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Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks

Taishin Michael Augustin

Reflections on Buddhist teachings and the intersection of Buddhism and Recovery hoantaishin.substack.com

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Constancy, Bliss, Self, and Purity

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/05

Yesterday, I offered a Dharma talk to the No Barriers Zen sangha. You can learn about us here and listen to a recording of the talk by pressing the Play Button above. A video recording, complete with captions and live interpretation in ASL, will be available in the future.The centerpiece of the talk are the opening lines of Hongzhi Zhengjue’s poem, “Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss.” Specifically, the couplet that reads:[The Way's] purity is constant,its bliss is myself.I reproduce the poem in

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35:16

Steeped In Moonlight

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/19

This morning, I had the pleasure of offering a Dharma Talk to the No Barriers Zen sangha—my sangha. I’m grateful for the opportunity, and humbled by everyone’s attentive presence and thoughtful comments and questions.The talk centers on the practice of zazen (seated meditation), “choppy waves,” how we can navigate them, and what we might find along the way. Part playful and part serious, I speak from my experience and encourage reconnecting with our bodies, all while pointing toward great trust in

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36:07

Mahakasyapa Transmits To Mahakasyapa

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/30

The following is an approximate transcript of a Dharma talk that I offered on Saturday, July 27th, during O-An Zendo’s Udumbara Sesshin. You can also listen to a live recording.Enjoy.Almost one year ago, I sat in this seat and offered a Dharma talk on the topic of the transmission of the teachings. Specifically, I spoke about the first transmission of the Dharma from Shakyamuni Buddha to Mahakasyapa and began with an excerpt from Dogen’s Shobogenzo Menju (Face-To-Face Transmission). Since that talk

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35:46

The Bodhisattva's Vows

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/16

The following is an approximate transcript of the Dharma Talk I delivered as part of O-An Zendo’s Sunday Program on July 14th, 2024. You can also listen to a live recording of the talk.Enjoy.Good morning. Thank you for being here and for continuing to participate in the great effort together. As we begin, I ask two things of you. First, please remember this line from Hsin Hsin Ming (Song Of Trusting Mind):Don’t get tangled in the world, don’t lose yourself in emptiness.Second, please wiggle in your

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26:49

Refraining From

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/18

The following is an approximate transcript of the Dharma Talk I offered on June 16th as part of O-An Zendo’s Sunday program. You can also listen to a live recording.Enjoy.Last week, we explored one way of relating to the precepts. As a way of complementing Roshi’s admonishment to “forget the precepts,” I suggested that we can also see the precepts as “invitations to exploration.” I said asking questions is part of being a Zen practitioner. We also looked at the precept that encourages supporting

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30:32

Zen Questions

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/11

The following is an approximate transcript of the Dharma Talk I offer on Sunday, June 9th, as part of O-An Zendo’s Sunday program. You can also listen to a live recording of the talk. Enjoy.Precepts—that is what I want us to explore this morning. What are the precepts? How do we work with the precepts? How do we incorporate them into daily practice and our everyday lives?Roshi offered one response to these questions in her talk last Sunday. (You can listen to that talk here.) She spoke about

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27:15

Offering Sand To The Buddha

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/05/07

Below is an approximate transcript of the Dharma Talk I gave on May 5th as part of O-An Zendo’s Sunday program. You can read the transcript or listen to the live recording.Thank you for listening, reading, and supporting. I bow with gratitude.Two weeks ago, I spoke about the “essential art of zazen [seated meditation]” and kin hin (walking meditation), a companion to our sitting practice. I said that kin hin is an opportunity to “walk our zazen around the room” and that, with a bit of practice, we

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35:12

Master Mayu Waves His Fan

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/04/23

O-An Zendo, the small Sōtō Zen temple where I live, practice, and serve the local community, resumed in-person gatherings last week. This change in the temple’s activities, mostly on Sundays, also changes my activities. Notably, I once more serve as the Doshi (Officiant) roughly every other week during our Sunday program and offer the Dharma Talk.Zen temples, Buddhist temples, and Dharma Centers are generally structured in specific ways, both in their presentation and in the forms of conduct

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28:23

Dharma Talk: The Promise Of You

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/04/13

A new Dharma Talk is now available. The title is “The Promise Of You.”The offering was given on Saturday, April 6th, as a Dharma Talk during O-An Zendo’s Vesak Sesshin. The centerpiece is a passage from Dōgen Zenji’s Genjōkōan, which encourages us to think differently about how events in our lives relate to each other and about the past and future generally.I close the talk with the reminder that all of us are necessarily free and liberated, that the promise of our lives is never lost but renewed in

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11:36

Step Five: Part Three

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/08

From February 10 - 17, I will be away on a solo retreat at the Center of Solitude in Belmont, NY. There will be no posts during that time. Thank you for understanding.Also, I’m trying out article voiceovers. All thoughts welcome.This week our time with Step Five comes to a close, at least for now. (I anticipate revisiting these first efforts to articulate my understanding of the Twelve Steps from a Buddhist perspective in the future.) It’s a challenging thing to write out on paper—or type into a

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12:08

Trusting Others

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/06

Note: From February 10 - 17, I will be away on a solo retreat at the Center of Solitude in Belmont, NY. There will be no posts during that time. Thank you for understanding.There is a collection of stories in the Pāli Canon in which the Buddha discourages “blind faith” in himself and his teachings (and any other religious or spiritual teacher and their teachings too). Instead, the Buddha outlines methods by which claims to perfect enlightenment and true teachings may be investigated and tested, and

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39:21

Dharma Talk: Rebirth and Recovery

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2024/01/25

For this week’s Buddhism and recovery post, I thought to share an older Dharma Talk. I’m steadily approaching my second sobriety birthday; it seems appropriate to revisit where I was roughly one year and three or four months ago. Also, I spent the last two days driving across a large section of the United States. There was very little time to write!The Dharma Talk offered here presents my recovery journey prior to and including about eight months of enduring sobriety. It appears as but one entry in

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29:45

Dharma Talk: Limitless, Ceaseless Trust

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2023/12/25

For my second-to-last post of the year, I’m sharing the Dharma Talk that I offered during O-An Zendo’s O-Bon Sesshin. This is also the talk that I offered the day before Shukke Tokudo, Novice Priest Ordination.As the talk’s title indicates, the focus is Trust—trust in oneself, trust in the Dharma, and trust in the universe. Trust has been at the center of my practice for the last couple of years, and I suspect that it will continue to sit there (and I with it) for many more. Enjoy!The Hut by Taishin

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25:18

Dharma Talk: Roethke's Auction, Siddhartha's Awakening

Hōan Taishin"s Dharma Talks ·

2023/12/11

Today I am sharing the Dharma Talk that I offered during O-An Zendo’s Rōhatsu Sesshin. “Rōhatsu” is one of the terms used for an assembly on the occasion of Shakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment. Every year, Buddhists, the Buddha-curious, and spiritual practitioners generally gather to practice and celebrate what is otherwise called “Bodhi Day,” and marks the turning of the Dharma Wheel in this world.The Hut by Taishin Michael Augustin is a reader-supported publication. Consider supporting my practice

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