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
2020-07-28 Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field 1
The life of Master Hongzhi
Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
00:56:22 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
2020-10-25 Navigating by the stars
Words from two wise women -- Anne Salmond and Susan Murphy -- for Jacinda Ardern (and all of us) as many challenges loom.
Texts: Newsroom article, 18 October, 2020 Navigating by the stars
www.newsr…
00:52:35 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
2020-09-26 Questions Raised by the Cannabis Legalisation Ref
How does cannabis legalisation relate to the precept of not taking intoxicants or causing others to do so? What legal framework will improve health and equity while reducing harm?
00:47:34 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
2020-09-26 Term Intensive Introduction
Introduction to the Spring Term Intensive
00:09:26 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
20-09-15 End Of Life Choice Referendum
The first precept is "Not to Kill, but to cherish all life." How does this guidance play into how we might vote on the proposed euthanasia legislation? How will the legalisation of assisted suiside a…
01:10:26 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
2020-07-30 Day Three 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 3: The Practice of True Reality
Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by T…
00:57:22 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
2010-08-26 M 9 Daitsu Chisho Buddha
Why does Great Penetration Supreme Wisdom Buddha sit for 10 eons and not attain buddhahood?
00:46:12 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
2020-08-25 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 4
What is the point of practice if so few experience deep awakening? Practice as a process of tenderising. St Francis and the wolf of Gubbio.
Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice …
00:55:24 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
2020-08-24 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 3
Pushing on an unlocked door that opens towards us -- getting beyond the self/other split
Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
00:57:05 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
2020-08-23 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 2
Some of the different forms our doubt may take.
Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
00:56:49 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
2020-08-22 Masters Dahui and Sheng Yen on Koan Practice 1
The nature of Great Doubt and its origin in our sense of alienation
Main source: Shattering the Great Doubt: the Chan Practice of Huado by Chan Master Sheng Yen
00:54:23 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
2020-07-31 Day Four 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 4: With Total Trust Roam and Play in Samadhi
Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, tra…
00:56:46 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
2020-07-29 Day Two 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 2: The Bright, Boundless Field
Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Tai…
00:53:27 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
2020-07-28 Day One 4-day Online Sesshin
Comments on Master Hongzhi's Cultivating the Empty Field, 1: Biography of Master Hongzhi
Main Source(s): Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, translated by Tai…
00:56:22 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
2020-07-28 Cultivating Delight
Comments on an interview with leading American poet Ross Gay where he describes how we can cultivate joy, delight and gratitude.
Main source(s): https://onbeing.org/programs/ross-gay-tending-joy-and…
00:48:47 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
2020-07-07 Matariki Jukai
Jukai : why and how we receive the 16 precepts, and do it more than once, plus some notes on understanding the 10 cardinal precepts in the light of the 3 resolutions -- to do no harm, to do good, and…
01:00:22 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
2020-07-05 Dharma class Heart Sutra 4
The fourth and last of the pre-Jukai Dharma classes on the Heart Sutra
01:33:16 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
2020-06-28 Dharma Class - Heart Sutra 3
The third in the series of dharma classes on the Heart Sutra
01:16:42 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
2020-06-21 Dharma Class Heart Sutra 2
The second class in the Heart Sutra series.
00:51:09 |
Sun 28 Jun 2020
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