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Mountain Zen – By Ron C. Moss
Haibun (Prose and Haiku) from Tasmanian poet and zen practitioner Ron C. Moss…
Bearing witness to the city: ‘Above & Below’
A reflection on our recent bearing witness practice day in the Sydney CBD. These days are becoming a regular part of our practice. Each time the adventure is utterly distinct and miraculous…
Merran Dawson – 'An experience of Practice'
“Affinity is quite mysterious and as you know cannot really be explained. Affinity may begin with a picture, a book, a place, a sudden awareness: something inexpressible which is an unbidden feeling of deep kinship. Affinity is the basis for falling in love and can be the key to keeping love alive. Affinity was the way I felt at the top of the Buddhist Library stairs.”
‘What’s the use of not-knowing?’ – May Zazenkai (Full Day Practice)
Please join us for this day of practice. Exploring not-knowing: ‘Dear Incomprehension (or Unknowing) – thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.’ – Samuel Beckett…
Great Vows and Other Blessings – March Zazenkai (Day of Practice)
March Zazenkai invitation. Theme: Great vows and other blessings. Read more…
Talk: ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ – February Zazenkai 2016 –
Dharma talk from our recent Zazenkai in Sydney. Susan Murphy Roshi explores love and the foundations of the Great Vows: ‘Love’ is a word rarely sounded in the literature of Zen. Perhaps it speaks more strongly in this silence, since the Way itself is love – a continuing and ever-unfolding act of love towards this life, this being, and the mystery of the ‘other’.
‘What’s love got to do with it?’ – February Zazenkai (Full Day Practice)
Please join us for our February Zazenkai (Day of practice) in Sydney. The topic: ‘What’s love got to do with it?!’ Read more…
Talk: 'Lucky to be here' – Sesshin Autumn 2013 – Part 1/4
Orientation: This talk is the first of four from our Autumn 2013 sesshin. Click here for the full playlist from this sesshin. Click here to download a PDF of this talk About this talk: There is no other way to walk the Way than through the gate of Mu. No other way to...
Talk: ‘It’s my fault’ (Extended discourse) – Sesshin April 2013 – Part 6/6
An extended exploration of the Koan ‘It’s my fault’.
Talk: ‘It’s my fault’ – Sesshin April 2013 – Part 5/6
In this short except from a Dharma enquiry session Roshi Susan Murphy introduces a koan that arose from a Zen Open Circle sutra study group: It’s my fault.