Windhorse Zen Community

A Grain of Sand

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:43:00 GMT

A Grain of Sand - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given during an all-day sitting in March 2009 at our zendo in the North Carolina Mountains. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at our new email address windhorsezen@windhorsezen.org. Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

34 A Spirit of Inquiry, Don’t Assume Anything!

windhorse@windhorsezen.org — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:19:00 GMT

A Spirit of Inquiry, Don’t Assume Anything!- Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in March 2009 at our zendo in the North Carolina Mountains. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at our new email address windhorsezen@windhorsezen.org. Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

A Day of Zazen, Fayan’s Teaching

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT

33 A Day of Zazen, Fayan’s Teachings - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in January 2009, during an all-day sitting at our zendo in the North Carolina Mountains. Sunya Sensei talks about Master Fayan (known as Hogen in Japanese). Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Learning and Unlearning

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT

32 Learning and Unlearning - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in September 2008 during the regular Sunday sitting. You can hear the Blue Jays and Carolina wrens that live in the woods near the zendo adding their commentary throughout. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

31 Darkness and Light

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:57:00 GMT

31 Darkness and Light - Today’s teisho by Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in December of 2007 during the regular Sunday sitting, at the time of the winter solstice. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

The Seventh Precept

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 04:30:00 GMT

30 The Seventh Precept - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in November of 2008 during the regular Sunday sitting. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Learning Unlearning

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:45:00 GMT

29 Learning Unlearning - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given on the 7th of September, 2008 during the regular Sunday sitting. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

The Power of Meditation

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:27:00 GMT

The Power of Meditation - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given at our regular Sunday sitting, in June of 2008. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Nonviolence

windhorsezen@att.net — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:12:00 GMT

27 Nonviolence - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given at our regular Sunday sitting, on June 8th, 2008. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Lectern Free!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Lectern Free! Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given at sesshin in August of 2008. Thanks for your continued interest in these podcasts. Send us an email at windhorsezen@att.net Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Chosha’s Spring Walk

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Chosha’s Spring Walk- Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given May 4th, 2008. The koan discussed is Chosha goes for a Walk, case #36 in the book of koans, The Blue Cliff Record. There is a very helpful brief introduction to koans that we have copied out and used for the preceding podcast. We have had an excellent response to these podcasts. Please send an email to us at windhorsezen@att.net . Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Koans - A Brief Introduction

Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

An introduction to koans- Sunya Sensei often discusses koans. This brief introduction to koans is taken from a longer teisho, Chosha’s Spring Walk that will follow this podcast. Roshi Kapleau, our teacher’s teacher, said in his book The Three Pillars of Zen, that a koan is "a formulation, in baffling language, pointing to ultimate truth." A well-known example is "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" Sunya sensei refers to the most widely used initial koan in our practice is Joshu’s Mu. Zen teaches us that all things have Buddha nature. The koan goes, "A monk asked Joshu, Does a dog have Buddha Nature?" Joshu replies "Mu" , which means "no". The student is asked to demonstrate what is mu. Sunya Sensei refers to the dokusan room. Part of our practice is the formal private interview with the teacher, dokusan, during which the student is asked to demonstrate understanding of the koan.

Memorial Day and Nonviolence

Sun, 25 May 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Memorial Day and Nonviolence - Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given on the Memorial Day weekend, May 25th 2008. How do we best honor our war dead? How do we deal with the violence within us? What does Buddhist practice tell us about self and other? Please send an email to us at windhorsezen@att.net . Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. The Windhorse Zen Community has meditation open to the public, and has a residential zen training program. To learn more, and to help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Nansen’s Dreams and Waking

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given in November of 2007. This is part two of a two part Teisho on the Koan "Nansen’s It Is Like a Dream" We do not have part one due to a technical problem, but this teisho stands well on its own. When first posted, this podcast was incomplete. It is now the entire teisho. My apologies for the technical problems. Hopefully they are all solved. Your emails are important to us, so please send an email to us at windhorsezen@att.net . Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening and To help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

The New Flute

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:25:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given on the fifth day of a seven day sesshin given in December of 2004
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There Is No Waiting

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:35:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is entitled "There is no Waiting" as from a teisho given in May of 2005. Please send your comments or questions to us at windhorsezen@att.net and see our website, www.windhorsezen.org

Put Down Your Buckets

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:11:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Senei is entitled "Put Down Your Buckets". It is from an all day sitting given in January 2007.
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Mind Like Water

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:15:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sense is entitled "Mind Like Water". It is from an all-day sitting given in March of 2007.
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The Universe Will Not Abandon You

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:43:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sense is entitled "The Universe Will Not Abandon You". It is from a sesshin, an intensive meditation retreat, given in June 2005.
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100% Affirmation

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:17:00 GMT

100% Affirmation
Today’s Teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is entitled 100% Affirmation. It is from a sesshin given in October of 2004.
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The Mystery of Flowers

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:04:00 GMT

The Mystery of Flowers
Today’s Teisho, The Mystery of Flowers, is from a Father’s Day teisho given by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei. There are some problems with the audio in this podcast!
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Annie Dillard, What If?

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:14:00 GMT

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given during sesshin, an intensive meditation retreat. We’d like to hear from our listeners! Please send an email to us at windhorsezen@att.net . Let us know who you are, ask questions, just let us know you’re listening. To help support our podcasts and the work of the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Endless Dimension, Universal Mind

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Engaged Practice - Keep Waking Up

Wed, 23 May 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Engaged Practice: Keep Waking Up

Today’s teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei is from a talk given May 16th, 2004.
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Mother’s Day 2007

Tue, 15 May 2007 02:35:00 GMT

Sunya Kjolhede Sensei discusses Mother’s Day. For questions about the Windhorse Zen Community, or to help support these podcasts, see our website, www.windhorsezen.org

The Ten Fools

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:23:00 GMT

The Ten Fools
This teisho is from the last day of a seven day intensive meditation retreat given in August of 2004. For more information on the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website www.windhorsezen.org

Relationships

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:44:00 GMT

Sunya sensei discusses relationships in this teisho from April 11th, 2004.
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The Dog Who Saved Cats

Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:21:00 GMT

The Dog Who Saved Cats Sunya sensei discusses animals, their relationship to humans, and what they have to teach us in this teisho given in July of 2006. For more information on the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org.

The Thousand Arms of Kannon

Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:30:00 GMT

The Thousand Arms of Kannon
Who is Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion? Sunya sensei addresses Kannon and the place of compassion in the practice of zen in today’s teisho, from a dharma talk given on July 23rd, 2006. For more information on the Windhorse Zen Community, see our website at www.windhorsezen.org

Gratitude

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:18:00 GMT

Sunya Sensei discusses gratitude in a teisho given on November 30th, 2005, just after Thanksgiving Day.
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Why Are We Practicing?

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:22:00 GMT

Why do we practice zen? Sunya Sensei addresses this topic in this week’s podcast.

War and Peace and Practice

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:00:00 GMT

A dharma talk by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei given on the anniversary of the third year of the war in Iraq.

Questioning in Zen

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:09:00 GMT

Sunya Sensei discusses the questioning mind in zen practice in a talk given in the Sunday teisho on March 5th, 2006 at the Panther Branch residence of the Windhorse Zen Community. For more information see our website at www.windhorse.org

The Fall of Icarus

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:37:00 GMT

A Dharma Talk given by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei on 9 April 2006 at Panther Branch, the residence of the Windhorse Zen Community.
In this podcast, Sunya Sensei refers to sesshin. Sesshin is an intensive meditation retreat.
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Wabi Sabi

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:14:00 GMT

A Dharma Talk given by Sunya Kjolhede Sensei on 4 June 2006 at Panther Branch, the residence of the Windhorse Zen Community.
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