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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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0:07

ZNS 178 - The Noble Eightfold Path (2 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/03/07

The second of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Action.

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15:07

ZNS 177 - The Noble Eightfold Path (1 of 8) - Right...

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/02/29

The first of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Speech.

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14:23

ZNS 176 - Proper Care and Feeding of Delusions

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/02/23

We don't just get rid of delusions, as much as we may want to. So how do we treat them?

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14:37

ZNS 175 - No Hope, No Despair

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/02/15

Hope and despair both come from the same place — no need to trust either one.

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22:48

ZNS 174 - The Emotions You Think You Don't Want

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/02/08

How do we deal with panic, fear, sadness, anger? Buddhism isn't therapy—it doesn't take any of it away. But it does raise some worthwhile questions about how we feel, and about how we feel about how we feel.

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17:16

ZNS 173 - When Arrow Points Meet

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/02/01

In both "Precious Mirror Samadhi" and "Harmony of Difference and Equality," there are references to arrow points meeting. This is how it works.

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16:31

ZNS 172 - Compassion

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/01/25

Zen traditionally doesn't talk so much about compassion, yet we chant about it a lot. What are we chanting about? Why?

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11:45

ZNS 171 - You're Holding It All

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/01/18

Zazen as a moment of silence in which we just hold everything. We're doing it already, but we can also choose to.

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8:10

ZNS 170 - What Practice Is and Isn't

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/01/12

We have a tendency to take ordinary activities like walking, insert a spiritual feeling, and call it "walking practice." But what this tradition asks us to explore is dharmic activity, which is not the same thing.

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13:56

ZNS 169 - You Don't Know What This Moment Offers

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2020/01/04

Zen practice is outside of any measurement—it's not a place where you can succeed or fail. So how to proceed?

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14:46

ZNS 168 - Resolve - Just Don't Move

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/12/27

What is at the core of resolve? We think of it as a decision to do something, but we can also understand it as a choice to plant ourselves where we are.

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10:25

ZNS 167 - Opening the Eyes of the Buddha

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/12/21

Following an eye-opening ceremony at ZNS's new location, a discussion of how we see the Buddha, and how buddhas see.

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20:28

ZNS 166 - You'll Never Get it Right

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/12/14

How do we commit to doing our best while honestly confronting the impossibility of getting it just right?

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24:04

ZNS 165 - Listen With This Attitude

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/12/06

From Dogen's Zuimonki 6-17: "Forget not only the different views on the dharma, but also worldly affairs, and hunger and cold as well... When you listen with this attitude, you will be able to clarify the truth and resolve your questions."

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22:21

ZNS 164 - Bodhidharma

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/11/30

On the legend and legacy of Bodhidharma, the first Zen ancestor in China.

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15:59

ZNS 163 - Let Go of Inspiration

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/11/23

We all want to be inspired, but inspiration can only get us so far. What do we feel, beyond inspiration, that drives us?

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20:06

ZNS 162 - Reality is a Fabrication

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/11/16

We know there's delusion, but what do we think we see if we see completely past delusion? Layer after layer, it's still our own creation. What do we do with that?

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56:21

ZNS 161 - Why Do We Practice?

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/11/10

Why do we practice? Why do we gather in this way, sit in this way? Why do any of it? It starts with not knowing why.

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17:43

ZNS 160 - How Not to Hold the Precepts

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/11/03

How we hold the precepts and what we might get wrong.

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14:32

ZNS 159 - No Need to Get Unstuck

Thousand Harbours Zen ·

2019/10/25

On Buddhism, plateaus, and the idea that there are tools we can use to progress in the practice.

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