Thousand Harbours Zen

On retreat, a talk about how we hold someone we see as an enemy versus how we hold a baby. (Koun Franz; June 22, 2024)

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Case #105 of Dōgen’s Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; June 18, 2024):
Yunyan asked Daowu, “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion [Avalokiteśvara] use so many hands and eyes?”
Daowu said, “It’s just like a person in the middle of the night reaching back in search of a pillow.”
—from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, by John Daido Loori and Kazuaki Tanahashi

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Our temple, Sensouji, has received official recognition as a temple by the Soto Zen School in Japan. Here, a talk about what it means for us to belong to something else: a sect, a school, a tradition, a lineage. (Koun Franz; June 4, 2024)
 
 You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
 
 Post-production by Tod Nyokai.

When we sit in zazen, we’re waiting for the bell; when we notice that feeling, we notice we’re always waiting for something. What if we weren’t? (Koun Franz; May 21, 2024)
 
 You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen podcast.
 
 Post-production by Tod Nyokai.

Case 93 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; May 7, 2024):
 
 Shenshan was sewing when Dongshan said, “What are you doing?”
 Shenshan said, “I am sewing.”
 Dongshan said, “What is sewing?”
 Shenshan said, “Each stitch follows the other.”
 Dongshan said, “If my companion of twenty years says so, I guess there is a point.”
 Shenshan said, “What would you say, Elder?”
 Dongshan said, “Each stitch is like the earth exploding."
 
 —from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, by John Daido Loori and Kazuaki Tanahashi
 
 You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel.
 
 Post-production by Tod Nyokai.