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

Zen Humour

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

Zen Humour

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.

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

Life and Devotion in the Kannon Villages (English subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF69e4uRf0I

Life and Devotion in the Kannon Villages (English subtitles)

Published on Jan 16, 2015

Kannon (観音) is among the most revered boddhisattva deities in Japanese Buddhism and is often kept as the main object of worship at temples around Kyoto, Nara, and other historic areas of this central region such as Nagahama.

Embodying both a geographic and cultural crossroads in the heart of Japan, Nagahama City encompasses several traditional villages surrounding the northern coast of Lake Biwa, a region known as Kohoku (lake’s north side). Here in these communities, we find the continuation of a unique and centuries-old tradition to preserve the Kannon.

Known as a caring protector, Kannon gives but also receives protection from these villages as they pass the deity statues down from generation to generation with gratitude and devotion that has lasted since medieval times. See how the spirit of traditional Japan lives on even today in these communities.

Buddhadharma: No Shortcut to Awakening

http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/web-archive/2014/8/12/no-shortcut-to-awakening.html?printerFriendly=true

No Shortcut to Awakening

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 1:41PM    Editor in Fall 2014

 

Excerpted from the Fall 2014 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, available on newsstands and by subscription.

Ross Bolleter guides us through the Cycle of Merit, the ancient Chan master Dongshan’s map showing us the way to enlightenment and back to where we are.

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Ross Bolleter Roshi is a teacher in the Diamond sangha tradition and a dharma successor of Robert Aitken and John Tarrant. He is the senior teacher of Zen Group of Western Australia in Perth. This teaching is adapted from The Five Ranks of Dongshan, published by Wisdom Publications, 2014.

Article originally appeared on Buddhadharma (http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/).

See website for complete article licensing information.

Bodhidharma's Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITnmOJbR5uU&list=PLa-FkVmUuOnvRmCSLormIlrpbhwk7_Xyo&index=6

Bodhidharma's Shoe 

Uploaded on Oct 31, 2008

Americans began to practice Zen in the 1960s under the guidance of teachers from Japan. American Zen practice preserves many Japanese monastic traditions as Tom Davenport's personal account of a seven day intensive Zen retreat, documents. The filmmaker intercuts video of the retreat with drawings by Giei Sato that were published in the book "Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life" (University of Hawaii Press).

This retreat or "Sesshin" was at Bodhi Manda Zen Center, Jemez Springs, New Mexico --one of the most rigorous and conservative Zen Centers in the United States. The teacher is Joshu Sasaki Roshi who was born in 1907 and came to the United States in 1962. Other American Zen Centers have adapted and changed (using English in the chanting, for example) but the core practices of Zen Centers are similar.

For some healthy criticism of American Zen practice, please take a look at http://www.darkzen.com/Articles/means... by Stuart Lachs.

Tom Davenport is one of the founders of Folkstreams and began his Zen practice in the late 1960s. Bodhidharma is the legendary Buddhist monk who brought Zen (Ch'an) practice from Indian to China in the 5th Century.

LibriVox: Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot

https://librivox.org/sermons-of-a-buddhist-abbot-by-soyen-shaku/

Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot

Soyen SHAKU (1860 - 1919), translated by Daisetz SUZUKI (1870 - 1966)

Look! it's the science of sitting, No! it's the science of meditating, No! it's Zen. If you wanted to know anything regarding Zen Buddhism and you did not have the opportunity then here is your chance to listen to the wisdom of a Zen Buddhist Abbot who toured the United States in 1905-6 and most of the sections in this book were lectures that were given to the American Audience, which is why this work is nicknamed as "Zen for Americans."

On Soyen Shaku:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyen_Shaku

Ten bull herding pictures

http://terebess.hu/english/oxherd4.html

Gentling the Bull: The Ten Bull Pictures: A Spiritual Journey by Myokyo-ni (Irmgard Schloegl), Zen Centre, London, 1988. (facsimile): Tuttle Publishing, 1996. Kindle Edition: http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B005R18D38

Myokyo-ni (born Irmgard Schloegl; January 29, 1921 - March 29, 2007) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist nun, who directed the Zen center Shobo-an in London. The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, also known as the Ten Bull Pictures, are believed to have been drawn by Kakuan, a twelfth century Chinese Zen master, but became widely used as a means of Zen study in fifteenth-century Japan. They are used in formal Zen training to this day to show the stages of one's realization of enlightenment. Each of the ten pictures is presented here with a preface and general foreword to the series by Chi-Yuan, a monk in the direct line of Kakuan. Myokyo-ni provides a lucid introduction that sets the pictures in their historical context and shows their relevance to modern Zen training. In her own comments on each picture, she discusses how they are representative of our own search for "oneness"- spiritual fulfillment.


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A few directions for kinhin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUqcqq2zFM&list=FL812OsLyVXYhaxvPDywNCsA&index=25

A few directions for kinhin 

 by Pierre Turlur

Zen - Introduction to zen practice / full version - Taigen Shodo Harada Roshi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL2XUTeoUsM

Zen - Introduction to zen practice / full version - Taigen Shodo Harada Roshi 

Uploaded on Dec 11, 2010

Zen Meditation Breathing
subtitles:Danish,English, French,German,Hungarian,Spanish
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A short film for beginners about zen meditation by Taigen Shodo Harada Roshi, who is the abbot of Sogen-ji zen monastery in Okayama.

Shodo Harada Roshi's public talk (Feb.27,2008) "Wash Your Bowls"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xdg9-oXe2s

Shodo Harada Roshi's public talk (Feb.27,2008) "Wash Your Bowls"

Published on Jun 29, 2012

This is a public talk by Shodo Harada Roshi. Given on Feb., 27, 2008. Roshi begins with a story from Zen Master Joshu, known as 'wash your bowls', and applies this teaching to each persons situation in the world today.
The talk was given in support of enso house a hospice on Whidbey Island, founded by Harada Roshi.
Roshi teaches in Japanese with translation into English.

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speaker: Shodo Harada Roshi
translator: DaiChi Storandt