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'From the High Seat, the master said: "One is on the way for aeons without leaving his house; one leaves his house without being on the way. Which one is worthy to receive the offerings of men and gods?" And he came...

Q. Does taking the bodhisattva vow mean that they have to be reborn in one of the six realms again? Does whatever it is that is reborn have to be reborn in the six realms? ……………………………………………………………………. In this podcast...

In this talk: Daiko - Osho san: 'A world that cannot be grasped. A world of change. A vast, open empty sky' 'ku' = emptiness/sky in Japanese - from the Heart sutra. Background to the Rohatsu sesshin - Buddha's great...

Master Sokei-an, who lived half of his life in the United States, stated humorously: 'If you are in a powerful car in the middle of the Gobi Desert, you can step on the gas pedal and go any speed you like, any direction...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...