North Carolina Zen Center

In this talk from our October 2023 Sesshin, Teshin Roshi explores the second of 4 postures outlined by the Buddha and the famous koan: The Oak Tree In the Garden.

Arguing With Reality (Nansen Kills The Cat) by North Carolina Zen Center

The Buddha's Journey - How Is It Relevant? by North Carolina Zen Center

The Importance Of Leaving Home by North Carolina Zen Center

Through a classic koan, Teshin Roshi explores ways to cultivate gratitude and connect with the original intention of Thanksgiving.

Teshin Roshi reflects on James Ford Roshi's visit and explores what a matured practice looks like using Case 14 of the Book of Equanimity.

Teshin Roshi shares about his recent sabbatical and explores the wisdom of stepping back in order to step into our lives.

During our annual Bodhidharma Day ceremony we explore the famous interchange between the Emperor of China and Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China.

Guest Speaker: Roshi Meido Moore, Three Important Foundations of Zen by North Carolina Zen Center

Zazen as a Yogic Practice by North Carolina Zen Center

During a recent talk in our Summer Guest Speaker Series, Roshi Dosho Port and Sensei Tetsugan Zummach told a moving story about one practitioner’s experience with the koan Mu.

Roshi James Ford, Guest Speaker by North Carolina Zen Center

Koshin Chris Cain, Guest Speaker by North Carolina Zen Center

The Paramita of Patience by North Carolina Zen Center

Jesus, Buddha And The Tools Of Love by North Carolina Zen Center

All Sounds are the Sounds of the Buddha by North Carolina Zen Center

It Is Your Mind That Moves by North Carolina Zen Center

Facing Ourselves by North Carolina Zen Center

For the Precepts Class. Precepts 6 and 7.

Case 56 of the Book of Equanimity

The Buddha's Enlightenment - Closing The Distance by North Carolina Zen Center

Guest Teacher: Shana Smith by 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.

Practice around the Holidays (2020) by North Carolina Zen Center

Aliens, Climate Change, and the Bodhisattva Path by North Carolina Zen Center

Tending the Field of Practice by North Carolina Zen Center

Anti-Fragile by North Carolina Zen Center

Wayfinding by North Carolina Zen Center

Student-Teacher Relationship Part 2 by North Carolina Zen Center

Some thoughts on how Zen views the Student/Teacher relationship.

Aspiring To Something Greater by North Carolina Zen Center

Buddha's Birth by North Carolina Zen Center

True Self is No-Self by North Carolina Zen Center

Every Day Is A Good Day by North Carolina Zen Center

Working With Emotional Pain by North Carolina Zen Center

Working With Physical Pain by North Carolina Zen Center

Lineage-The Buddha Holds Up a Flower by North Carolina Zen Center

Dogen's Plum Blossoms by North Carolina Zen Center

What It Means To Become A Buddhist by North Carolina Zen Center

April Fool's Day and Joshu's Why Don't You Quote It Fully by North Carolina Zen Center

Intellectual Appropriation Of Practice and Luzu Faces The Wall by North Carolina Zen Center

The Black Box of Zen Practice by North Carolina Zen Center

Zen Metta

The Case Master Gettan said to a monk, “Keichu [the first wheelmaker in ancient China] made a cart whose wheels had a hundred spokes. If you took off the wheels and removed the axle, then what would it be?” The Commentary If you can immediately see through this, your eye will be like a shooting star, your spiritual activity like a flash of lightning. *The Verse When a wheel spins rapidly even a master cannot follow it. It moves in all directions above and below, north, south, east, and west.

From Day 2 of the Winter 2018 Sesshin.

Is the enlightened person subject to cause and effect? Be careful...if you answer incorrectly you'll be reborn as a fox for 500 lives! This is from Day 1 of the Winter 2018 Sesshin.

An in depth look at the Eight aspects of the Path.

This talk encourages us to continually see that we can reinvent ourselves just as Buddhism has as it has time and time again as it moves from culture to culture.

This dharma takes up Case 1 of the Book of Serenity.

In this Dharma talk we take a look at the basis for morality in Zen and more specifically at the Buddhist Precepts.

In this talk and dharma discussion, we take up how to stay grounded during the holiday season.

In this talk from our Fall sesshin, we explore Case 35 of the Mumonkan: Chien and Her Soul Are Separated.

A Zen retreat, traditionally called a sesshin, is not a retreat at all. It is a search. In this talk we explore the nature of searching and how to practice during sesshin.

Exploring Case 40 from the Blue cliff Record with an emphasis on how technology is shaping our thoughts and practice.

This Dharma talk and discussion explores ways to work with anger. The talk is 32 min. with a 15 min discussion at the end.

What is Koan Practice?

What is Buddhist Practice? Is it more than just our individual meditation practice?

Case #20 Book of Equanimity: Not Knowing is Most Intimate

Some thoughts on working with patience in meditation practice and life.