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Published by Will Rauschenberger
Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link... Thank you for listening, Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger, Abbot
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A willful nature is hard to tame. A tangle of thorny bushes: the faint murmur of running water. But here and there are footprints—is this the right path?
The first Picture of the 10 Ox Herding Pictures and cultivating the way through the practice of meditation.
Sitting with sore legs.
Zazen is intimacy and freedom.
The simple, difficult teaching. Don’t make Zazen; just sit.
Interdependent Origination: Universal Sacredness.
Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch says, “ one day a shopkeeper ordered a load of firewood brought to his store. After he took the delivery and paid me, I walked toward the door and met a customer reciting the Diamond Sutra out loud. As soon as I heard the words, my mind felt clear and awake, and I asked the man, ‘Where did you get this scripture you’re reciting?” And so began the journey of one of Zen’s most revered teachers.
Attempting to be the problem solver is the source of anger.
The three principles of practicing the Middle Way.
You have never lost it. Why are you seeking it?
What causes the tangled messes we find ourselves in? How do you untangle the mess?
What keeps us coming back to our practice? Experienced practitioners respond to the question in this podcast.
What is your original face before your father was born?
Silence on a retreat and Kongans, what do they have in common?
The immeasurable and the relative.
Our practice is getting to know ourselves, which is forgetting the self, and being actualized by all dharmas.
Here, our essential self is compared to an ox. We seek the ox, grasp it, tame it, and finally the self which has always been seeking becomes completely one with the ox. But this is also forgotten, so that we now simply carry on our ordinary lives.
We all have mothers; motherhood and Buddhahood are not different, yet not not different.
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are the three treasures. How to take refuge.
How is our practice center different from a Buddhist Temple?
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