Tenshin Reb Anderson Talks

Origins of the Bodhisattva precepts; development and commentaries; the reasons for Buddhas appearing in this world.

Introducing the Brahma's Net Sutra: https://www.tinyurl.com/Brahma-Net

Origin of the tathagathagharba teachings; the Huayen school in China; three marks of existence and four inverted views; skillful means of milk medicine described in the Nirvana Sutra.

Avalokiteshvara clearly seeing the emptiness of five skandhas; listening to the cries of the world, the suffering of beings.

Buddha's sitting - who do you think you are; ; Buddha, dharma and sangha are all-pervading; Yunmen's appropriate response.

Summary of the unrecorded morning talk. The practice of just sitting. Remembering stillness, letting go of 'what next.' Training to ready for this moment, and for death.

Discussing afflictions of the mind where the self appears, as an opportunity to explore consciousness. The ignorance of the view that the self is operating the situation.

Sitting in the world, we can't perceive the whole world; we sit in our dharma position, which changes all the time. Impermanence is Buddhism - this place is no abode..

Coming to Zen Center to receive training; extensive discussion and planting rice fields can both be appropriate response;

Ungraspable nature of all phenomena; perfect wisdom understands dependent co-arising; non-abiding in any state.

Buddha pointing to the earth, a good place for a sanctuary; masks and personas; freedom from self-consciousness.

Buddha's 'a good place to build a sanctuary'; buddha mind is intimately transmitted - Sandokai; undergoing surgery; baby developing a self;

Talking about recent surgery; Buddha's 'a good place for a sanctuary'; the Buddha's work is face-to-face meeting; conversations within a family; opening the door to our original face.

Listening to each others' stories; Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights;

How to be with the fire that surrounds us; Buddha sitting upright, clearly observing, accepting all suffering; watching our fears about not being able to control things.

In the midst of stillness there is the awakened activity of liberating beings; lovingkindness and politics; becoming Buddha by realizing causation; not being possessive of anything, even the dharma,...