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The Buddha's Enlightenment and Our Own Zen Practice

59:05

The Buddha Leaves Home, (and how this relates to our own Zen practice!)

47:38

Realization, Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Healing

33:18

Manjusri Fails to Awaken the Young Woman. Is failure "wonderful indeed"?

44:58

Shame!

1:02:21

Halloween 2024 -- The Fox Koan and Putting Old Ghosts to Rest

36:18

The Buddha Holds Up a Flower

Recorded December 14, 2024.
To end the year - a teisho on the Buddha’s teaching - and a flower!
It should come as no surprise that Zen tradition sees the Buddha as the original Zen Master, someone who teaches by demonstrating and presenting, rather than simply by lecturing, or talking “about.” The Buddha offers living truth, not philosophy. Like the monk in the final Zen Oxherding picture, he enters the marketplace of human life with helping hands. Which sounds pretty good. Who doesn't need help? But what does such help look like? What kind of help does the enlightened Buddha offer?
To clarify, let’s look at Gateless Barrier, case # 6: “The Buddha Holds Up a Flower.”
Books referenced:
• The...

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The Buddha's Enlightenment and Our Own Zen Practice

59:05

The Buddha's Enlightenment and Our Own Zen Practice

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Recorded December 8, 2024 In this teisho Roshi Rafe Martin tells the dramatic story of the Buddha’s great enlightenment then comments on it (using his recent book A Zen Life of Buddha as his source), from the ground of ongoing Zen practice: “Zen Buddhism reveres the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment because it so dramatically reveals our own potential, even as it reveals the determined, dedic...

The Buddha Leaves Home, (and how this relates to our own Zen practice!)

47:38

The Buddha Leaves Home, (and how this relates to our own Zen practice!)

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Record December 7, 2024 This teisho, the opening teisho of our two-day rohatsu sesshin, itself the culminating event of five previous days of heightened daily practice, is on the Buddha’s leaving home and its relation to our own maturing Zen practice. According to legend, when at the age of twenty-nine, the long-sheltered prince, Siddhartha Gautama, left his comfortable palace to explore life i...

Realization, Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Healing

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Realization, Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Healing

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Recorded November 23, 2024 In this teisho, using Dharma Transmission case 30 in the “Transmission of Light,” Bodhidharma’s heir, Huike, to Seng t’san, (the author of “Affirming Faith in Mind”) as a case in point, Roshi Martin explores gratitude and thanksgiving - from a Zen perspective. Seng t’san, suffering from a serious illness, realized the empty ground of his disease, the foundation of wha...

Manjusri Fails to Awaken the Young Woman. Is failure "wonderful indeed"?

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Manjusri Fails to Awaken the Young Woman. Is failure "wonderful indeed"?

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Recorded November 16, 2024. With this teisho Roshi Martin looks into the nature of painful failure: “Is it wonderful indeed” as the koan of “Manjusri and the Young Woman” (“Gateless Barrier” 35) proclaims? If so, how? Roshi Martin begins with the opening lines of "The Odyssey” pointing out how they reveal that it is Odysseus’s failure that sets the epic of a man overcoming difficulties and temp...

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Shame!

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Recorded November 9, 2024. In this first post-Nov. 5th election teisho, Roshi Martin opens with two poems of W.B. Yeats, speaking from the Irish “Troubles,” then moves on to read from and comment on Chapter Seven -“The Resource of Shame” - in Nelson Foster Roshi’s new book: Storehouse of Treasures: Recovering the riches of Chan and Zen. Some bits to savor: The great T’ang era Zen master Chao-ch...

Halloween 2024 -- The Fox Koan and Putting Old Ghosts to Rest

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Halloween 2024 -- The Fox Koan and Putting Old Ghosts to Rest

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Recorded October 26, 2024. Roshi Rafe Martin examines the important koan of Pai-chang and the Fox (case 2 of the Gateless Barrier), in light of both Halloween and the ghostly anxieties of our pre-election week. Referenced: • The Gateless Barrier (a.co/d/bAs0uT2) : The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan), Translated and with a Commentary by Robert Aitken Photo : Hungry Ghost Altar, Endless Path Zendo 10/2024...

Trying to Satisfy Desire. The Mandhata Jataka.

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Trying to Satisfy Desire. The Mandhata Jataka.

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Teisho by Roshi Rafe Jnan Martin, 10/15/2024 Vermont Zen Center Recorded October 15, 2024. In this teisho, the final teisho of the October 2024 Jataka Sesshin at the Vermont Zen Center, Roshi Martin tells an ancient jataka (past life tale of the Buddha) that's very much like a sci-fi story! He then examines it from the perspective of Zen practice. In the story, which the Buddha told near the ti...

The Banyan Deer -- a teisho on non-duality and justice

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The Banyan Deer -- a teisho on non-duality and justice

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Recorded on October 12, 2024 This teisho was presented by Roshi Martin on the first day of the recent, Oct. 11-16th 2024, 16th Annual Jataka sesshin at the Vermont Zen Center. In it, Roshi Martin first puts on his hat as an award-winning author and storyteller, giving a dramatic reading of his book, The Banyan Deer: A Parable of Wisdom and Courage (Wisdom Publications, 2010). Then, putting his ...

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Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind

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Recorded 10/05/2024. Roshi Martin comments on case 41 in The Gateless Barrier (terebess.hu/zen/gateless-barrier.pdf) - “Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind,” the core of which is as follows: Bodhidharma sat facing the wall. Huike, the Second Ancestor . . . said, “Your disciple’s mind has no peace as yet. I beg you, master, to please put it to rest.” Bodhidharma said, “Bring me your mind, and I will p...

Zen History -- D.T. Suzuki and the Transmission of Zen to the West

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Zen History -- D.T. Suzuki and the Transmission of Zen to the West

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Recorded September 21, 2024. Roshi Martin reads from (and comments on) "A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered (a.co/d/3ei3JyL) " focusing on the important, indeed, seminal role Dr. D.T. Suzuki (NOT Shunryu Suzuki) played in the transmission of Zen to the West. In his reading aloud from the book he focuses on the chapters written by his own teachers Philip Kapleau and Robert Aitken as well as the c...

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Great Compassion

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Recorded September 7, 2024 Roshi Rafe Martin speaks about the deep meaning of the 11-headed, many-armed Bodhisattva of Great Compassion and his/her relevance to our own lives and times right now. Referenced: "The Record of Lin-chi (a.co/d/dY7SLvc) " Ruth Fuller Sasaki (translation and commentary) "A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas" by Rafe Jnan Martin • Books by Roshi Rafe Martin (endlesspathzendo.org...

Part 9 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Part 9 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Recorded July 27, 2024. In this teisho, Roshi Martin concludes his reading from "Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha (a.co/d/0i0P63HX) " and offers his comments on the stirring autobiography and inspiring teachings of Tangen Roshi. Tangen Harada Roshi, (the monk, Tangen-san, in "The Three Pillars of Zen") was an extraordinary human being and extraordinary Zen teacher, one with particularly ...

Part 8 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Part 8 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Recorded July 20, 2024. In this teisho, Roshi Martin continues reading from "Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha (a.co/d/0i0P63HX) " and comments on the stirring autobiography and inspiring teachings of Tangen Roshi. Tangen Harada Roshi, (the monk, Tangen-san, in "The Three Pillars of Zen") was an extraordinary human being and extraordinary Zen teacher, one with particularly close ties to t...

Part 7 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Part 7 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

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Recorded July 13, 2024. In this teisho, Roshi Martin continues reading from "Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha (a.co/d/0i0P63HX) " and comments on the stirring autobiography and inspiring teachings of Tangen Roshi. Tangen Harada Roshi, (the monk, Tangen-san, in "The Three Pillars of Zen") was an extraordinary human being and extraordinary Zen teacher, one with particularly close ties to t...