Category: Teachings
What is Vipashyana?
Vipashyana as defined by Reginald A. Ray, an American Buddhist academic and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
Forum: Understanding Dogen
When student approach the work of Dogen Zenji, the founder of Soto Zen, they find enigma and obscurity, plus great clarity. A roundtable discussion on this.
Stay with the Soft Spot of Bodhichitta
Pema Chödrön on how to awaken bodhichitta—enlightened heart and mind—the essence of all Buddhist practice.
Discovering the True Nature of Mind
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal teaches us a Dzogchen meditation that goes from contemplating our worst enemy to the discovery that mind is empty, clear and blissful.
Forum: Formless Meditation
A panel discussion with Ajahn Sumedho, Reverend Patricia Dai-En Bennage, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Gaylon Ferguson on shikantaza – formless meditation.
See the True Nature, then Let Go and Relax in That
An interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche that turned into a Mahamudra teaching on the spot.
White Plums and Lizard Tails: The story of Maezumi Roshi and his American Lineage
The story of a great Zen teacher—Taizan Maezumi Roshi—and his dharma heirs. Finding innovative ways to express their late teacher’s inspiration, the White Plum sangha is one of the most vital in Western Buddhism.
Listen, Think, Practice and Realize Your Life As Peace
This teaching by Maezumi Roshi on practicing the dharma was first given in Los Angeles in 1994.
The Future of Zen
Interviews with experts Sojun Mel Weitsman, Steve Hagen, Jiko Linda Cutts, & John Tarrant on how Zen is evolving in the West.
The Practice and Philosophy of the Buddhist Path
Once you understand, through study, what the Buddha is saying about his own awakening, you are already within the fiery process of the path.
Fully Engaged in Body, Speech, and Mind
Anne C. Klein on the foundational practices of Dzogchen, through which we can meet the dharma with our entire being and dissolve conceptual mind into the “great expanse” that is liberation.
What is a Moktak?
A moktak as defined by Chong Hae Sunim, a Zen abbot, and Master Seung Sahn, a teacher of Korean Zen Buddhism.
Directly Experience the Nature of Mind
Instruction on Mahamudra vipashyana meditation by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.
That Problematic “Self”
In the fourth and final post in his series on the Buddhist concept of "self," Dr. Reginald Ray talks about how we maintain our "self" and therefore suffer.
There Is No “I” Who Is Sitting
Master Sheng-yen teaches the technique of silent illumination.
Emptiness / Buddhanature
The Buddhist schools are rich and varied in their perspectives, but these many points of view all advance the Buddhist concept of the middle view.
If there is no self, who is it that keeps getting reincarnated?
Doesn’t the idea of reincarnation imply that there is a thing or self that can be referred to as existing, which passes from one life to the next?
Free from Mind, Discrimination and Consciousness
Master Sheng-yen is abbot of the Nung Ch’an monastery in Taiwan. This interview was conducted during a ten-day silent illumination retreat he led.
Celibacy and the Awareness of Sexuality
Ajahn Thanasanti explains why practicing celibacy is one of the best ways to experience and understand our sexuality.