Tenshin Reb Anderson Talks

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.

Yunmen's appropriate response; being Buddha right where you are: Master Ma being ready to die;

Not abiding in anything, including wisdom; helping without the idea of helping; practicing the paramitas without holding on to them; Buddha twirling a flower, Manjushri smiling is transmission in...

Buddha mind is an intimate conversation; Dogen's meeting a master for the first time; conscious and unconscious mind.

The desire for awakening for the welfare of all beings; social engagement and silence, both practices pervade all beings; practicing with the limitations of the body.

Koans, using consciousness to go beyond consciousness; the path which can be spoken is not the true path.

Our practice includes everyone's else practice; other people's fulfillment is our fulfillment.

Buddha's 'a good place for a sanctuary'; karma is a place to build a sanctuary; extending out practice outside the zendo; expressing from a place before you were born;

Bodhisattvas vow to teach. Lay bodhisatta and priest bodhisattvas are both students and teachers of the dharma.