North Carolina Zen Center

When It Is Cold, the Cold Kills You. When It Is Hot, the Heat Kills You by North Carolina Zen Center

In this talk, guest speaker and friend to the Center James Myoun Ford, Roshi offers his thoughts on Case 29 in the Blue Cliff Record.

In this talk, Sangha member Sheldon Clark reflects on the book, How to Cook Your Life and the Zen chant Affirming Faith in Mind. Using direct quotations from both texts, Sheldon looks at difficult personal and cultural interactions, pulling our ideas which offer guidance from a Zen perspective.

This track serves as an introduction to the following two talks, each touching on the four Bodhisattva Vows.

A Zen View Of Abortion by North Carolina Zen Center

The Four Vows, part 2 by North Carolina Zen Center

The Four Vows, part 1 by North Carolina Zen Center

How do we work on relationships? Our meditation practice holds the key. How do we work on our meditation practice? Our relationships hold the key.

Case 19 of the Blue Cliff Record: Gutei's One Finger

Reflections On Spring 2021 by North Carolina Zen Center

A monk asked Jinguing, “I am breaking out; I ask the teacher to break in.”Jinquing said, “Can you live or not?” The monk said, “If I weren’t alive, I’d be laughed at by people.” Jinquing said, “You too are a man in the weeds.

The first Dharma talk of 2021 regarding impermanence and change.

Using the classic Buddhist framework of the Six Realms, Teshin Sensei explores how to work with various mind states. This talks was given in 2018.

An exploration of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a teaching of the Buddha.

Using a classic koan from the Zen tradition, Teshin Sensei explores the idea of individual and collective karma--the law of cause and effect.

A Dharma Talk given in 2018. This talk uses a classic koan to explore how to live less unconsciously but rather with more awareness and presence. To see what is always present.

In this Dharma Talk Teshin talks about the importance of commitment in practice.

Person Of 3 Disabilities by North Carolina Zen Center

Using a classic case from the Book Of Serenity, we look at the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the thin veneer of society.

In this Dharma talk we explore a traditional koan from the Blue Cliff Record. Teshin begins by talking about the two great practices of our tradition, just sitting and koan practice.