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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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- Yesterday13 min
West Mountain Evening Talk – Part 2
Muso’s story of his experience is an honest account of the many starts and turns into blind alleys that sound familiar. Who hasn’t been lost at times in the study of Buddhism? Read the Journal while listening
- 3 days ago9 min
Bloodstream Sermon – Part 4
Bodhidharma is considered the founder of Zen, bringing the teaching to China from India in 520 AD. The story of his life and teachings is almost mythological in that most of his teachings were not written down. Read the Journal while listening
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Avoiding Foxes and Dogs
Occasionally, readers write that they have difficulty understanding some of the journals and seem a bit perplexed about what to do when they hit something they don’t immediately get. What I like about this selection is that Yuan-hsien hands us some very concrete directions about “looking into a saying.” Read the Journal while listening
- 1 weeks ago10 min
“Do not grasp another’s bow”
Whenever we are reading part of a letter to a practitioner written hundreds of years ago, we are attempting to bridge time and cultural barriers. Because we all share the same sense of adventure and quest for truth, no matter how many years intervene, we share the same spark that drives explorers everywhere. Read the Journal while listening
- 2 weeks ago11 min
The Living Method of Turning the Light Around
While this method of “turning the light around” seems very simple and direct, there is still some room for further translation. All the various approaches to meditation seem to have a technique that gives us something to hold onto: counting one’s breath, then watching one’s breath; using mantra, asking “Who am I?”; visualization, all as means to focus one’s attention. Read the Journal while listening
- 3 weeks ago8 min
The Wise Ones of Old
To say too much about Taoism can interfere with another’s own direct experience of intuitive understanding. Having read this piece many times in the past, I see how often it takes multiple readings to reveal deeper insights. Read the Journal while listening
- 3 weeks ago10 min
Letter to Masanori Yuno, February 1977
Yokoyama was one of the most unusual Soto Zen monks whose life reminds one of another ordained monk, Ryokan, who is best known for his poetry and love of playing with children. Neither one of them served as head of a temple or trained other monks. Their choice to live without ceremony or pretension demonstrated a purity of practice expressed through everyday life Read the Journal while listening
- Oct 1, 202610 min
Five Points in Buddhist Practice
Shosan was born into a warrior family in 1579 and lived through one of the most war-torn times of Japanese history. At age 12, he was adopted by a member of a seventy-man horse troop and thus began his life as a samurai. Read the Journal while listening
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