Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
NEW!
Dharma Centre

We have just launched our online Dharma Centre. All are welcome...

Join our Community!

Donate

The virtue of generosity, charity or giving. Your donations are welcomed.

Learn more

The Story of Sanakavasa | Part 2

The way to Buddhahood
"In this lump of red flesh there is one who goes in and out of the sense gates a thousand times a day. Do you know him?”

How to Sit Zazen (meditation)

Fundamentals of Zen
An instructional video on how to achieve the correct posture and perform the correct mudras for Rinzai Zen meditation, finishing with instructions on how to count the breath.

Monkey | Chapter 2

Stories retold
Monkey learns the secrets of immortality from a Daoist mystic, but how long will his teacher’s patience last?
Series

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra

Stories Retold
The Zen Gateway re-tells this dream like sutra for the modern reader.

Extract | The Year of my Life; A translation of Issa’s Oraga Haru

Book Extracts
Issa was not only a Buddhist priest but also one of Japan’s greatest Haiku poets. His verses featured in this extract are quite mysterious…

Latest Articles

Audio Talks

The Knower, The God of Buddhism

Bankei’s ‘Unborn’

Records of the Transmission of the Lamp Vol. 2: Da'an's exchange with...

Practice

The Story of Sanakavasa | Part 2

The way to Buddhahood
"In this lump of red flesh there is one who goes in and out of the sense gates a thousand times a day. Do you know him?”

Tighten­­ing the Belt

Exercises in Mindfulness
Learn how to use the small, everyday things, to train a special kind of strength cultivated in Zen practice.

What is Forest Bathing?

Exercises in Mindfulness
Relieve stress, reconnect with nature and also ‘The Way’ in this healing practice

The Story of Sanakavasa | Part I

The way to Buddhahood 
What is the ‘great comfort’ that causes the remarkable transformation of the heart and how do we come to realise it? 

Cultivating being in the body and working with the emotional household

Exercises in Mindfulness
To create the mind-body connection we have to empty the heart, to empty the heart we need to fully come into the body.

Magazine

Extract | The Year of my Life; A translation of Issa’s Oraga Haru

Book Extracts
Issa was not only a Buddhist priest but also one of Japan’s greatest Haiku poets. His verses featured in this extract are quite mysterious…

Monkey | Chapter 2

Stories retold
Monkey learns the secrets of immortality from a Daoist mystic, but how long will his teacher’s patience last?

Monkey | Chapter 1

Stories retold
A precocious monkey seeks out the secrets to immortality in this retelling of the Chinese classic Journey to the West.

Extract | The Eye and Treasury of the True Law by Dōgen Zenji

Book Extracts
Zen Master Dōgen Zenji on the correct form and practice for sitting Zazen (meditation).

Introduction to the Stories of Monkey - With illustrations by...

Stories Retold
Born from a rock, possessing magical powers to rival the Gods and imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, the Character of Monkey has been the subject of TV shows, films and Operas.

Buddhism

Scheme of the Eightfold-Consciousness

Teachings from the Yogacara School
In this part we take a look at the different types of consciousness that affect our day to day (and past) lives.

Dhammapada Verse 19

Verses from the Dhammapada
How can knowledge become an obstacle to awakening?

The Three Bodies of the Buddha

Teachings from the Yogacara School
Do we really have more than one body? We take a look at what the Yogacara school has to say on the matter.

A Vision of the Universe: Abhirati and the Tathagata Akshobhya

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
If looking for the Buddha nature is impossible then how do we find it?

Sermon on the Destructible and the Indestructible

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
In this episode, the Buddha explains how Bodhisattvas can live fully in the worlds of suffering and death, without suffering themselves.

This week in the Dharma Centre...

We have just launched our online community to complement The Zen Gateway online resource and magazine.

Coming Thursday

Live streamed Zazen meditation Thursday 6th October 2022

Thursday, October 6th

19:00 - 20:00 GMT

You might like to light a candle and some incense.

Martin Goodson

Martin Goodson

Visit our Dharma Centre