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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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12:56

Zen Teachings of Huang Po

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/11/03

It takes a while to begin to feel comfortable with “nothing to hang onto” as some refer to the subtleties of practice. Practice is bursting with paradox, and Zen masters seem to have mastered the art of communicating the Way in a manner that often does serve to stop the mind.Read the Journal while listening

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11:14

Aspiration for Enlightenment

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/09/01

Many of us have longed at one time or another to retreat to a hermitage in the mountain wilds, to follow the way of the sages, thus shedding our distractions and focusing on a life of practice.Read the Journal while listening

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9:42

Search for the Pearl

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/07/15

There are many principles of Buddhism easily understood. For instance, any one of the Six Perfections sounds like reasonable aspirations. However, as in all spiritual traditions, there is the understanding of the householder versus the spiritual aspirant who hears another meaning.Read while you listen to the Journal

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10:49

Journal of My Study in China

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/07/08

Over the years we have shared many teaching dialogues, most often in the format of an unknown student questioning a very well know Zen Master. This is one of the most unique dialogues we have, taken from Dogen’s own journal covering his years of study in China with Master Rujing.Read the Journal

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10:40

Journal of My Study in China – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/06/30

Now if that isn't confidence-inspiring, what is? Straightforward and to the point, with no added frills or special techniques, sit on your cushion or your bench and let each thought go.Read the Journal

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13:38

Stages of Enlightenment

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/05/26

As long as there's no stopping place, even in practice, where is the need for labeling what level of enlightenment is achieved? Who is doing all this achieving anyway? The hardest practice is real life without any teacher, group, or nourishing temple to remind you of what you're doing here.

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9:17

“No Mind” Is Buddha

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/05/18

While the mirror is a familiar image used in Zen, the Platform Sutra by Hui-neng is the most famous illustration of how widely differently this idea can be taken.

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9:34

Stop Opinions

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/05/05

With any spiritual discussion, there is always a point where you just can't understand because the very faculty trying to grasp it all is standing in the way. So what do you do at that point? Relax, sit back, and know that it is there for you somehow.

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9:01

Beyond Words

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/04/28

Most of us are well aware that the truth cannot be experienced by just reading sacred writings, however, lest we swing into extremes, as we are sometimes known to do, they still have their purpose. From the very first line though, the encouragement to “stainless learning” means … what exactly?

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11:32

Questions from the Lankavatara Sutra

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/04/21

While the sutras are numerous and many have never been translated, what we do have access to can be challenging to understand. The lore surrounding the Lankavatara Sutra is that when Bodhidharma chose his successor Hui-k’o, he gave him a copy of the Lanka sutra and told him all he needed to know was in it.

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13:40

Handbook for Zen Students – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/03/31

The vast number of sutras, many of which have not been translated, are overwhelming in considering where to begin. In Cave 17 of the Dunhuang caves more than 10,000 manuscripts have been discovered well preserved during 900 years in the dark, dry cave. Given the sheer enormity of the writings in Buddhism, it makes perfect sense to have someone attempt to essentialize the essence of the teachings for their students and future generations.

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9:03

Reaching the Fundamental Ground

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/03/14

This sums up the crux of a meaningful koan for us today. How we get there is truly up to each one of us, and each person has their own unique pathway.

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14:12

The Sermon of No Words

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/03/03

Right action is one principle of the Eightfold Noble path in Buddhism. These are inspiring guidelines for a life of practice, however, lest we leave it as only pertaining to actions of “goodness,” it may leave us wondering at times what exactly is the right action in certain circumstances.

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11:44

Correct Practice

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/02/18

In this chapter on practice, Chih I covers a tremendous amount of territory. With a simple name like stop-look Zen meditation, we are introduced to a short-hand view of this technique. The straightforward reasons for practice are all ones we can relate to, and perhaps a few are a bit surprising to consider as reasons to practice meditation.

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8:22

Mind is the One Vehicle

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/02/15

We have all asked questions of a teacher and kept on asking without pausing to experience the answer. It is like having a greed for views where there is this insatiable drive to collect answers without discovering anything for oneself.

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10:28

Discourses of Master Po Shan – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/02/11

Here we have a reading that encourages us to raise this doubt mass. This term alone causes one to wonder what is this "doubt" they are talking about. Even exploring "What is it?" as a starting point is not a bad place to begin.

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9:22

Fundamental Principles

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/02/06

These are questions many practitioners also have asked when confronted with yet another initiation requiring the fulfillment of new vows. Or the thought of a complex visualization one is asked to engage in with meditation practice. With the many offshoots of Buddhism have appeared many new requirements, retreats, and prostrations.

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12:16

The Lankavatara Sutra

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/01/29

There are difficulties that rely on the faithfulness of the translators themselves and then the emphasis contemporary schools place on different aspects of Buddhism that create the unique flavor of each school.

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9:17

All Beings Are in the Process of Becoming Buddhas

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/01/22

In times like these where anger, greed, and delusion seem to have total sway over people’s consciousness, it is quite a reach to feel sincerely that all beings are in the process of becoming buddhas. The ultimate stretch of our faith in the Way is just this. However, the process is right in our own laps.

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7:55

Great Enlightenment – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/01/17

The lovely paradox of right intention in practice....who is not mystified by Great Enlightenment? And yet we are advised, the more we seek it, the more illusive it becomes. 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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