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The Zen Gateway

The Zen Gateway is an online magazine on Chan/Zen Buddhism and can be found at www.thezengateway.com We feature articles on Zen, Buddhism, meditation & mindfulness. We also write about art, culture, news, reviews and lots of teachings. What"s more its all free for users with no ads etc. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter or sign up to our weekly newsletter that drops discreetly into your inbox.

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34:57

Rinzai's Five Heinous Crimes

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2025/10/10

36. Venerable ones, committing the Five Heinous Crimes, deliverance can be attained. One monk asked: “What are the Five Heinous Crimes?” The master said: “To kill the father, to harm the mother, to spill Buddha’s blood, to break the peace of the Sangha, and to burn scriptures and statues, these are the Five Heinous Crimes.” The monk asked: “What is the father?” The master said: “Basic ignorance is the father. In the concentrated heart you cannot find the place of arising or ceasing. Like the

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28:01

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice: The Repentance...

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2025/08/25

‘All the evil Karma created by me from of old, Out of beginningless greed, anger and delusion, Committed with body, speech and thought, Of all this I now make full and open repentance.’ ………………. In this podcast: Introduction to some of the chants that are chanted in Zen Temples and monasteries and what they are about. How to understand the Repentance Sutra we must understand something about Karma and how the Buddha saw the existence of all beings. The connection with Karma to agrarian

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08:53

Gentling the Bull: Chapter 7 - Book Extract

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2025/08/02

This short audio is an extract from: Gentling the Bull: The Ten Bull Pictures - A Spiritual Journey with comments by Myokyo-ni. The title of the Chapter - Bull Forgotten Man Remains - concludes the full integration of the Bull energy into the human form. It signals the end of that part of the gentling process and begins the final ascent 'up the mountain' which is the religious path proper. It also highlights the importance of reverence in the face of the deep mysteries that are to be encountered on

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26:11

Step Carefully: A Gateway Talk

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2025/07/20

No portraits or sculptures existed of the Buddha. After he died, a great longing arose to know what he had looked like. Anybody who was ancient enough to have met him was sure of an attentive audience. Just such a person was a nun, now over 100 years old. To procure some solitude, she had moved out of the town into a little Hermitage, but anyone wishing to enquire would soon come to hear of her. One day a sincere seeker, a highly attained Elder monk, sent a message to her requesting a meeting. She

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47:23

An Interview with Randolph Whitfield: Translating the...

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2025/07/01

Randolph Whitfield has been a lifelong Zen Buddhist practitioner, studying under Master Daiyu Myokyo in London and Soko Morinaga Roshi in Kyoto. He originally studied classical guitar and piano at London’s Trinity College of Music and then later studied classical Chinese at Leiden University. In recent years he undertook a Herculean task to translate the source texts for many of the later Zen Koan Collections - The Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, an early Medieval Chan/Zen text written

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33:19

Rinzai's Attention to the Smallest Detail

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2025/06/16

TEXT: Rinzai’s Attention to the Smallest Detail ‘Followers of the Way, as the Zen school sees it life and death are under a certain order. In interviews the student should consider the smallest details. When host and guest appear, there is an exchange of discourse. Sometimes form is shown as corresponds to things. Sometimes the whole body (essence ) is borught into function. Sometimes the full power of solemn authority is exercised to evoke awe. Sometimes half the body (essence ) is revealed

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39:34

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice April 2025

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2025/04/27

How do the bodhisattvas reconcile the saying that ‘samsara is nirvana’ when there is also suffering in the world. If nirvana is peace then how can that peace include suffering? ………………. Samsara is Nirvana, Nirvana is Samsara. The problem of evil Doctrinally, the view from emptiness - ocean and wave - Tozan’s 30 blows Projection of values - liking & disliking Definition of Dukkha Confucius - three men walk past an event Inner strength - in practice Fear = I

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33:27

Getting Beyond Light And Dark - Master Rinzai

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2025/04/09

Martin gives a commentary on the following passage from The Zen Teachings of Rinzai tr. Irmgard Schloegl. 'Venerable Ones, do not delay and spend your days idly. In former days wen I could not yet see clearly, all the world seemed dark to me. I could not get beyond light and shade. I ran around with fever in my belly and with my heart in a flurry, asking about the Way. Later I gained strength and now I am here, preaching deliverance to you, followers of the Way. My advice is not to come here for

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17:21

Book Extracts Audio: The Zen Way - Life in a Japanese...

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2025/03/20

This is an extract from The Zen Way by Irmgard Schloegl who spent 12 years training in Zen Buddhism at Daitokuji. In this extract Martin Goodson reads an extract from the book detailing the daily routine of the monks plus the ordeal of entrance begging undergone by all monks to gain entry to the monastery.

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31:58

How do I practice Zen?

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2025/03/16

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30:39

Three Types of Zen Student

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2025/02/09

In this talk Master Rinzai explains that he sorts the students who come to him into three sorts. This introduces us to the notion that is there in early Buddhism that the path is made up of stages. The Arhat path has five stages that go from the earliest stirrings of interest to Arhatship and the attainment of Nirvana. The Mahayana Path has the ‘One Way’ as explained in the Lotus Sutra that sees the earlier Arhat Path as the stage prior to the Bodhisattva Path to Full And Perfect Enlightenment. In

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23:55

Win the Game or Lose your Head!

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2024/12/08

In this talk we hear the story of a young man who, becomes disillusioned with life and turns to a Zen Master for help. The master then challenges him to a game in which if the young man loses he will also lose his head. In the process he discovers the inner strength of his own Buddha-Heart. This story in many ways is similar to the story of the Buddha who as a young prince also became deeply disillusioned with the world and set out to find an answer. This state of disillusionment, is a state of

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27:45

Death’s Three Messengers

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2024/10/27

In this talk, which coincides with Halloween, a young man on his wedding day finds himself standing in front of Yama, Lord and Judge of the Dead. The man bitterly complains having been taken away before his time and Yama in an unusual gesture of compassion agrees to send him back and also offers to send the young man three messengers so that he will be reminded that is time will come. What happens when the now older man finds himself once more before Yama teaches us that facing the truth of our

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48:40

The Power of Now

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2024/09/27

Jamie Shavdia (www.jamieshavdia.co.uk) and Martin Goodson discuss the hugely popular book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. In this podcast, they discuss where this book sits in the development of contemporary spirituality and psychotherapeutic treatments which introduce the present moment as a psychological medicine for many of our modern complaints. Eckhart Tolle had what he described as an ‘enlightenment experience’ spontaneously, following bouts of deep depression and suicidal ideation. Jamie

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33:11

Rinzai 35: Do not follow the 10,000 things

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2024/09/08

‘Followers of the Way, if you want to become Buddha, do not follow the ten thousand things. When the heart arises the ten thousand things arise too. When the heart is stilled, the manifold things cease. And when the heart does not rise, the ten thousand things are without blame. In the world and beyond the world, neither Buddha nor Dharma manifest themselves nor do they disappear. Though things exist they are only as names and words, sentences and catch phrases to attract little children; or

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32:30

Do you know Buddha from Mara?

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2024/07/21

In this podcast: What are the characteristics of delusion and delusive seeing? What is the connection between suffering and delusion? How truth can become toxic. Karma and habitual thinking and seeing. --------- A man who has left home should know how to see clearly and calmly, should know Buddha from Mara, the true from the false, the worldly from the sacred. If he has got this knowledge, he can truly be called a leaver of home. If he does not know Buddha from Mara, then in effect he

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25:45

Troubleshooting Zen Study & Practice 55

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2024/04/20

Q) Will all the problems go away when I stop thinking about them? ….. In this podcast: • The context for this question - mental health crisis over climate change etc. • The disciple who reads the Vedas three times (introvert approach) • Problem solving and the difference between the extrovert and the introvert approach • God, grant me the serenity to accept the things • I cannot change, • The courage to change the things I can, • And the wisdom to know the difference

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20:15

Working with the Fires | How to train the emotional...

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2024/03/31

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26:48

Master Rinzai's medicine against anxiety

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2024/03/10

Followers of the Way, the Dharma of the heart has no form and pervades the Ten Directions. In the eye, it is called seeing; in the ear, hearing; in the nose, smelling; in the mouth, talking; in the hands, grasping; in the feet, walking. Fundamentally, it is one light; differentiated , it becomes the six senses. When one’s whole heart comes to a full stop, one is delivered where one stands. Why do I speak thus? It is only because I see you, followers of the Way. All running about with an agitated

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28:53

Rinzai’s - Look for him before you

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2024/01/21

“Venerable Ones, get to know the one who plays with these configurations. He is the original source of all the Buddhas. Knowing him, wherever you are is home. Your physical body, formed by the four elements, cannot understand the Dharma you are listening to; nor can your spleen, stomach, liver or gall; nor can the empty space. Who then can understand the Dharma and can listen to it? The one here before your very eyes, brilliantly clear and shining without any form - there he is who can understand

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