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- 1 weeks ago41 min
The Buddha's First Teaching
Given at the Boulder Zen Center as the opening talk of the course Enacting the Four Noble Truths, this talk begins with the formula in which the teaching was handed down: there is suffering, there is a cause, because there is a cause there can be an end, and there is a path. The talk then asks how such a formula becomes alive in experience rather than knowledge to be filed away. It proposes that every tradition has an engine, a core that lets you go anywhere within it; the engine of Buddhism ...
- 2 weeks ago48 min
Steady Without Solid Ground
This talk was given at a Boulder Zen Center One-Day Sitting for young adults in collaboration with Dharma Gates. It starts with the gap between what we expect of meditation and what we actually experience: aches and pains, and thoughts that plan, rehearse, accuse, justify, and compare. Zazen shows how unstable the mind is, and the world, reaching us as a stream of news, is no steadier. We respond by building ground to stand on: a life plan, a profession, a partner, a worldview. They work to a...
- Oct 1, 202642 min
Let It Come, Not Go
This talk starts from the common wish for a peaceful place in ourselves that protects us permanently from difficulty. The talk invokes the koan "Dongshan's No Cold or Heat" and reads it as a teaching about our relationship to impermanence: conditions alternate outside our control and we typically meet them with comparison and preference. Our wish to escape into stability is the question religion has answered with two ideas: (1) a better world elsewhere (heaven, nirvana) and (2) a path by whic...
- Sep 17, 20261h 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,...
- Sep 3, 202655 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 ...
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