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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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- Yesterday7 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
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Skeletons – Part 2
Ikkyu’s skeletons teach in rich and evocative koan-like poems. Any one of them can be read alone, and in fact, each one deserves quiet contemplation rather than a single reading. Powerful in imagery and content, these skeletons have much to share. Read the Journal while listening
- 4 weeks ago12 min
The Enlightenment of Chiyono
Mugai Nyodai, known also as Chiyono, was one of the first Japanese women to receive transmission in Zen. Read the Journal while listening
- May 12, 20269 min
What is Ch’an?
This is a time to return to the roots of practice. With new people coming into Daily Zen every month, it is fitting now for a piece like this. Sheng-yen skillfully paints a history of how Buddhism traveled from India to other parts of the East, and the transformation that became known as Zen today. Read the Journal while listening
- May 4, 202615 min
The Awakening of Mugai Nyodai – Part 2
Mugai Nyodai, known also as Chiyono, was one of the first Japanese women to receive transmission in Zen.. While she is well known through her founding of many women's Zen monasteries, she is relatively unknown to those of us in the West who are more familiar with the Patriarchs of Zen, like Hui-neng or Bodhidharma. Read the Journal while listening
- Apr 19, 20269 min
On the Transmission of Mind – Part 12
This piece of Huang Po’s touches elements of practice that seem to turn your mind inside out at first. He seems to raise more questions than answers, and thus helps us return to beginner’s mind—that place where we don’t know as much and are ready to learn. Read the Journal while listening
- Apr 14, 20267 min
True School of the Ancient Buddhas
Down to earth and, at the same time, a most expanded view of practice; each line is an invitation to explore. Read the Journal while listening
- Apr 9, 20269 min
On the Transmission of Mind – Part 3
We are exhorted to aspire to a paradoxical way of learning/unlearning in Zen; to “think” the unthinkable. Many words are used to help us see the limitations of words, and yet, we keep reading, studying, and aspiring to something we inherently possess. 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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