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[2 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Dharma Talk by John Tarrant

Dharma talk and meditation on Koan Practice by Roshi John Tarrant
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[23 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Dharma Talk- Melissa Blacker on the Many Arms of Quan Yin

Guiding teacher, Melissa Myozen Blacker Sensei talks about the nature, and texture of compassion, using Case 89 of the Blue Cliff Record.  [Download MP3]
Yunyan asked Daowu: “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion [Kannon] 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.”
Yunyan said: “I understand.”
Daowu said: “How do you understand it?”
Yunyan said: “All over the body are hands and eyes.”
Daowu said: “What you said is all right, but it’s only eighty percent of …

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[24 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | ]

A dharma talk by Ken Rivard
1-26-2009 at Hank
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[24 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | ]

A Teisho by David Rynick Sensei (1-19-2008 at Hank)
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[23 Dec 2008 | Comments Off | ]
Darkness and Light (MP3)

Melissa Myozen Blacker Sensei, One of Boundless Way Zen’s guiding teachers held dokusan (teacher interviews) this evening, and gave this short talk afterward, about this time of year, the holidays, sitting in the dark and reaching for the light
darkness-and-light.mp3

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[25 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Talk by guiding teacher David Rynick  Link here

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[22 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]
The Buddhist Path of Compassion: The Pure Land Way (MP3)

A Dharma talk by Mark Unno. (recorded at Hank Sept 21, 2008) MP3 download
Mark Unno is an associate professor of Japanese Buddhism at the University of Oregon and is author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, and editor, translator, and contributor to Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures, as well as the author of many articles on Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and comparative religion. He is an ordained priest in the Shin Buddhist tradition of Nishi Honganji, has practiced with both Rinzai and Soto Zen masters. He …

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[2 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | ]

The BoundlessWayZen.org website has an archive of some of our leading teacher’s dharma talks, or teishos, as well as a a developing archive of talks by our Dharma ancestor John Tarrent Roshi
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