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
- 235
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
2021-10-03 Arrogance
Exploring how the self-centred emotion of arrogance (or pride) causes pain in ourselves and others, plus a glimpse of what it feels like to be on the other end of arrogance.
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00:57:43 |
Sat 09 Oct 2021
2021-09-28 Information and Misinformation
Who do we trust for our information? How open-minded are we? Can we see beyond the views of the people we disagree with and stay connected?
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00:55:07 |
Sat 09 Oct 2021
21-09-14 Learning from Te Ao Māori
Talk given in recognition of Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori). Some background on our 4 vows translation, Ko ngā Oati e Whā. Beginning to explore key concepts of the Maōri worldview, with…
01:04:22 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
2021-08-31 Working with our suffering
In lockdown again, many of the ways that we "get a break from ourselves" are no longer possible. So how do we work with painful habits of thinking and feeling?
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00:53:20 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
2021-08-17 H46 Kyosei's Sound of the Raindrops
How can we engage in our lives without falling into subject/object dualism? How can we hold onto nothing in the very midst of using all our senses?
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00:48:40 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
2021-08-06 Yu Uses Her Full Strength
When Yu realises master Linji's "true person of no rank" she leaps beyond convention and societal norms.
Text(s): The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, ed.Florence Ca…
00:43:59 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-08-05 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 6
The space around our thoughts.
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
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00:56:20 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-08-04 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 5
"You are not the conditions that make you do things."
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
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00:56:54 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-08-03 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 4
Self-preoccupation and the three conceits.
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
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00:53:30 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-08-02 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 3
The Manchester Buddhist Society and starting to teach. Non-returner and Bodhisattva paths.
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
Aut…
00:55:19 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-08-01 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 2
Working with horses and people
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
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00:51:58 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-07-31 The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams 1
Early life and awakening
Text(s): Not I, Not Other than I, The Life and Teachings of Russel Wlliams ed. Steve Taylor O-Books 2015
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00:49:59 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
2021-06-29 Precepts 3 - discussion
Discussion following teisho Precepts 3.
00:08:25 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
2021-06-29 Precepts 3
Comments on precepts 3, 5 and 9 (sex, intoxicants and anger).
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/tAjKCqb9J5WQIYSW8xi6tORmm8g
00:51:16 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
2021-06-15 Precepts 2 - discussion
A discussion following the talk Precepts 2.
00:08:26 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
2021-06-15 Precepts 2
This talk covers precepts 2 and 8, which have to do with greed -- wanting stuff we don't have and clinging to stuff we already have, as well as precepts 4,6 and 7 which are to do with different aspec…
00:44:25 |
Sat 19 Jun 2021
2021-06-08 An Experience of Enlightenment 4
Arrival, loss and return -- the universe changes on its axis, but how to share this amazing experience with others? Searching for a context for 20 years and finally finding one.
Text: An Experience o…
00:50:52 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
2021-06-07 An Experience of Enlightenment 3
A turning point -- no need to look further than the mind itself.
Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
00:51:40 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
2121-06-06 An Experience of Enlightenment 2
Flora Curtois' search for Reality, or the ground of being.
Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
00:50:20 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
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