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- 3 days ago1h 2m
Sitting With Your Karma
Given at a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center, this talk picks up a question left open in the previous episode, "Sitting Like a Buddha." If zazen is not a means to awakening but its enactment, what about karma? Thoughts, fragments of story, and small triggers of dissatisfaction keep arriving, and we assume awakening means their absence. The talk proposes instead that we are always sitting and living with our karma; what changes is our relationship to it. Karma means intentional action,...
- 2 weeks ago55 min
Sitting Like a Buddha
Where are you located in your body? Most of us, without ever having chosen it, sense ourselves somewhere behind the eyes. Zazen instructions typically bundle two separable practices: disidentifying from thinking, and relocating the self in the belly. Contemporary mindfulness often teaches the first and omits the second. Zen's own instruction is to sit as a buddha rather than in order to become one, trusting a monastic container to do that work silently; outside such a container, this talk sug...
- Aug 20, 202649 min
Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 3)
One week after the Open Sky weekend, this talk was given at the Boulder Zen Center and turns that earlier study of the senses toward a question asked after morning meditation: How do we live well? Two answers our culture commonly offers are laid out and found wanting. "Following the rules" leaves you permanently behind an internal "should" you can never satisfy, and "following your own desires" rests on an inner authority that turns out to be hard to locate. Against both, the talk sets what Z...
- Aug 6, 202643 min
Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 2)
Given outdoors during our recent Open Sky Practice, this talk takes up the Yogācāra teaching of the eight consciousnesses, which splits mind into three to address self, continuity, and karma. (1) Mano, the conceptual consciousness, binds the physical senses into objects and names them. (2) Alaya, the “storehouse consciousness”—maybe better called a “greenhouse” because it is changing from moment to moment—holds not content but dispositional seeds, like the weights of a neural network that eve...
- Jul 23, 202641 min
Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 1)
Given outdoors during our recent Open Sky Practice, this talk takes up the Buddhist approach to the senses. Where we usually count five, Buddhism counts six, treating mind as a sense alongside seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touch, and understanding each as a field that arises when a sense organ meets its object. The visual field we take for reality is itself the seeing mind; what appears belongs neither to the world outside nor to the self within; it simply arises, relationally. The ...
- Jul 9, 202658 min
Is Zen Buddhist Daoism?
Zen is an amalgamation of Buddhism and Daoism. But which way around: is it a Buddhism with a Daoist inflection, or a Daoism reinventing itself through a Buddhist lens? The question is practical. Zen can be sparse on how zazen translates into everyday life, as if appropriate action would simply fall into place once we sit hard enough. The Daoist stories have more to say. In the Zhuangzi, a cook's blade stays sharp for nineteen years because it follows the inherent structure of the ox; a swimme...
- Jun 25, 202647 min
Even This Belongs
To be alive is to have problems. While having problems is unpleasant, the deeper difficulty, this talk proposes, is not the problems themselves but the resistance we bring to them. Suffering is not one thing; it is pain multiplied by resistance. Beginning with the Five Remembrances and their reminder that aging, illness, death, and the loss of what we love cannot be escaped, the talk turns to the feelings we least want to feel, taking anxiety and powerlessness as the examples, and asks what i...
- Jun 11, 202638 min
What You Already Want (On the Precepts)
This talk was given the day before a Bodhisattva Precepts Ceremony (Jukai) for five members of the Boulder Zen Center sangha. After describing the ceremony's lineage papers and the intentional family one joins by receiving the precepts, the talk turns to a difficulty. The grave precepts tend to land as a should, like a parental commandment, in what the talk calls the "structure of should," a morally superior part instructing a guilty one. This structure divides us within ourselves and, in the...
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