Norman and Chris Fortin both speak on Dogen’s Mana Shobogenzo Case 34 – The World-Honored One’s “Intimate Speech.” This case can be found in John Daido Loori’s book “The True Dharma Eye – Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans.”
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Jaune Evans gives the second talk to the Dharma Seminar on poet Saigyo Hoshi entitled “Dharma is a Mirror of Your Mind.” Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. He later took the pen name Saigyō, meaning “Western Journey”, a reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise. He lived alone for long periods in his life in Saga, Mt. Koya, Mt. Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is more known for the many long, poetic journeys he took to Northern Honshū that would later inspire Bashō in his Narrow Road to the Interior.
Norman gives his talk on Hanukah Light to MakorOr in November 2021.
Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
He later took the pen name Saigyō, meaning “Western Journey”, a reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise. He lived alone for long periods in his life in Saga, Mt. Koya, Mt. Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is more known for the many long, poetic journeys he took to Northern Honshū that would later inspire Bashō in his Narrow Road to the Interior.
Norman gives his sixteenth and final talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series on the Denkoroku to the November All Day Sitting. In the Platform Sutra Hi-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his fifteenth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series on the Denkoroku to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hi-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives a Guided Meditation on “Presence” to the Conflict Resolution Professionals group.
Norman gives his fourteenth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Shuso Eva Bovenzi gives the thirteenth talk (Shuso talk 3) of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Shuso Eva Bovenzi gives her second Shuso talk to the EDZ 2021 Sesshin on art and awakening using historical art and her own original works. This is a video presentation.
Norman gives his twelfth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to EDZ 2021 Sesshin (Talk 3). In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his eleventh talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to EDZ 2021 Sesshin (Talk 3). In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his tenth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to EDZ 2021 Sesshin (Talk 3). In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his ninth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the EDZ 2021 Sesshin (talk 2 ). In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his eighth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the EDZ 2021 Sesshin (talk 1). In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his seventh talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar at the October All Day Sitting. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Shuso Eva Bovenzi gives the sixth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his fifth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar at the October All Day Sitting. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his fourth talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his third talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman gives his second talk of the Platform Sutra 2021 series to the Dharma Seminar. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. In this series Norman references Red Pine: “The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng.”
Norman opens the 2021 Everyday Zen Practice Period and gives his first talk of the Platform Sutra 2021. In the Platform Sutra Hui-neng (sixth patriarch) confers the formless precepts of the Southern School of Zen. Norman will be referencing Red Pines’s “The Platform Sutra:The Zen teaching of Hui-neng” throughout the series.
Norman gives his first talk to the Dharma Seminar of the Dogen’s Bendowa 2021 series. In this series Norman references the book “The Wholehearted Way” by Shohaku Okamura and Taigen Dan Leighton. Dogen’s Bendowa may also be found in “Treasure of the True Dharma Eye, Zen Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo,” edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi, two volumes.
Norman gives the tenth and final talk of “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women” on Uppalavana and Precepts to the EDZ July All Day Sitting.
Norman gives the tenth and final talk of “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women” on Uppalavana and Precepts to the EDZ July All Day Sitting.
Zen Earthlyn Manuel gives the ninth and last talk on “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. on “The Possibilities in What We See.”
Sue Moon gives the eighth talk from “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.”on “Learning from the Teachings of Dipa Ma and Darlene Cohen.”
Sue Moon and Naomi Newman talk on “The Wise Old Woman by the side of the Road” from “The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.”
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