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
2019-09-10 Dogen sets the record straight 2
Text used: The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
03:07:51 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
2019-08-20 Dogen sets the record straight 1
Text used: The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
03:23:04 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
2019-08-06 Two stories
Text used: The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
03:22:49 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
2019-07-23 End of Life Choice Bill
Hastening our death: do we need to legalise assisted suicide, and why do so many people feel so strongly about this issue?
Main text quoted: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
00:53:25 |
Sat 17 Aug 2019
2019-07-05 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 7
Entry through practice -- (4) practicing in accord with Dharma -- giving
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt an…
00:51:19 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-07-04 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 6
Entry through practice -- (3) craving nothing (continued)
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by Jan…
00:51:14 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-07-03 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 5
Entry through practice -- (3) craving nothing
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by Jane Lago
00:47:27 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-07-02 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 4
Entry through practice -- (2) accepting circumstances
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by Jane La…
00:50:32 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-07-01 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 3
Entry through practice -- (1) requiting animosity
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by Jane Lago
00:47:09 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-06-30 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 2
Entry through Principle -- awakening to the essential
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by Jane La…
00:54:42 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-06-29 Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice 1
Bodhidharma's life and his direct pointing to the human heart
Main Text(s) quoted: The Path to Bodhidharma, the teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. Translated by Priscilla Daichi Storandt and edited by…
00:50:17 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-06-25 The Sixteen Precepts
Ethical conduct is at the heart of our practice, not an "optional extra". Some notes about the significance of the precepts and of the Matariki Jukai ceremony.
00:48:37 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
2019-06-11 Moon by the Window
Text used: Moon by the Window: The Calligraphy and Zen Insights of Shodo Harada.
00:51:28 |
Sun 23 Jun 2019
2019-04-09 Encouraging Words in Times of Crisis
Continuing on from the previous teisho, more on working with our darkest thoughts, especially tanha vibhava the craving for non-existence, aka the "pot of loathing". Plus four perspectives on our res…
00:45:17 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
2019-03-26 Overwhelm and Other Afflictive Emotions
Some responses to questions from a student: "Given the enormous amount of destruction and suffering in the world how can we do everything that needs doing? How to we keep our hearts and minds wide op…
00:27:55 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
2019-03-24 The Power of Love and Compassion
The Mosque shootings, white supremacy, non-violent climate action and "placing our fearful mind in the cradle of loving-kindness".
Main Text(s) quoted: "Why climate action is the antithesis of white…
00:49:49 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
2019-02-19 Discussing the climate crisis
Sensei comments on the sangha's discussion of the climate crisis.
00:51:04 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
2019-01-16 Songgyong Doesn't Undress
Forgetting the self and being awakened by the 10,000 things
Text quoted: The Hidden Lamp ed Susan Moon and Florence Caplow ; Women on the Buddhist Path by Martine Batchelor
00:51:01 |
Sun 27 Jan 2019
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