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alt.zenLecture On Zen
Alan WattsManual of Zen Buddhism
T.D. Suzuki
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The teachings of the masters
Bodhidharma
His devotion to meditation
was his legacy to China. He was later honored as father of the Chinese
Dhyana—or "Meditation"—school
of Buddhism, called Chan.
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Red Pine, translator (Wisdom Publications - 2003)Daruma-ki Bodhidharma and his teachings
From SotoZenNet's Zen Friends Zen quarterlyBodhidharma.com
An introduction to Bodhidharma, his journey and his legacy
In question-and-answer style Bodhidharma fields questions from his students on dharma, the mind, and reality.
Jeffrey Broughton (U. California Press - 1999)
Sengsan's Hsin Hsin Ming
Sengsan,
the third ancestor, is best know for his beloved poem, the Hsin
Hsin Ming ("The
great way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose...").
Master Sheng Yen's teaching on the Hsin-hsin ming
Mu Soeng (Wisdom Publications - 2003)A page about the poem and Sengsan
Dennis Genpo Merzel (Shambhala - 1991)
Master Sheng Yen (Dharma Publishing - 1987)
Huineng and The Platform Sutra
- Buddhist Text Translation Society
How Huineng Became the Sixth Patriarch
Philip Yampolsky's translation of The Platform Sutra
The Platform Sutra - translated by The Buddhist Text Translation Society
The Platform Sutra
With the commentary of Tripitaka Master HuaCarl Bielefeldt and Lewis Lancaster on the Platform Sutra
The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Huang-po and dharmaweb - no source
The Sutra of Hui Neng old translation
Mazu
Mazu Daoyi (Ma-tsu Tao-i) (709-788), is
celebrated for being the source of what was to become, through his famous
descendent Linji, Rinzai Zen. Mazu's uncompromising methods foreshadowed
those of Linji.
Dogen
Zenji
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The Soto master and founder Dogen (1200-1253) is probably the most revered figure in all Japanese Zen. It was Dogen who first insisted on intensive meditation, who produced the first Japanese writings explaining Zen practice, and who constructed the first real Zen monastery in Japan, establishing a set of monastic rules still observed. Moreover, the strength of his character has inspired many Zen masters to follow.
Understanding Dogen
When students approach the work of Dogen Zenji, they find enigma and obscurity, as well as blinding clarity. Taigen Dan Leighton, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Steven Heine and Norman Fischer help us penetrate Dogen's teachings. With an introduction by Carl Bielefeldt.Are There Any Who Are Not Beginners?
Teachings by Dogen from a new collection of translations focusing on his advice to practitioners. Excerpts from Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (Shambhala Pub - 2004)
Norman Fisher's talks on Fukazazengi, Bendowa, and Genjo Koan
Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, Book 29 - Mountains and Waters Sutra - translation by Prof. Carl Bielefeldt
Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, Book 28 - Getting the Marrow by Doing Obeisance - translation by Stanley Weinstein
Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, Book 13 - Ocean Seal Samadhi -translation by Carl Bielefeldt with Michael Radich
Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, Book 11 - Principles of Zazen -translation by Carl Bielefeldt with Michael Radich
Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, Book 31 - Not Doing Evils - translation by William Bodiford
Ashoka course on the Genjo Koan
Taught by Michael Weanger, San Francisco Zen CenterGenjo Koan - translated by Kaz Tanahashi and Robert Aitken
Shohaku Okumura wonderful lectures on Genjo Koan #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
Guidelines for Studying the Way. The first half - from Moon in a Dewdrop.
Reflections on Translating Dogen
Rev. Taigen Leighton
Linji
As the founder of the Linji school (in Japanese, Rinzai), Linji plays
a key role in the history of Zen.
The Zen Teachings of Rinzai
Irmgard Schloegl's 1975 translation, now out of print
Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)
A selection of Hakuin's writings
Song of Zazen
Norman Waddell translation
Song of Zazen
Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun translationHakuin's Letter in Answer to an Old Nun of the Hokke Sect Actually, two letters. In the first, Hakuin talks about the Lotus Sutra. In the second he discusses his own experiences. translated by Philip Yampolsky
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures
Paintings by Master Jikihara, verses by Master K'uo-an
Ikkyu (1394-1481)
Ikkyu Sojun was perhaps the most celebrated of the iconoclastic throwbacks
to authentic Zen. A breath of fresh air in the stifling, hypocritical
world of an institutionalized Zen, he seemed almost a reincarnation
of the early Chan masters of the Tang.
Zen Rebel Ikkyu: Ikkyu was a Zen monk of Muromachi
Bankei (1622-1693)
Bankei has long been an underground hero in the world of
Zen. At a time when Zen in Japan had become overly formalized,
the eccentric master Bankei stressed natural spontaneity and Zen's
relevance to everyday life. Bankei is best known for his talks
on what he called "the Unborn."
Norman Waddell (North Point Press - 2000)
Peter Haskel, translator (Grove - 1997)
Contemporary Zen teachings
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Taizan Maezumi
Roshi
Maezumi Roshi received Dharma transmission from Hakujun Kuroda, Roshi
in 1955. He also received approval as a teacher (Inka) from both Koryu
Osaka, Roshi, and Hakuun Yasutani, Roshi, thus becoming a Dharma successor
in three lines of Zen.
Maezumi Roshi devoted his life to laying a firm foundation for the growth of Zen Buddhism in the West. In 1967, he established the Zen Center of Los Angeles and later established six temples in the United States and Europe. He founded the White Plum Asanga and transmitted the Dharma to twelve successors: Bernie Glassman, Dennis Genpo Merzel, Charlotte Joko Beck, Jan Chozen Bays, John Daido Loori, Gerry Shishin Wick, John Tesshin Sanderson, Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta, Charles Tenshin Fletcher, Susan Myoyu Andersen, Nicolee Jikyo Miller, and William Nyogen Yeo. These twelve successors have further transmitted the Dharma to a number of "second-generation" successors. In America, Maezumi Roshi ordained 68 Zen priests and gave the lay Buddhist precepts to over 500 people.
Your Zazen Is The Zazen Of The Buddhas
What Are We Ignoring About Breathing?
Five teishos on breathing, energy and the practice of qi gong.
Zen Center of Los Angeles
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Shunryu Suzuki, a Japanese Zen priest belonging to the Soto lineage,
came to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of fifty-five. He was impressed
by the seriousness and quality of "beginner's mind" among
Americans he met who were interested in Zen and decided to settle here.
As more and more people joined him in meditation, Zen Center came into
being and he was its first abbot. Although an obscure figure
on the Japanese Zen landscape, he is one of principle founders of Buddhism
in America. Some of his edited talks have been collected in the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Branching
Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai and Not
Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen.
Buddha Is Right Here
Two talks by Suzuki Roshi addressing the fundamental koan-the life we lead at this moment.The Lamp of Zazen
The point of zazen, says Suzuki Roshi, is to live each moment in complete combustion, like a clean-burning kerosene lamp.Another talk on Buddha nature
The importance of accepting that we have buddhanature, beyond the realm of good and bad.A few quotes from Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
Norman Fischer on Suzuki Roshi's Way
Crooked Cucumber - an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him
Hakuun Yasutani Roshi
Yasutani Hakunn Roshi (1885-1973) studies under
the great Zen master of both Soto and Rinzai linage, Harada Daiun Sogaku
Roshi. Starting in the summer of 1962 Yasutani Roshi made the first
of six trips to the United States, continuing to do so basically yearly
up through 1969. Yasutani Roshi had a fervent drive
to synthesize what he considered the strengths and best of the Soto
and Rinzai sects, in the process creating a new linage of Zen called
Sanbo Kyodan, 'The Fellowship of the Three Treasures,' emphasizing
both the Koan andKensho backed by Zazan and Shikantaza.
Yasutani's initial hard core 'Three Treasures' converts have gone on
to establish and promote many highly successful Zen centers and Zendos
throughout the U.S. and the world under the Diamond Sangha banner.
Nyogen Senzaki
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (1912 - 1998), one of the most highly
respected modern Japanese Zen Masters, was ordained as a Soto Zen priest
in 1941 under Kodo Sawaki Roshi. Upon Sawaki Roshi's death in 1965,
Uchiyama Roshi became the abbot of Antaiji, a monastery and temple
then located in Kyoto, Japan.
Master Seung Sahn
The founding teacher of our School is Zen Master Seung Sahn, the 78th
Patriarch in his line of transmission in the Chogye order of Korean
Buddhism. In 1972 he came to the United States and started the Providence
Zen Center, the first center in what is now the Kwan Um School. He
and his students have founded over a hundred temples, centers, and
groups around the world. His books include Ten
Gates, The Compass of
Zen, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Only
Don't Know and The Whole World
is a Single Flower -- 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life.
Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Over 100 talks by Seung Sahn - The Kwan Um School of Zen
Robert Aitken Roshi
Aitken Roshi established, with his wife Anne, the Diamond Sangha in 1959,
which has zendos in Hawaii, California, and Australia. Aitken's introduction
to Zen came in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. He was friends
with D.T. Suzuki and studied with Nagakawa Soen Roshi and Yasutani
Hakuun Roshi. In 1974 Aitken was given the title "Roshi" and
authorized to teach by Yamada Koun Roshi. He is the author of The
Mind of Clover, Taking
the Path of Zen, The Gateless Barrier, The
Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective,
A Zen Wave and other books.
What's the Meaning of This?
Aitken Roshi on "The Meaning of the Ancestor's Coming from the West."
Shodo Harada Roshi
Shodo Harada Roshi (born 1940) is abbot of Sogenji monastery in Okayama,
Japan, where he has taught since 1982. Harada Roshi
is heir to the teachings of Rinzai sect Zen Buddhism as passed down
in Japan from Hakuin and his successors and his teaching
includes the traditional Rinzai practices. Harada Roshi now teaches
part-time at Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery on Whidbey Island, Washington.
Freshly Fallen Snow in a Newly Made Silver Bowl
The Key to Zen
A series of short teachings by SekkeiHarada Roshi
Zoketsu
Norman Fisher
Norman Fischer, a Zen priest and abbot,is a poet and teacher with wide-ranging
interests and passions. During almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center,
he served as director, tenzo, tanto, operations manager and other positions.
Norman retired as abbot of Zen Center in 2000 to take his teaching out
into the world. Norman believes in the possibility of "engaged renunciation":
living a fully committed religious life that does not exclude family,
work, and a passionate interest in the world. Norman is also active
in interreligious dialog.
John Daido Loori
Daido Loori is the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, NY, and the founder/director of the Mountains and Rivers Order. Dharma heir of Hakuyu Taizen Maezumi Roshi, he is author of The Eight Gates of Zen, The Heart of Being, and Two Arrows Meeting in Mid Air.
Mountains Meeting Mountains: Teaching of Mountains and Rivers
All-Pervasive Spiritual Knowledge
Thinking Non-Thinking
On the meaning of non-thinking and why Dogen said it "must become the eye through which you view phenomena."
Dennis Genpo Merzel
Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi leads Kanzeon Sangha, an international
group he named centered in Salt Lake City,
Utah, with affiliates througout Europe. Genpo trained
at the Zen Center of Los Angeles under Maezumi Roshi and became Maezumi
Roshi’s second Dharma Successor in 1980. Genpo combines Zen tradition
with the insights of such visionary western figures as Carl Jung,
Fritz Perls, and Hal Stone, enabling virtually anyone to realize
their true nature, a realization they can further deepen through
meditation. He is the author of four books, The
Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7
Dharma, and The Path
of The Human Being.
Facilitation of Ying-Yang Big Heart
An excerpt from a Big Mind workshop.
Sojun Mel Weitzman
Sojun Mel Weitsman began to practice at San Francisco Zen Center ,
and in 1969 was ordained by Suzuki Roshi as resident priest at the
Berkeley Zendo. Sojun received Dharma Transmission from Suzuki Roshi's
son, Gyugaku Hoitsu, at Rinso-in temple in Japan in 1984, and was
officially installed as abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center in 1985.
Currently abbot of Berkeley Zen Center,
Sojun continues a long involvement with the San Francisco Zen Center
and Tassajara, having served as co-abbot at these practice centers
for nine years.
Other contemporary teachers
Talks by Kobun Chino
Talks by Taigen Dam Leighton
James Ford, Western Zen
Talks by Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao
Enter Zen From There
Gerry Shishin WickThe Buddha We Are
Taitaku Pat PhelanThinking Mind and Correct View
Ven. Hyunoon SunimFor talks by contemporary Zen teachers see Talks On Zen Pracrice
Refuge
Peaceful Life
Dainin Katagiri
Precepts
The Ethical Precepts and Philosophical Tenets of Zen Buddhism
The Five Wonderful Mindfulness Trainings
Thich Nhat HanhThe Bodhisattva Precepts in Soto Zen Buddhism
Rev. Shohaku OkumuraThe Second Precept: Generosity
Thich Nhat Hanh
Zazen
Taught by John daishin Buksbazen, Zen Center of Los AngelesMy Zazen Sankyu Notebook #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #!4
Rev. Issho FujitaThe Practice of Zazen
A brief illustrated guide.
Texts and Sutras
Faith Mind Inscription (Hsin-hsin Ming)
See Sengsan above
The Heart Sutra
Compare 42 translations of the Heart Sutra
Robert Aitken Roshi and Diamond Sangha's version
The Lotus Sutra
Zen And the Lotus Sutra
A Series of Seminars at the Berkeley Zen Center ~ 1999
Lankavatara Sutra
Introduction to the Lankavatara Sutra, D.T. Suzuki
These sites have extensive sutra translations:
Koans
Working with Koans
John Tarrant, RoshiNorman Fischer
Talks and essays on koans at Everyday ZenAn Introduction to Zen with Stories and Riddles Told by the Zen Masters
The Gateless Gate
Ekai, called MumonThe Gateless Gate
Translated by Eiichi ShimomisseIs There a Zen Person Around Here?
John Daido Loori comments on koans from Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.From The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi (Shambhala Pub.)Quick! Who Can Save This Cat?
"Nanchuan Cuts the Cat," that most controversial of koans
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Practice
Notes on Gassho and Bowing
Taizan Maezumi Roshi with John Daishin Buksbazen (On Zen Practice)
Schools
Rinzai Zen
The Rinzai Roku by Zen Master Rinzai The Sayings of Master Rinzai (A Selection)
D.T. SuzukiSoto Zen
History of the Soto Zen School
T. Griffith Fouke
Art
Misc
Coming Down from the Zen Clouds: A Critique of the Current State of American Zen
Stuart LachsLiturgy Project - On Creating American Zen
By John Tarrant and Joan Sutherland source?Purifying the Mind
By Nonin ChowaneyThe Dharma of "Homeless Kodo"
Sawaki Kodo with commentaries by Uchiyama Kosho
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Clouds in Water Zen Center talks