Collection of Dharma Talks given by Teshin Sweger at the North Carolina Zen Center info@nczencenter.org
Case 56 of the Book of Equanimity由North Carolina Zen Center
The Buddha's Enlightenment - Closing The Distance by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Guest Teacher: Shana Smith by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
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When It Is Cold, the Cold Kills You. When It Is Hot, the Heat Kills You by North Carolina Zen Center由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.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
This track serves as an introduction to the following two talks, each touching on the four Bodhisattva Vows.由North Carolina Zen Center
A Zen View Of Abortion by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
The Four Vows, part 2 by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
The Four Vows, part 1 by North Carolina Zen Center由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.由North Carolina Zen Center
Case 19 of the Blue Cliff Record: Gutei's One Finger由North Carolina Zen Center
Reflections On Spring 2021 by North Carolina Zen Center由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.由North Carolina Zen Center
The first Dharma talk of 2021 regarding impermanence and change.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
An exploration of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a teaching of the Buddha.由North Carolina Zen Center
Using a classic koan from the Zen tradition, Teshin Sensei explores the idea of individual and collective karma--the law of cause and effect.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
In this Dharma Talk Teshin talks about the importance of commitment in practice.由North Carolina Zen Center
Person Of 3 Disabilities by North Carolina Zen Center由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.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
Practice around the Holidays (2020) by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Aliens, Climate Change, and the Bodhisattva Path by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Tending the Field of Practice by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Anti-Fragile by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Wayfinding by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Student-Teacher Relationship Part 2 by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Some thoughts on how Zen views the Student/Teacher relationship.由North Carolina Zen Center
Aspiring To Something Greater by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Buddha's Birth by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
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Every Day Is A Good Day by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Working With Emotional Pain by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Working With Physical Pain by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Lineage-The Buddha Holds Up a Flower by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Dogen's Plum Blossoms by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
What It Means To Become A Buddhist by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
April Fool's Day and Joshu's Why Don't You Quote It Fully by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Intellectual Appropriation Of Practice and Luzu Faces The Wall by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
The Black Box of Zen Practice by North Carolina Zen Center由North Carolina Zen Center
Zen Metta由North Carolina Zen Center
The CaseMaster 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 CommentaryIf you can immediately see through this, your eye will be like a shooting star, your spiritual activity like a flash of lightning.*…
From Day 2 of the Winter 2018 Sesshin.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
An in depth look at the Eight aspects of the Path.由North Carolina Zen Center
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.由North Carolina Zen Center
This dharma takes up Case 1 of the Book of Serenity.由North Carolina Zen Center
In this Dharma talk we take a look at the basis for morality in Zen and more specifically at the Buddhist Precepts.由North Carolina Zen Center