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Daily Zen has been a contemplative haven for online visitors since 1998 offering a unique blend of Eastern quotes for each day of the year, Zen-inspired e-cards, and a meditation room where at any moment a visitor may be meditating with any one of our companion Wayfarers each day. The Journal, called On the Way, is published once a month and this podcast has been created to turn those Journals into an auditory experience allowing listeners to contemplate its ideas in another way.
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- 2 days ago15 min
To Live is Just to Live
All of us have been known to complicate our lives and our practice at times. We overthink problems, over-dwell on emotional states from time to time, and try to quantify where we are in practice. To simply sit without the complications, the trappings of practice, even something this simple, can be challenging for us. Read the Journal while listening
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Shikantaza
Time to return to the beginning with Spring/Fall around the corner. Many of you have asked for more instruction on beginning meditation. Read the Journal while listening
- 2 weeks ago9 min
Informal Talks
Dogen speaks clearly about the mind that seeks the way and how to maintain the intensity of practice over time. We couldn’t ask for a world of more distraction than the one we currently inhabit. Read the Journal while listening
- 2 weeks ago8 min
What is the Way?
There are always layers of understanding and misunderstanding in practice. It is similar to a snake shedding its skin; at one stage that is the only protection it has; then, at some point it is time to expand and let go of that empty skin that no longer serves. Read the Journal while listening
- 3 weeks ago9 min
Divine Light
In the beginning, I was seeking that one essential point to connect with, to focus on, which would allow me a foundation that didn’t clutter up the mind with too many concepts or formulas, or rules. Read the Journal while listening
- Jun 25, 20269 min
Zazen
There’s room in practice for many kinds of students; at some stage in practice, we have been them all. Everything is in a constant state of change, including us, and anything we think we understand about zazen is to be discarded to make room for even vaster insights. Read the Journal while listening
- Jun 19, 20268 min
Skeletons
Death, the great equalizer, has a way of bringing life into a different kind of focus. Ikkyu’s skeletons share teachings from their point of view, which is accessible to those of us who remember we too will be those skeletons, and in fact carry them with us daily. Read the Journal while listening
- Jun 15, 20267 min
Kuan-shin lun – Contemplation of Mind
Sometimes less is more. There is no technique discussed other than contemplating the mind. We might translate this into turning the light of awareness inward, or leave it open to experience and discovery. Read the Journal while listening
About The Daily Zen Teisho
Daily Zen has been a contemplative haven for online visitors since 1998 offering a unique blend of Eastern quotes for each day of the year, Zen-inspired e-cards, and a meditation room where at any moment a visitor may be meditating with any one of our companion Wayfarers each day. The Journal, called On the Way, is published once a month and this podcast has been created to turn those Journals into an auditory experience allowing listeners to contemplate its ideas in another way.
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