Buddhistdoor: Approaching Ch'an

1. http://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/approaching-chan-part-1

2. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/approaching-chan-part-2-the-two-streams-of-chan-contemplative-practices

Approaching Ch'an

By Ven. Guo-Xing and Ven. Chang-Hwa

Being Without Self, Jeff Shore's Talks

https://beingwithoutself.org/dharma-talks/transcribed-talks-pdf/

Transcribed Retreat Talks (pdf)

Transcriptions of retreat lectures by Jeff (with some translations):

• Comfortably Seated Under The Rose-Apple Tree, Days: 1-4 (2016) (UPDATED)
• How to Meditate: The Classic Zazen Manual For Today (2015)
• Where Do You Draw the Line? (2014)
• Ordinary Mind Is The Way – Cultivating Practice (2014)
  • Mintea comună este Calea (Ordinary Mind Is The Way)
• The Pearl Revealed – Retreat Lectures (2013)
• Exhortations For Those Who Do Rouse The Doubt – Parts 2 and 3 (2012)
• Exhortations For Those Who Do Rouse The Doubt – Part 1 (2011)
• Enjoying the Way (2010)
• Great Doubt: Getting Stuck & Breaking Through The Real Koan (2010)
  • Der Große Zweifel
• No Bull: Zen Oxherding Pictures for the Modern World (2009)
  • El No-Toro: Cuadros Zen del Pastoreo del Buey para el Mundo Moderno
  • Kein Ochse: Die Ochsenbilder des Zen – gedeutet für die Gegenwart
• Clarifying the Mind of Nirvana (2008)
• The Constant Practice of Right Effort (2008)
  • A Helyes Erőfeszítés (Right Effort)
• A Rinzai-Soto Dialogue (2007)
  • Rinzai Szoto Párbeszéd (A Rinzai-Soto Dialogue)
  • Zen Rinzai Una introducción a la práctica
• Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism: Zen Buddhism in the Light of Religious Experience (2007)
  • A vallási tapasztalat a zen buddhizmus fényében (Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism)
  • Experienţa religioasă în lumina Budismului Zen (Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism)
• Encounters on the Way (a diary of Jeff’s 2006 sabbatical)
• Becoming One and Being Without Self (2005)
  • Eén worden en zijn zonder zelf
  • Eggyévállás (Becoming One)
  • Convirtiéndonos en Uno y ser sin YO
• No-self in Zen Buddhism (2004)
  • Не-я в дзен-буддизме (No Self In Zen Buddhism)
  • Geen-zelf in het Zenboeddhisme
  • Intet Selv i Zen Buddhismen
• Principles of Zen Practice: Illuminating the Source (2003)
  • Principes van de zenpraktijk: Het belichten van de bron
  • Principios de la práctica zen: Iluminando el Origen
  • A zen gyakorlat alape (Principles of Zen Practice)
• Basics of Zen Practice: Just Be One (2002)
  • Basisbeginselen van de Zenbeoefening: Wees alleen maar één
  • Práctica Básica de Zen: Ser Sólo Uno
  • Practica Zen, Notiuni de baza: Doar fii unul (Just Be One)
  • Основы практики дзен (Just Be One)
• The Unconditioned (2001)
  • Het ongeconditioneerde
  • A Feltétel Nélküli (The Unconditioned)
  • Необусловленное (The Unconditioned)
• Zen in Early Buddhism (2000)
  • Zen in het vroege Boeddhisme
• The Source of Zen – Who Transmits What? (1998)
  • De bron van Zen – Wie draagt wat over?
  • A Zen Forrása (The Source of Zen)
• Koan Zen From the Inside (1995)
  • Koan-Zen von Innen

Korean Zen Resources

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/4u4yfr/resources_on_seon_buddhism/

Korean Zen Resources

Extract :

[–]TheHeartOfTuxes[🍰] 4 points 10 hours ago* 

The Way Of Korean Zen by Zen Master Kusan Sunim is a wonderful classic, exemplary of Soen.

Another great classic is Only Don't Know by Zen Master Seung Sahn. This is a collection of some of Seung Sahn's early teaching letters. His school has a collection of many thousands of letters in which the master responds to all kinds of issues that we all share in life and in practice. Unfortunately, this pdf is without images, so the very useful teaching of the Zen Circle (p164) is missing/difficult to understand.

One of the hallmarks of Soen is emphasis on questioning; but it must be understood what questioning refers to. It doesn't mean the discursive mind asking a lot of questions. It means the mind before thinking. Soen's run-up to that mind, for people who are not familiar with it, does tend to involve using a big question that clears away all other thoughts.

But different schools and teachers have different approaches. Some may emphasize concentration practices, or chanting, though a broad variety of practices tend to be available in most Korean Zen schools.

Another hallmark of Soen is the communal nature of practice. Community and group practice is used both to train the student in putting down self-centered opinion, and also to harness the group energy to achieve things that would be difficult or impossible when attempted alone.

In any case, need it even be said that reading is only the first little shred, and that you should soon get real teaching and real Soen experience by visiting a Korean center or temple. No need to commit right away; you can visit for a talk or public service and enjoy!

Of all Buddhist schools, Korean Zen/Soen is very much action-style. Don't mull and brood; don't waste time making many ideas; only do it! Vibrant, lively, vigorous, engaged. So taking action and actually visiting a center and trying out the practice is very, very necessary in order to start understanding Soen. It can't be done from an armchair or even alone on your own meditation mat — not until you have digested a great deal of teaching and have aligned with it in a stable manner.

~

Edit: Zen Master Seung Sahn's book Dropping Ashes On The Buddha has a teaching about the Zen Circle, along with an image of it, on page 5. This book is notorious for having some teachings that are fairly accessible to the common reader and some that fly over the head of even intermediate students. Once you study with a master and undertake practice, the teachings come clear little by little (or sometimes in leaps and bounds); so don't get attached to the words, either by clinging or by rejecting.

One of the benefits of the teaching about the Zen Circle is that it helps you identify where a person's teaching or action is coming from. For example, the statements of some high-profile contributors on /r/Zen are at the 180° position (emptiness) at best, and perhaps the commenters have had some experiences at that level; but their statements are often mistaken as being representative of Zen when really they are just stuck part-way, attached to emptiness. There's a lot of territory between mere emptiness and complete attainment; and even complete attainment at 360° does not finish the training, because a true master can move effortlessly between any perspective, any position on the circle, according to the situation.

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism

https://archive.org/stream/outlinesofmahay00suzurich#page/n0/mode/2up

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism, by D.T.Suzsuki

Publisher London, Luzac and Company, Publishers to the University of Chicago
Pages 444
Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language English
Call number nrlf_ucb:GLAD-246028
Digitizing sponsor MSN
Book contributor University of California Libraries
Collection cdl; americana

Full catalog record MARCXML

This book has an editable web page on Open Library.

Gift Giving and Generosity

https://www.upaya.org/2015/12/byrnes-giving-and-generosity/

Gift Giving and Generosity

by Dharma Podcasts on December 28, 2015 in Podcasts

Speaker: Joshin Brian Byrnes
Recorded: Wednesday Dec 23, 2015

Zen Humour

http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Zen_Humor.html

Zen Humour

Beginners introduction to Zazen

Beginners introduction to Zazen

http://meditationseeds.com/beginners-introduction-to-zazen/

Upaya : Gate of Sweet Nectar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZCOLc7TcA&feature=youtu.be

Gate of Sweet Nectar

Published on Aug 27, 2015

Upaya Zen Center Liturgy: Gate of Sweet Nectar
Sunday, August 22 with Roshi Bernie Glassman and Roshi Joan Halifax. Officiated by Joshin Brian Byrnes.

UPAYA Zen Center: Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying

https://www.upaya.org/2013/03/contemplative-practice-and-rituals-retreat-2013-all-7-parts/

Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying

Upaya Zen Centre

The 7 part 2013 series Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying is now published.

You can access the desired part of the series by clicking on its link below:

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 1

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 2A

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 2B

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 3

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 4A

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 4B

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series (2013) : Part 5, last part

The 12 part series Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying is now published.

You can access the desired part of the series by clicking on its link below:

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 1

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 2

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 3

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 4

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 5

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 6a

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 6b

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 6c

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 7a

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 7b

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 8a

Retreat on Contemplative Practice and Rituals in Service to the Dying Series : Part 8b, last part

by Dharma Podcasts on May 29, 2012 in Podcasts

The 7 part series Being With Dying is now published.

You can access the desired part of the series by clicking on its link below:

Being With Dying-Part 1: Focused Attention

Being With Dying-Part 2: Nine Contemplations

Being With Dying-Part 3: Giving and Receiving

Being With Dying-Part 4: Dissolution of the Body

Being With Dying-Part 5: Dharma Talk

Being With Dying-Part 6: Contemplating Our Priorities

Being With Dying-Part 7 (of 7): Open Presence

Buddhism and Science: Tibetan and Zen Buddhist Perspectives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lq3w3G0Q_s

Buddhism and Science: Tibetan and Zen Buddhist Perspectives

Harward Divinity School

Published on May 29, 2014

On April 20, 2007, Georges B. Dreyfus, Professor of Religion at Williams College, and Eshin Nishimura, former president of Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan, each spoke, with a Q&A moderated by Donald K. Swearer following the two talks. This event was sponsored by Harvard Divinity School (with a special grant from Richard Watson); the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School; and the Boston Theological Institute. This was the third event in the "When Worlds Collide: The Study of Religion in an Age of Science" lecture series.

ZEN BRAIN: EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS: Waking, Sleeping, Dreaming, Dying Series : All 11 Parts

https://www.upaya.org/2013/02/zen-brain-exploring-consciousness-waking-sleeping-dreaming-dying-series-all-11-parts/

ZEN BRAIN: EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS: Waking, Sleeping, Dreaming, Dying Series : All 11 Parts

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searching for the ox the path to enlightenment in 10 pictures

http://www.lionsroar.com/searching-for-the-ox-the-path-to-enlightenment-in-10-pictures/

BY JOSH BARTOK AND CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE| NOVEMBER 6, 2015

In Zen’s famed 10 oxherding pictures, the ox is enlightenment and the herder is you, the meditator. Created by 12th-century Chinese master Guo-an Shi-yuan, the oxherding pictures have mapped the path for Buddhist practitioners ever since, inspiring countless commentaries and new renderings. Here is a contemporary take by graphic artist Mark T. Morse, with commentary by Boundless Way Zen teacher Josh Bartok and a Vajrayana perspective from the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism: Sunyata (Emptiness) in the Mahayana Context

http://www.buddhanet.net/cbp2_f6.htm

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism: Sunyata (Emptiness) in the Mahayana Context   

HuffPost: These Zen Buddhist Koans Will Open Your Mind

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zen-buddhism-koan_563251dce4b0631799115f3c?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

These Zen Buddhist Koans Will Open Your Mind

"Out of nowhere the mind comes forth."

Carol KuruvillaReligion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post

Roshi Joan Halifax Discusses the Painful Truths of Death and the Impermanence of Life (video)

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/roshi-joan-halifax-discusses-painful-truths-death-and-impermanence-life-video/4770

Roshi Joan Halifax Discusses the Painful Truths of Death and the Impermanence of Life (video)

BY MARY DESMOND