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
2021-06-05 An Experience of Enlightenment 1
Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi
Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Curtois Quest Books 1986
00:50:20 |
Mon 14 Jun 2021
2021-06-01 Precepts Part 1
The 10 Precepts are at the core of the Great Way and have their origins in the 8-fold Path. The version that we say can be found in the Brahma Net Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva in the …
00:47:17 |
Sat 05 Jun 2021
2021-06-01 Precepts Part 1 - discussion
Discussion following the teisho on precepts (part 1)
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TzR5AgJe8tXU1xqsnAIJoxaEYkg
00:08:52 |
Sat 05 Jun 2021
2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds
The teaching and poetry of grass and weeds, from Zen to Walt Whitman.
00:32:50 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
2021-04-20 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 3
All is a circle -- an exploration of some of the circles to be found in nature and in Mind.
Main Texts: River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism by T…
00:57:41 |
Sun 25 Apr 2021
2021-04-13 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 2
Learning from spiritual friends, practising humility.
Main text: River of Fire, River of Water by Taitetsu Unno
00:54:09 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
2021-03-21 Teachings of Jodo Shinshu 1
What we can learn from the Japanese Pure Land tradition
Main Text: River of Fire, River of Water: An introduction to The Pure Land tradition of Shin Buddhism by Taitetsu Unno
00:56:21 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
2021-02-16 Vows, Faith, Compassion and Renunciation 2
More on how and why our sitting practice is woven with vows. Examples of other formulations of vows within the Mahayana tradition.
00:53:46 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
2021-01-26 Vows, Faith, Compassion and Renunciation
A look at four essential ingredients of our practice of the Buddhadharma, (besides zazen), and an introduction to Ko Ngā Oati e Whā (the four great vows in te reo).
00:43:16 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
2021-01-15 H18 The National Teacher's Seamless Monument
The Emperor of China doesn't understand the National Teacher's request for him to build a 'seamless monument'. After he dies, his heir Tangen recites a poem to answer the Emperor's query, saying, "Be…
00:38:02 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-14 H17 Kyorin's Sitting Long and Getting Tired
What is the meaning of Zen? What is the meaning of life?
00:36:02 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-13 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 5
How we cling to the self-identities we create, even when they are painful.
Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
00:38:07 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-12 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 4
Renunciation is not an outward but an inward action, a gradual transformation of our attitude toward the world around us.
Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta …
00:39:11 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-11 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 3
Who or what is in the way of our waking up? How do we get out of the way?
Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
00:38:00 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-10 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 2
How subjective emotional consciousness distorts our experience.
Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary
00:38:42 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2021-01-09 Teachings of Zen Master Dahui 1
Some historical background on Master Dahui and his championing of koan practice.
Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary, and Circ…
00:36:33 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
2020-11-24 Chiyono's "No Water, No Moon"
Chiyono experiences enlightenment when the bottom falls out of her water bucket. How do we break out of fixed ways of seeing ourselves and framing the world? Absorption in a koan is a tried and teste…
00:50:41 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
2020-11-10 "These Mountains, They Are in Pain"
A meeting between a Buddhist monk and a people in Colombia who understand that they are part of the living world, not separate from it.
Main Text: Running Toward Mystery; The Adventure of an Unconven…
00:49:52 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
2020-07-31 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 4
"With total trust, roam and play in samadhi".
Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Franci…
00:56:46 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
2020-07-30 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 3
"You must be broadminded, whole, without relying on others."
Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point P…
00:57:22 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
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