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Taking Refuge in Zazen | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Taking Refuge in Zazen. August 3, 2015. August 4, 2015. This week I’d like to talk again about zazen not being meditation, and it not being something that we. Exactly. I highly recommend this essay by our guiding teacher Taigen, called Dogen’s Zazen as Other Power. The last paragraph of Taigen’s essay says :. In zazen, we live out that question with vitality and faith. 8211; Keizan Titus. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Sinceri...
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Calculating the Difference | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. June 9, 2015. Saying I’ve had satori! Is only feeling a difference in the balance. Saying I’m deluded! Is feeling another. To say food tastes delicious or terrible, to be rich or poor, all are just feelings about shifts in the balance. In most cases, our ordinary way of thinking only considers differences in the balance. Into everything without knowing it. We sometimes say That was really good! What is it good for? Is the k...
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On Spiritual Friendship | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. July 26, 2015. July 26, 2015. I recently came across a remarkable essay by the Italian Marxist theorist Franco Berardi about his understanding of the message of Pope Francis. In particular, he focuses on what he calls a shift in Church doctrine, under Francis, from an emphasis on truth, to an emphasis on compassion and simple friendship:. On April 11, 2015, Francis released his. I’m not a believer; I trust in no god and no ...
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Weekly | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Please join us Monday nights for zazen and Dharma discussion. Please wear loose comfortable clothing, preferably in dark solid colors that covers your legs and shoulders. There are storage cubbies in the back room, where we ask you leave purses, watches, water bottles, shoes, and. Cell phones. Please arrive and be in your place by 6:25. If you would like to help set up, please arrive about 6. 6:00: intro for newcomers.
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A rose is a rose | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. A rose is a rose. April 28, 2015. Kodo Sawaki was born in Japan in 1880. He was the sixth child and both his parents died when he was young, Sawaki was then was adopted by an aunt whose husband soon died, After this, Sawaki was raised by a gambler and lantern maker named Bunkichi Sawaki. I wanted to begin our study with this teaching from Sawaki Roshi:. To practice the Buddha way is not to let our minds wander but to become...
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Taigen Dan Leighton at Valley Dragon, July 10, 11, and 13, 2015! | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Taigen Dan Leighton at Valley Dragon, July 10, 11, and 13, 2015! June 21, 2015. June 29, 2015. One of our guiding teachers, Taigen Dan Leighton, will be visiting again from Chicago! There will be three events, including a just added book signing at Bookworks. Friday, July 10. Book-signing and talk for his new book,. Just This Is It:. Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness. Saturday, July 11. Just This Is It:. Monday, July 13.
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Titus O’Brien | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Sincerity is the Railway Track. August 21, 2016. August 23, 2016. 8220;We say railway track, but actually, there is no railway track. Sincerity is the railway track. It is a beginingless and endless track. There is no starting point, no goal, nothing at all to attain. Just to run on the track in our way. This is that nature of our Zen practice. Shunryu Suzuki roshi,. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind,. This statement feels really r...
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desertmirror | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. On the Tenzo Kyokun. August 29, 2016. Century monk who wrote along these very lines:. The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament. When I arrived in April of 1967 to undertake my role as head co...
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Practice Without Scattering Flowers | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Practice Without Scattering Flowers. June 21, 2015. June 21, 2015. I’d like to introduce a “case” if you will from our founding ancestor Dogen. This is from the. The compendium of his short practice discussions mostly given to the monks living and practicing with him in the temple he founded, in the 13th c. These talks were translated by our guiding teacher Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, and Rev. Shohaku Okamura. Buddhas do not ...
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Grinning, with eyes full of tears | Valley Dragon Zen Sangha
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Valley Dragon Zen Sangha. Soto Zen Buddhism in Albuquerque. Keizan Titus O’Brien. Grinning, with eyes full of tears. May 12, 2015. All sentient beings are busy making mistakes. They think their unhappy affairs are happy and their happy affairs unhappy, and are always kicking and screaming. When you give a piece of candy to a crying child, the kid grins with eyes full of tears. The happiness that sentient beings speak of is no better than this. — Kodo Sawaki Roshi. Ah, grief, I should not treat you. A ros...
