Interviewed by Kazuaki Tanahashi; brief history of studies in Rinzai dojo; nature of being a roshi.
Heading into winter; what is the most important thing at the end of your life? taking refuge; how are we also hungry ghosts; six realms.
Seminar 1
Sunday talk.
Sunday dharma talk.
Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.
Sunday talk.Buddha teaches liberation; methods of liberation; birth and death is itself nirvana.
Sunday Talk.Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting.
The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts.
Sunday talk. Practice, realization, expression; Dogen's letters to nun Ryugen
Wednesday night teisho
The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi.
Seizei lonely and destitute.
Sunday lecture
Zendo lecture; feeling of not fitting in and not belonging that sends us towards spiritual practice.
One day sitting
Sunday talk Jan PP; you are blessed by the people who want to practice with you who are not necessarily the people you would choose to practice with.
67th Case: Mahasattva Fu Expounds the Scripture; single-point samadhi.
January PP Class; introduction of Mindfulness Sutra; quotes from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman; Walden and Leaves of Grass.
Cases 14 and 15
Class
5:00 class
Wednesday night.
Sunday talk.Koan with the wild ducks; story of the king who questioned the Buddha; report on global warming.
Saturday Lecture
Relationship with the rules while training.
"The Four Nourishments"
Zendo Lecture