Way and can easily accept that“Sentient beings are replete with the wisdom and virtue of buddhas; they are not two and not separated from one another.”Read the Journal while listening

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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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