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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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All Episodes

15:22

Treatise on Sitting Meditation

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/10/27

As abstruse as some of these pieces sound, there are always concrete points of practice that shine through. That doesn't mean it doesn't take some real contemplation to find the hidden kernel that is just the point to spur on our practice.Read the Journal while listening

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10:43

Tsung Ching Record of Hui Hai – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/10/20

The question-and-answer format between a teacher and student is a timeless and startling tradition. The role of any true teacher is to help the student break through their illusions and awaken in the present moment to their attachments; their means of achieving this are often misunderstood.Read the Journal while listening

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8:35

Delusion and Zazen – Part 2

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/10/15

Simplicity and clarity. The above guidelines are touchstones that help us to steer through practice. To take it all a step further is finding a way to return to zazen while walking, lying down, and standing.Read the Journal while listening.

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9:44

Calming the Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/10/13

With all the journals there are always one or two sentences that jump out at us. They seem to be what the piece turns on for us here and now. This is a very ancient work, and it is interesting how much is conveyed in this excerpt.Read the Journal while listening.

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8:28

Jade Buddha Monastery

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/10/06

At times it seems like a deluded mind dominates us as past tendencies recur to test us. At some point, these become almost entertaining as they burn themselves out vying for our attention.Read the Journal while listening

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9:52

Zazen

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/09/29

Whether we think of ourselves as average, superior, or inferior students, we all share zazen as a practice, and probably for most of us we don't think of our “level” as students at all.Read the Journal while listening

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8:00

Understanding Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/09/22

Each teacher of the Way has their own style to help students break through stubborn attachments and confusion. Each master exemplifies approaches that sometimes are easy to digest and other times pull the rug out from under us. Ajahn Chah has a more gentle and matter-of-fact style using ordinary language and examples that are easy to relate to.Read the Journal while listening

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15:15

Delusion and Zazen

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/09/16

We can learn something from every teacher we meet through the journals. Some may be difficult to understand because their style seems archaic or the translator’s choice of words may lead to some confusion, but there are kernels of wisdom in every piece.Read the Journal while listening

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12:28

Investigating Chan and Comtemplating Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/09/08

For those of us who entered the doorway of Zen through “just sitting,” koan practice has always seemed a bit mysterious. Not that there isn’t a technique involved in sitting meditation but concentrating on a certain phrase or word is not part of that approach.Read the Journal while listening

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11:02

Doctrine of Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/08/25

Once again, the classic student and teacher dialogue we have all heard at one time or another. True teachers can be and should be, difficult to pin down an “answer” to questions that in reality wind up limiting us. What else, and how else could Huang Po answer?Read the Journal while listening

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10:24

The Heart of the Pine

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/08/19

The essence of Taoism and Zen emanates from the same source, and many qualities of Taoist sages sound like what you could hear from a Zen master in China. At times the dividing lines seem quite blurry.Read the Journal while listening

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10:12

Interdependence and the Middle Way

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/08/15

One of the core teachings in Buddhism is that of “co-dependent origination,” that nothing exists independently; rather, everything exists on the condition that its existence relies on all other entities. Read the Journal while listening

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9:18

The Unborn – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/08/11

Here is a refreshing and direct expression of something many of us make into a very complicated and abstruse issue. Bankei brought Zen to ordinary, everyday people along with the monks and nuns that he taught. Read the Journal while listening

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11:39

West Mountain Evening Talk – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/08/04

Ah, the patience of a good teacher resounds throughout this piece. The characters and their parts are timeless...we have all known challenging students who seem to push inappropriately, but like a highly skilled kendo master, Muso deftly answers questions that seem at times to cross the barrier of common courtesy.Read the Journal while listening

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10:20

Essentials of Mind – Part 1

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/07/28

Zen teaching is filled with enlightenment stories and koans that sound like mental gymnastics to the beginner. At times one wonders the purpose of them, other than to illustrate how futile all our striving really is. Read while listening to the Journal

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11:17

The Four Great Barriers

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/06/17

In ancient times not much was revealed about what the enlightenment experience consisted of. And since Zen is a teaching outside of words and letters, many were left to just sit.

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13:06

Secrets on Cultivating the Mind

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/06/09

Chinul was the founder of Korean Zen, and the piece above is a perfect introduction to his approach of sudden realization/gradual cultivation. Spiritual practice is full of paradoxes; to be able to hold such disparate ideas “together” is one challenge of training.Read the Journal

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11:05

No End to Practice

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/06/02

Such openness! Such a “no one special” approach to sharing the most important moments of one’s life, makes this a most charming chapter from the volume of this master’s journey to freedom. Being closer to our own time, the language is easy to fall into step with and grasp.

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9:12

West Evening Mountain Talk – Part 6

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/04/17

Some of the Zen masters may sound harsh at times; their actions can seem confounding, but for some it takes a big message to break through the attachment to self. This truly is one of the biggest hurdles we encounter in practice, so subtle as to actually fool us into thinking “ah, now I really understand at last!”

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11:04

Treatise on Contemplating Mindfulness

The Daily Zen Teisho ·

2024/04/14

What little we know of him sitting in front of the wall and not responding to Huike until he took extreme measures to show his sincerity indicates someone of profound depth and experience. When compared with other translations one wonders if the entirety of this is from him or later accruals.

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