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Thousand Harbours Zen

Zen Nova Scotia

Dharma talks by Koun Franz at Thousand Harbours Zen in Halifax, NS. If you find these talks beneficial, please consider joining Thousand Harbours Zen or making a donation at https://thousandharbourszen.com/support. Your support makes the practice and teachings available to others.

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17:05

ZNS 198 - Get Clear About What You Need to Do

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/09/28

A reflection on climate activist Greta Thunberg and others who have shaped their lives around a singular intention. How do we root ourselves that deeply?

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23:05

ZNS 197 - Are the Precepts Artificial?

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/09/05

On taking up a path that has boundaries that were created by people centuries ago—why do we do it, and how do we do it sincerely?

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0:20

ZNS 196 - The Three Poisons

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/08/18

The three poisons—attachment, aversion, and ignorance—and how sometimes ignorance is at the centre.

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16:09

ZNS 195 - Inspiration and the Three Pure Precepts

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/08/01

What do we need to take with us on this path? If that's different from what we want, how do we reconcile the two?

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16:36

ZNS 194 - Traps of Identity

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/07/15

There is a difference between how we address the complexity of identity in ourselves, and how we relate to it in others. The approach can't be the same.

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20:42

ZNS 193 - Actualizing the Buddha Ancestors

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/07/05

We chant, "Now, actualizing the buddha ancestors means to bring them forth and look at them respectfully. It is not limited to the buddhas of past, present, and future, but it is going beyond buddhas who are going beyond themselves." What's it all about?

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17:25

ZNS 192 - Being a Teacher, Being a Student

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/06/25

Every teacher and every temple have different ideas about the student-teacher relationship; Koun shares some of his perspective on the complexity of it all.

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21:01

ZNS 191 - A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/06/17

Bodhidharma famously described Zen as a "special transmission outside the scriptures". What does that mean and why does it matter?

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18:09

ZNS 190 - Awakening vs Awakened Activity

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/06/08

The ground of this practice isn't what we experience, or what we feel, or even what we see—it's what we do, regardless of the rest.

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19:45

ZNS 189 - Being Awake is Enough

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/05/25

We talk a lot about some experience called "awakening," but the real task is simply to be awake.

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20:03

ZNS 188 - Feeling Trapped

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/05/14

On how we work with the feeling that there's no way out of wherever we are, or whatever we're experiencing.

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22:03

ZNS 187 - We're All Sarah Connor Now

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/05/09

In the Terminator movies, Sarah Connor has the burden of knowing what's coming and having to cultivate someone who can address it. We're in the same position.

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18:19

ZNS 186 - You're Going to Lose it All

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/05/01

There isn't anything you have now that you won't eventually lose. So why not start letting go now?

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17:52

ZNS 185 - Why Do We Do Any of This?

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/04/26

Zen usually frames itself in terms of "goallessness", or at least of a practice without object. But that doesn't mean there isn't a method to it.

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16:19

ZNS 184 - The Noble Eightfold Path (8 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/04/17

The last of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Resolve.

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13:48

ZNS 183 - The Noble Eightfold Path (7 of 8) - Right View

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/04/10

The seventh of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right View.

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19:47

ZNS 182 - The Noble Eightfold Path (6 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/04/04

The sixth of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Concentration.

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16:44

ZNS 181 - The Noble Eightfold Path (5 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/03/28

The fifth of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Mindfulness.

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13:09

ZNS 180 - The Noble Eightfold Path (4 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/03/21

The fourth of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Effort.

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12:00

ZNS 179 - The Noble Eightfold Path (3 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/03/15

The third of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Livelihood.

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