AZC Weekly talks
In this podcast you can find almost all the talks given at the Auckland Zen Centre, back to 2016. Most talks are by Roshi Amala Wrightson, but there are also talks from Sensei Richard von Sturmer and senior students too.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 234
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
2020-06-16 Black Lives Matter
Sometimes silence, so valued by us as students of Zen, is not enough. Of course all lives matter, but we need to affirm aloud that black and brown lives matter, as they are often devalued, disregarde…
00:50:32 |
Sat 20 Jun 2020
2020-06-14 Dharma Class Heart Sutra 1
The first in the series of classes on the Heart Sutra
01:02:13 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
2020-06-02 Optimism, Pessimism, Realism
Bodhicitta (the intelligent heart, or aspiration to awaken for the sake of all) as a way of engaging with this time of great peril and great opportunity.
00:48:19 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
2020-05-19 Lenses for Lock-down
Some of the ways the pandemic lock-down is being understood and how we might respond to this global upheaval in our own lives.
01:04:05 |
Sun 24 May 2020
2020-04-21 S:83 Daowu Tending the Sick
The Buddha said whoever would tend me should tend the sick. With what attitude should we tend the sick?
00:52:55 |
Sat 25 Apr 2020
2020-04-07 S94 Dongshan is Sick
Master Wansong comments on this story, "When the ancients were about to go, they frolicked in the realm of old age, sickness and death." How do you frolic in old age, sickness and death? Watch Master…
00:57:36 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
2020-03-24 H:87 Ummon's 'Medicine and sickness'
What is the nature of illness? What Is medicine? Ummon says that the whole earth is medicine, and asks what, then, is the self? How do things change when we approach the circumstances of our life fro…
00:51:58 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
2020-03-10 H3 Baso's 'Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha'
Zen teachings on sickness, death and healing.
Quoted text: In Love with the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
00:45:48 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
2020-02-09 Zen and Marriage - panel discussion
A panel discussion on zen and marriage with Hogen Green-sensei and his wife Cindy Eiho Green, of the Mountains and Rivers Order and Amala Sensei (Auckland Zen Centre) and her husband Richard v. Sturm…
01:24:39 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
2019-11-12 Coming to the Path - Hamish Bartle
Coming to the Path talk by Hamish Bartle
00:54:31 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
2020-01-10 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 6
People often come to the Dharma because they want to transcend birth and death, sickness and old age, but masters of the past and present all grow old, get sick and die. How can we leave behind birth…
00:53:51 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-11 The Old Woman, Zhaozhou, and the Tiger
How do we deal with frightening things when they confront us, and how do we deal fear itself and the vicious cycles of anxiety?
Main Text: The Hidden Lamp, Stories fromTwenty-Five Centuries of Awaken…
00:55:32 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-09 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 5
True Mind is like "a jewel hidden in the mountain of form". It exists but is not perceived. "Ordinary people are those who are enlightened all day long without ever knowing it." Even amid the troubl…
00:54:08 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-08 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 4
Chinul responds to the question "What is the essence of True Mind?", describes its functioning, and explores the similarities and differences between True Mind's essence and function.
Main Text: The …
00:50:57 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-07 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 3
The importance of faith in the practice of the Path and the myriad names for True Mind in the Sutras and in Son (Zen).
Main Text: The Collected Works of Chinul, translated and with an introduction b…
00:52:51 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-06 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 2
Conclusion of biographical material and introduction to Chinul's teaching on True Mind.
Main Text: The Collected Works of Chinul, translated and with an introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr., Univers…
00:51:42 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2020-01-05 Master Chinul's "Straight Talk on the True Mind 1
Biography of Twelfth Century Korean Master Chinul. One of the most important figures in Korean Buddhism, Chinul sought to unify the teachings of the sutras with those of Son (Zen in Japanese), the so…
00:53:05 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
2019-11-27 Yashodhara's Path
An alternative story of the Buddha's home-leaving from the Sarvastivadin literature, and the parallel practice undertaken at home by his wife, Yashodhara, provide us with a model for lay practice.
M…
00:54:34 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
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