Resolving To Wake Up-Yunmen's Staff Becomes a Dragon by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

In this talk from our October 2023 Sesshin, Teshin Roshi explores the second of 4 postures outlined by the Buddha and the famous koan: The Oak Tree In the Garden.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Arguing With Reality (Nansen Kills The Cat) by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Buddha's Journey - How Is It Relevant? by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Importance Of Leaving Home by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Through a classic koan, Teshin Roshi explores ways to cultivate gratitude and connect with the original intention of Thanksgiving.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Teshin Roshi reflects on James Ford Roshi's visit and explores what a matured practice looks like using Case 14 of the Book of Equanimity.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Teshin Roshi shares about his recent sabbatical and explores the wisdom of stepping back in order to step into our lives.Door North Carolina Zen Center

During our annual Bodhidharma Day ceremony we explore the famous interchange between the Emperor of China and Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Guest Speaker: Roshi Meido Moore, Three Important Foundations of Zen by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Zazen as a Yogic Practice by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

During a recent talk in our Summer Guest Speaker Series, Roshi Dosho Port and Sensei Tetsugan Zummach told a moving story about one practitioner’s experience with the koan Mu.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Roshi James Ford, Guest Speaker by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Koshin Chris Cain, Guest Speaker by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Paramita of Patience by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Jesus, Buddha And The Tools Of Love by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

All Sounds are the Sounds of the Buddha by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

It Is Your Mind That Moves by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Facing Ourselves by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

For the Precepts Class. Precepts 6 and 7.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Case 56 of the Book of EquanimityDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Buddha's Enlightenment - Closing The Distance by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Guest Teacher: Shana Smith by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

When It Is Cold, the Cold Kills You. When It Is Hot, the Heat Kills You by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

In this talk, guest speaker and friend to the Center James Myoun Ford, Roshi offers his thoughts on Case 29 in the Blue Cliff Record.Door North Carolina Zen Center

In this talk, Sangha member Sheldon Clark reflects on the book, How to Cook Your Life and the Zen chant Affirming Faith in Mind.Using direct quotations from both texts, Sheldon looks at difficult personal and cultural interactions, pulling our ideas which offer guidance from a Zen perspective.Door North Carolina Zen Center

This track serves as an introduction to the following two talks, each touching on the four Bodhisattva Vows.Door North Carolina Zen Center

A Zen View Of Abortion by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Four Vows, part 2 by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

The Four Vows, part 1 by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

How do we work on relationships? Our meditation practice holds the key. How do we work on our meditation practice? Our relationships hold the key.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Case 19 of the Blue Cliff Record: Gutei's One FingerDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Reflections On Spring 2021 by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

A monk asked Jinguing, “I am breaking out; I ask the teacher to break in.”Jinquing said, “Can you live or not?”The monk said, “If I weren’t alive, I’d be laughed at by people.”Jinquing said, “You too are a man in the weeds.Door North Carolina Zen Center

The first Dharma talk of 2021 regarding impermanence and change.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Using the classic Buddhist framework of the Six Realms, Teshin Sensei explores how to work with various mind states. This talks was given in 2018.Door North Carolina Zen Center

An exploration of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a teaching of the Buddha.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Using a classic koan from the Zen tradition, Teshin Sensei explores the idea of individual and collective karma--the law of cause and effect.Door North Carolina Zen Center

A Dharma Talk given in 2018. This talk uses a classic koan to explore how to live less unconsciously but rather with more awareness and presence. To see what is always present.Door North Carolina Zen Center

In this Dharma Talk Teshin talks about the importance of commitment in practice.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Person Of 3 Disabilities by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Using a classic case from the Book Of Serenity, we look at the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the thin veneer of society.Door North Carolina Zen Center

In this Dharma talk we explore a traditional koan from the Blue Cliff Record. Teshin begins by talking about the two great practices of our tradition, just sitting and koan practice.Door North Carolina Zen Center

Practice around the Holidays (2020) by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Aliens, Climate Change, and the Bodhisattva Path by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Tending the Field of Practice by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Anti-Fragile by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Wayfinding by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Student-Teacher Relationship Part 2 by North Carolina Zen CenterDoor North Carolina Zen Center

Some thoughts on how Zen views the Student/Teacher relationship.Door North Carolina Zen Center